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YEREVAN. – Reliable documents indicating the Armenian Genocide took place in the Ottoman Empire in 1915 are preserved in the Armenian National Archive, archive’s director Amatuni Virabyan told the journalists on Wednesday.

The documents record stories of 10,000 eyewitnesses of the bloody events in the Ottoman Empire dating to 1914-1915. There are also stories of the eyewitnesses recorded in 1916 describing events in 700 villages of Western Armenia.

Virabyan said the archive will publish three volumes in 2015 based on these records. Each book will tell about the fate of residents of Van, Bitlis and Erzrum regions.

It will be published in Armenian, English, German, French and Russian languages.

Besides there are 2000 documents recorded based on the reports of the Russian soldiers and Armenian volunteers. Digital copies of the documents will appear on the Internet by 2015.  

The lists of Armenian Genocide victims will be drawn up as well.

 

 

 

 

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