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On July 1st, 60 Diaspora Armenian teachers undergoing training at the Armenian State Pedagogical University began their most important lesson of getting to know the homeland at two shrines for pilgrimage — Tsitsernakaberd Armenian Genocide Memorial Complex and Yerablour Military Pantheon. Most of the Diaspora Armenian teachers were visiting Armenia for the first time ever.
The teachers, who have arrived from 14 countries around the world, paid their tribute to the victims of the Armenian Genocide and paid a visit to the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute.
Director of the Museum-Institute, Candidate of Historical Sciences Edita Gzoyan greeted the Western Armenian and Eastern Armenian teachers from the Diaspora, noting that their service is invaluable and that the main burden of helping Armenian children preserve their identity and remembrance of the nation is on their shoulders.
Edita Gzoyan presented to the teachers the activities of the Museum-Institute and proudly emphasized the fact that, through the Museum-Institute’s direct efforts, the subject “Key Issues of the Armenian Genocide” will be taught in Armenian schools from now on, and a methodological textbook devoted to the subject will be published soon. She attached importance to the need of this textbook in Armenian schools abroad as well.
The teachers toured the Museum-Institute, which houses certificates, pictures and videos. With new proven documentation, the Museum-Institute’s specialist Anzhela Tevekelyan talked about the tragic state that Western Armenians were in before and during the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire and the repressions against the Armenians. “Armenians need to know the history of their people. We need to remember the history and present it to the next generations,” Anzhela Tevekelyan, who has published the story about the massacre of her ancestors, mentioned at the end of the meeting.
The teachers also visited Yerablour Military Pantheon and laid flowers at the tombs of the heroes.
