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It is difficult to imagine that the age of the progress, education, decolonization, and revolutionary breakthrough in the international protection of human rights has altogether avoided the vicious minds of perpetrators of these new crimes against the humanity, Chief of Staff of the President’s Office Vigen Sargsyan said at the Aurora Dialogues held within the scope the Second Global Forum Against the Crime of Genocide happening in Yerevan on April 23.

“For us in Armenian that is particularly a painful topic because many of those who fled to Armenia to find a refuge from ISIS horrors in Syria and Iraq are children and grandchildren of those who marched that same Syrian desert escaping the Armenian Genocide a century ago,” Sargsyan stated adding: “When one sees those similarities in the refugee marches then and now on can only ask how long is this going to continue.”

Sargsyan reflected on the Second Global Forum Against the Crime of Genocide suggesting that is a platform for the nations suffered from genocides in order to raise their voice.

«The forum concentrates not only on the Armenian Genocide but also Genocides in general. We responded to the major crisis of the refugees and dedicate this forum to living witnesses of the Genocide. These people as much as we speak about them do not have sufficient protection in the international law and in practice after they did faced that difficult moment of their lives and when they need to really revive after that crime and that tragedy,” Sargsyan noted.