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    INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN ARMENIA DEDICATED TO THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE MASSACRES IN ADANA

    armradio.am
    06.02.2009 16:06

    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.

    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.

    In 1908, the Young Turkish revolution brought some hope for change
    for the Empire's Christian minorities. However, the initial euphoria
    and hopes for equal rights for Muslims and Christians were dashed in
    brutal slaughtering of Armenian population in Cilicia and its center
    Adana. This massacre revived the fears of Christian minorities,
    particularly of Armenians towards the traditional Ottoman policy
    against them.

    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=2 0Armenians 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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