"This is not Pashinyan's plan, this is my personal approach." Kocharyan about making a list of 1.5 million

The statement on the completion of the lists of victims of genocide is my personal approach, there is no political decision, Andranik Kocharyan, Chairman of the Defense Committee of the National Assembly clarified in a conversation with "Azatutyan" today, stressing that Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has nothing to do with it.

Kocharyan said that he does not question the fact of the genocide, nor the number of 1.5 million, it is just his approach that the existing information should be enriched with additional facts, which will help to reveal not only the data of the victims of the Genocide, but also the claimant. to be, because those people also lost abilities and wealth.

On Sunday, Kocharyan announced on the air of "Freedom" that Pashinyan aims to build real foundations related to the Genocide and make the entire list of compatriots subjected to the Genocide more objective. Yesterday, Kocharyan confirmed the same in the parliamentary briefings.

Genocide scholar, former deputy director of the Genocide Museum, Suren Manukyan, considered this initiative of the government very dangerous, reminding that the idea of making lists is one of the Turkish denialist theses, which has been circulating since the 1960s.