ARMENIAN GENOCIDE: SUCH CRIMES LEAVE TRACE IN HISTORY

PanARMENIAN.Net - "One of the most outrageous crimes of the 20-th century - the extermination of the Armenian population of Turkey - was committed 90 years ago. Exiles and mass killings of Armenians in their historic homeland started even in the 19-the century under the sultan regime. The decisions on the extermination of the Armenian people were made by the Turkish government in Istanbul. The killings were perpetrated by the Turkish troops, gendarmenie, gangs of robbers and murderers. 1.5 million Armenians, mostly children, women and the aged fell victims to the crime. Thousands of people had to seek for shelter in foreign states. The governments of the European states did not exert a slightest effort to stop the carnage. Even after the end of the First World War the crimes against Armenians were not condemned. The governments of nationalists bent every effort to cover up the crime and falsify the historic facts. In 1918-1921 the next grouping of Turkish "revolutionaries" tried to raze Armenia to the ground while the Lenin government in 1921 agreed to cede the "cleansed" Armenian lands. The crimes committed with such cynicism cannot disappear without a trace. The Armenian Genocide gave way to the other grave crimes of the 20-the century - the Holocaust, Stalin deportations, the extermination of the pick of the Polish army and intellectuals in Katyn and other places, mass killings in Cambodia, Rwanda and ethnic cleansing in Yugoslavia. Yabloko feels solidarity with the Armenian people. We bend our heads to commemorate the innocent victims of the Genocide. We are convinced that any government that perpetrates genocide is criminal. Only preventing such crimes the international community can protect the future of our planet", the statement adopted by the Bureau of the Russian Democratic Party of Yabloko on the occasion of the Armenian Genocide 90-th anniversary says.