Armenian National Archive Possesses 12,000 Documents on the Armenian Genocide

Posted by admin on Apr 21, 2009

12,000 documents on the Armenian Genocide are kept in the National Archive of Armenia. Director of the Armenian National Archive Amatuni Virabyan said to reporters today that in reality their number is much larger, and their registration still continues.

According to Amatuni Virabyan, four types of documents are kept in the Archive. The first group includes the articles from Tbilisi based “Mshak” newspaper of 1916.

The next group includes the documents the church possessed. Since there was no statehood then, but there was the church that had substituted the state for centuries, the Catholicos f All Armenians was receiving letters from different sites of the world. The letters provide information about the massacre of the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire, about the number of victims and emigrants.

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