In Moscow, UAR places banners Day of Remembrance of Victims of  Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Empire

ArmInfo.  In anticipation of the events dedicated to the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire, held by the Union of Armenians of Russia, the UAR placed thematic banners all over Moscow, recalling one of the most brutal crimes of the 20th century. This was  reported by the press service of the UAR.

110 years ago, Ottoman Turkey exterminated 1.5 million Armenians  living in the country at that time, the same number of people  scattered around the world fleeing the genocide. Thousands of  Armenian manuscripts, hundreds of historical and architectural  monuments were destroyed, more than 60 Armenian cities and 2.5  thousand villages were burned.

On April 24, 1965, demonstrations were organized in Soviet Armenia  demanding recognition of the Armenian Genocide. Thus, the wall of  silence created around this issue was destroyed. In 2015, the  Armenian Apostolic Church canonized the victims of the Genocide.

The Armenian Genocide has been recognized and condemned by many  countries and influential international organizations. The first to  officially condemn the mass killings of Armenians was the Parliament  of Uruguay (1965). The extermination of Armenians was officially  recognized as genocide (according to international law[177]) and also  condemned by France (1998, 2000, 2001, 2006, 2012, Belgium, the  Netherlands, Switzerland - National Council (lower house of  parliament), Sweden, Russia (1995), Poland, Lebanon (2000), Italy,  Lithuania, Greece, Slovakia, Cyprus, Argentina (2 laws, 5  resolutions), Venezuela, Chile, Canada (1996, 2002, 2004), Vatican,  Bolivia (2014), Austria (2015), Luxembourg (2015), Brazil (2015),  Paraguay (2015), Germany (2016), Czech Republic (2017), Portugal  (2019), USA (2019), Latvia.

The Armenian Genocide has been recognized by the European Parliament  (1987, 2000, 2002, 2005, 2015), the South American Parliamentary  Coalition (Mercosur), the UN Sub-Commission on Prevention of  Discrimination and Protection of Minorities, and the Latin American  Parliament (2015). Recognition of the Armenian Genocide is not  officially a prerequisite for Turkey's accession to the EU, but some  authors believe that Turkey will have to do so on its way to EU  membership.

The Turkish Republic spends significant funds on PR campaigns to deny  it and donates to universities that ensure the credibility of the  Turkish position. Whenever the recognition of the genocide is  discussed by parliaments or governments of different countries,  Turkey threatens them with diplomatic and trade sanctions and  reprisals against its own minorities. In order to erase traces of the  physical presence of Armenians on Turkish territory, Armenian  architectural monuments are systematically destroyed in the country.

The arguments of the deniers are usually modifications of one of the  following statements: there was never a mass killing of Armenians in  the Ottoman Empire; the deaths of Armenians occurred through  carelessness from hunger and disease during expulsion from the war  zone; there was no deliberate policy on the part of the Young Turks  to exterminate Armenians; the deaths of Armenians were a consequence  of the civil war in the Ottoman Empire, as a result of which many  Turks also died.