On April 21 a khachkar monument will be placed in Bergen, Norway, dedicated to Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian polar explorer, scientist, diplomat and humanist, Nobel Peace Prize in 1922, and the 1915 Armenian Genocide victims. Independent French journalist Jean Eckiyan told the PanARMENIAN.Net corespondent, in his book "Armenia and the Near East" published in 1923, Fridtjof Nansen one wrote, "The massacres that started in 1915 have nothing to compare with the history of mankind. The massacres by Abdul Hamid are minor in comparison to what today's Turks have done. Woe to the Armenians, that they were ever drawn into European politics! It would have been better for them if the name of Armenia had never been uttered by any European diplomatist." The initiative of placing the khachkar comes from the Armenian Society of Kaunas, a District in Lithuania.