The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) continues to believe that official Yerevan must not encourage a mass out-migration of ethnic Armenians from Syria despite worsening violence there, a senior representative of the pan-Armenian party said on Wednesday.
Giro Manoyan, the party's foreign affairs spokesman, stood by his earlier arguments that their exodus would eliminate a key Armenian community in the Middle East. He also argued that the 80,000-strong Syrian Armenian community is "not a target" in the country's bloody civil war.
"We have suffered some casualties because of the overall situation there, rather than targeted attacks," Manoyan told a news conference.
More than 40 Syrian Armenians have been killed since the outbreak of the conflict in early 2011. The vast majority of them reportedly died in crossfire or bomb explosions.
Armenian News
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