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the area of demanding reparations. We must move the
struggle to the arena of international law, we should
be ready to approach international structures which
will examine the Armenian Genocide and subject the
guilty party—the Turkish state—to certain penalties.
We should focus our efforts in this direction, because
genocide is a crime that does not have a statute of
limitations.
We must use the phrase “telling the world the truth
about the Armenian Genocide.” We are introducing
them to a fact. The Armenian communities of various
countries, the Armenian state, and individuals must
undertake a large amount of work to bring the issue to
the public.
In the area of international history and among
renowned historians, there are already no objections to
the Armenian Genocide, everyone has already accepted
it as a fact. This means that a large amount of academic
work and research has been done in that field over the
past decades. So we have some results, but we must
continue the struggle because we are faced with a very
big issue – not just recognition and condemnation, but
also reparations.

Harutyun Marutyan
Leading Researcher, Modern National Movements Department,
RA NAS Institute of Archeology and Ethnography

For any ethnic or national grouping, the recollection of
a past full of difficulties is not a burden which can be
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