Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute of the National Academy of Sciences, Republic of Armenia will host on April 20-22, 2014 in Yerevan an International conference ‘The Caucasus Frontline of the First World War. Genocide, Refugees and Humanitarian Assistance,’ dedicated to the centenary of World War I.

The aim of the conference is to study the unknown historical facts on the military operations in the Caucasus Front of the WWI, existence of refugees in the regions of military actions and the implementation of genocide against the Armenian population on the territories of the former Ottoman and Russian Empires during the war.

The following topics are among the issues covered by the Conference: War and Genocide, the Russian military men as witnesses of Genocide, the Military photographers and footages of the Caucasus frontline of the “Forgotten War”, war and the science: archeological and ethnographical studies in Armenia during the War, crimes against humanity and civilization, status and faith of the prisoners of war and missing, the War and volunteer movement, humanitarian assistance and refugees, charity in the Caucasus Front.

On the pretext of the War the Ottoman Government committed the planned Genocide against the Armenian population not only in the Western Armenia and throughout the Ottoman Empire, but also in the neighboring regions of Caucasus and North Iran. The Greek, Assyrian and Yezidi population of the region were also decimated.

