YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 23, NOYAN TAPAN. The Armenian General Benevolent Union (AGBU) Armenia Office has provided modern equipment of 10 thousand dollars to the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute (AGMI). The AGMI director Hayk Demoyan said at the November 22 press conference that the museum's exhibits and handwritten memoirs of genocide survivors (many of these memoirs have faded and become illegible) will be digitalized with this equipment. Besides, it is envisaged creating a website in Armenian, French, Russian and Turkish soon. The English website has been available for 4 months, with the number of its visitors growing threefold each month. According to H. Demoyan, the responses are "both positive and negative". It was mentioned that after familiarizing themselves with exhibits, Turkish visitors of the museum try to justify themselves but there have been cases when these exhibits shocked them. H. Demoyan said that every year the museum is replenished with new sources, including unknown manusripts, photos, materials which are directly related to the genocide. "The abundance of material suprises me. The matter concerns even printed manuscrpits which have remained unknown so far. Our purpose is to digitalize the literature published in various languages and to collect it in an electronic book," H. Demoyan stressed. In his words, there is plenty of material on the Armenian Genocide abroad, ad museum employees will soon go to Ruusia, European and Middle East countries to find it in order to prepare a new museum exhibition based on it. H. Demoyan announced that the institute is going to publish ten monographs, which have never been published in Armenian. Most of them are translated from Turkish.

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