YEREVAN. – The events, which took place between 1988 and 1994 during the Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) War, are genocide, too. 

Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Minister of Justice, Ararat Danielyan, stated the aforesaid during the Pan-Armenian Conference of Lawyers, which is held in Armenia’s capital city Yerevan.

“These events likewise need to be qualified as a crime against humanity, and the country that orchestrated them must answer before Armenia for what it has done, just as Turkey [must answer for] the genocide of 1915-1923,” Danielyan said.     

In his turn, Armenia’s Justice Minister Hrayr Tovmasyan noted that official Yerevan has not yet exhausted all its opportunities for petitioning to international courts. 

“We need to carefully weigh the kind of opportunities we have in this respect, and to continue the efforts in the international arena to achieve the formal condemnation of the crimes of Ottoman Turkey,” Tovmasyan stressed.