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    INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE DEDICATED TO THE ADANA MASSACRE 1909 TO BE HELD IN YEREVAN

    ArmInfo
    2009-04-17 14:25:00

    The Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute organizes an international
    conference on April 20-21, 2009 dedicated to the centennial anniversary
    of the Armenian massacres in Adana district of the Ottoman Empire.

    As the Museum-Institute told ArmInfo, historians from Armenia, Italy,
    Hungary, Austria, France, USA and Sweden specialized on these issues
    will make speeches at the conference. The speakers will have the
    opportunity to present their papers and share their knowledge about
    the massacre in Adana district and in the city of Adana itself in
    spring 1909 in the main reverting on the motives of massacres as well
    as international responses.

    The Adana massacres of April 1909 became a symbolic prelude for the
    state orchestrated and executed policy of genocide against the Armenian
    population of the Ottoman Empire. Ethnical cleansings and large-scale
    massacres were carried out even earlier; during the Hamidian massacres
    in 1894-1896 about 300.000 Armenians were annihilated and evicted.

    The study of Adana massacre reveals several important issues,
    particularly in terms of crime investigation, reparation and
    involvement of Turkish regular army in the massacre. These tragic
    events resonated with the events of the earlier attacks on the
    Armenians and brought back the feeling of the coming catastrophe. The
    Adana massacres heralded a large-scale extermination policy, which was
    implemented shortly after the breakout of the WWI. This resulted in the
    genocide of Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire during 1915-1922,
    and expulsion of several hundred thousand people from their homeland.
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