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On March 27, at the invitation of Armenian National Assembly Deputy Speaker Eduard Sharmazanov, representatives of the Yezidi community in Armenia Aziz Tamoyan, Boris Tamoyan, Hamlet Smoyan, Zuzan Khuboyan, Rustam Bakoyan, Mame Amiryan, Garnik Asatryan, Rzgan Shamoyan, Amo Sharoyan, Khdr Tamoyan and Rashid Shamoyan visited the National Assembly, the press service of National Assembly reports.

The theme of the meeting was the issue of the condemnation of crimes against different nations.

The NA Deputy Speaker once again condemned the violence committed against the Yezidis in the Northern Iraq several months ago, and reminded the attendees that Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan in his speech from the UN high rostrum spoke about those violations and condemned them.

At the meeting, particularly, an agreement was reached to organize an exhibition of documents, articles and photos showing the violence committed against the Yezidis in the Northern Iraq at the Armenian National Assembly in the near future. At the same time, a book presentation, the printing of which was done thanks to the Armenian President’s grant, will be held. The book with facts presents the violence that occurred several months ago in the Northern Iraq.

The issue of violence committed against the Yezidis in the Ottoman Turkey was also debated. The NA Deputy Speaker said that the meeting of the International Association of Genocide Scholars will be held in Yerevan in July. He proposed the members of the Yezidi community to submit the facts for the debate of that structure.

One of the guests, Boris Tamoyan, thanked the Deputy Speaker for the invitation and said that today many documentary materials are already collected, which present the violence committed against the Yezidi people in the Ottoman Empire.

The NA Deputy Speaker offered the attendees to create a group which will continue to collect materials and present them to the International Association of Genocide Scholars.