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Recognition of the Roma Genocide
Recognition, official texts
Roma are not in the state’s official definition of the Holocaust. According to the OSCE report, the Holocaust is defined by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as ‘the attempted murder of the Jewish people by the Nazi Germany regime” (See Education on the Holocaust and on Anti-Semitism, page 68).
Data (camps locations, Remembrance places, measures etc.)
The state has instituted a National Genocide Memorial Day, 24th April, which reportedly incorporates a universal remembrance day.
Every year on January 27, Jewish organizations of Armenia, together with the representatives of the state are organizing a commemoration event near the Holocaust Memorial (situated in the downtown of Yerevan), devoted to the International Holocaust Remembrance day.
In his speeches on different occasions President of Armenia is touching the issue of Holocaust.
There is no reference to the Holocaust in the Genocide Memorial Museum in Yerevan. There is only a reference to Hitler’s speech at Obersalzburg on August 22, 1939, because there he used the following statement: “Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?”
Specialised institution, commission, research centre etc., dealing with this issue
According to the available information, there is no specialised institution, commission or research centre specifically dealing with the issue of the Roma Genocide.
Genocide Memorial Museum in Yerevan
Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Yerevan
Official initiatives (campaigns, actions, projects, commemoration days, museums)
The 24th April is the National Genocide Memorial Day in Armenia.