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YEREVAN, JULY 1, ARMENPRESS: As part of the “Common Genocide” project implemented with the support of the RA President’s staff “Public Relations and Information Center” state non-profit organization, series of films of journalist Marina Grigoryan have been translated co-authored by her and NA parliamentarian Larisa Alaverdyan. They are documentary films entitled “Common Genocide” which tell about the 1988-1992 Armenian pogroms and genocide in Azerbaijan and Artsakh. Armenpress news agency spoke with the director of the film, journalist Marina Grigoryan about the films.
- How was the project on “Common Genocide” films born and whom it is intended for?
- We have launched the project since November 2009. The films created till now have been translated into different languages – Russian, French, English, Arabic and have been widely spread outside of Armenia. The first film is dedicated to the Baku pogroms, and the second one to Sumgait. In future films about Maragha, Khojalu and “Koltzo Operatsia” will be shot.
- What sources have you used? Have you included only Armenian archive documents?
- The value of all these films is mainly in their being real, and here not only the facts of the Armenian side are presented but the Azerbaijani, Russian and other archive materials have been used. Film has cadres which were shot by the Azerbaijani state security committee and they prove that the pogroms were committed by the same security bodies headed by Heydar Aliyev.
- How contemporary are these films?
- These films have not lost their up-to-dateness till today too as the Artsakh issue is not solved yet. In the statements of the OSCE Minsk Group we see that these happenings are not taken into consideration. For instance, they are speaking about the return of refugees, but how can the refugees return to the place where they saw genocide? Or it is being spoken about guarantees. About what guarantees it may be spoken when during three days without any obstacles and without punishment pogroms were committed in Sumgait?! The raising of these issues is up-to-dated and may have its impact on the process of negotiations.
- How did Azerbaijan respond to these films?
- The responses of the Azerbaijani side were quite interesting. After these films the propaganda over these topics sharply activated in Azerbaijan. A book has been written about the Sumgait pogroms, websites opened where the facts were being distorted, but lie always comes on the surface. If they speak in the language of suppositions and lie, we are speaking in the language of facts.