Armenian students pay tribute to Dink and others
Students of Armenian higher educational establishments today held a march to the Tsitsernakaberd Memorial to pay tribute to the innocent victims of the Baku pogroms that took place on January 19, 1990 and the editor-in-chief of the Istanbul-based Agos daily, Hrant Dink, who was killed in 2007.
"We came here to say "no" to genocides, massacres and violence. We cannot exclude repetition of similar crimes as long as the international community has condemned and recognized them as genocide," said Gevorg Melkonyan, Chairman of the Association of Young University Colleagues NGO.
The students are going to invite their Diaspora friends to join their initiative.
"We have already met Armenian students of Diaspora and agreed to give a proper response to the Turkish and Azeri propaganda," said Gevorg Melkonyan.
The first blow will be addressed to the Azerbaijani community of Russia, which said on January 18 that the Congress of Azerbaijanis in Russia is going to refute Armenian "genocide" claims.
"Azerbaijan seeks to change Russia's opinion about Armenia and its people and create its own history through distortion of historic facts," Melkonyan concluded.
