April 24 victims of the Armenian Genocide in Turkey were commemorated in Rostov-on-Don. At noon flowers and wreaths were laid to the Khachkar memorial, set next to St. Karapet church, reported the Yerkramas, the newspaper of Armenians of Russia. St. Karapet church building was not able to accommodate all those gathered. Unfortunately, it is not designed for a mass flow of people and there were really many. Thus the main part of the liturgy in the memory of the innocent victims was held next to the Khachkar. Armenia’s Consul General to the Southern Federal District Ararat Gomstian was present at the event. A memorial evening of victims of the Armenian Genocide in Turkey was also held in Surb Khach Temple, where prayers, poems and evidence of the descendants of the witnesses of the Genocide in 1915-1922 were heard. The main events marking the 90-th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide had been held earlier. Thus, a round table sitting titled “NO TO GENOCIDE, NO TO WAR, NO TO TERROR” was held April 18. Armenian Genocide – a Bloody Page in Human History seminar was held in Surb Khach museum monastery April 23. The fact that April 16 a large article titled Genocide Should not be Forgotten was published in Academy scientific and education weekly of the South of Russia. In the article Doctor of Juridical Sciences, Professors Yu. Prusakov and L. Akopov provide convincing proofs that it is inadmissible to forget the Armenian Genocide in Turkey as a crime against humanity according to the international law, as well as the need of its denunciation by all UN member states, including Turkey. The latter should not be admitted to the EU without the acknowledgement and censure of the crimes in its history – just like the FRG acted toward the Holocaust victims.
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