Virtual Armenian Genocide Museum launched

YEREVAN, April 22. / ARKA /. A U.S. Memco Inc. has created a virtual Armenian Genocide Museum, dedicating it to the 98th anniversary of the first genocide in the past century. Anna Petrosyan, a press officer for the company, said the virtual museum is the present of the company to the Museum of Genocide in Yerevan.

The virtual museum gives visitors opportunity to take a tour,   see photographs and other evidence of the Armenian Genocide. They can also visit Tsitsernakaberd Memorial and  lay flowers at the eternal flame.

To make the tour visitors need only to log to http://www.genocide-museum.am and download the proposed application. The  visitors can listen to music played by Komitas quartet. According to  Memco Inc. head, Karen Melikian, the idea of ​​creating a virtual Genocide museum came to him when  living in the United States, he could not attend every year the Tsitsernakaberd Genocide Memorial in Yerevan.

The Armenian Genocide was the first genocide committed in the XX century. It  was  recognized by  Russia, Germany, France, Netherlands, Vatican, Lithuania, Slovakia, Sweden, Venezuela, Lebanon, France,  42  U.S. states, as well as by the parliaments of Greece, Cyprus, Argentina, Belgium, National Council of Switzerland, Canada,  Poland, Italy, other countries as well as the  European Parliament, the World Council of Churches. -0-