Day of Remembrance of victims of the Yazidi Genocide in Iraqi Sinjar to be marked in Armenia
ArmInfo.In Armenia, annually on August 3, the Day of Remembrance of the victims of the Yazidi Genocide in Iraqi Sinjar will be marked. At a meeting on April 15, the RA National Assembly Commission on Human Rights and Public Relations issued a positive conclusion on the draft amendments to the law "On Holidays and Memorable Dates."
According to the author of the presented document, NA deputy from the ruling Civil Contract faction Rustam Bakoyan, we are talking about preventing the commission of such crimes in the future at the international level and paying tribute to the memory of innocent victims. The German Bundestag has already adopted a corresponding condemning resolution, and Great Britain has done the same. The deputy emphasized that the issue will be discussed at an extraordinary meeting of the National Assembly, which will be held on April 16. It is envisaged that one of the witnesses to the terrible events in Sinjar will speak as part of the discussions.
In turn, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia Paruyr Hovhannisyan noted that the government of the country does not object to the adoption of this document, which corresponds to the position of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia on the prevention of genocides.
The genocide of the Yazidi population in the city of Sinjar in northern Iraq was carried out by the Islamic State group in 2014. It manifested itself in the expulsion of the Yazidis, their massacres, and the abduction of Yazidi women. IS's actions against the Yazidis have become known as the "forced conversion campaign." About 50 thousand Yazidis became refugees, and several thousand more died. Earlier, in 2018, the Armenian parliament recognized the genocide of the Yazidis in Iraq, and in 2015, on the 100th anniversary of the Genocide in the Ottoman Empire, it adopted a resolution recognizing the genocide of the Greeks and Assyrians.