Ahead the 100th commemoration of the Armenian Genocide, psychologists are going to launch a study into the crime’s genetic aspects, Armenpress reported.

The research, expected to target some 2,500 Armenians in Armenia and the Diaspora, is aimed at revealing the forms of the traumatic memory transfer.

Speaking to the agency, the head of the Yerevan State Medical University’s Medical Psychology Chair, Khachatur Gasparyan, has said
the project will be carried out with the assistance of the State Committee of Science (Ministry of Education and Science of Armenia).

“For us, it is interesting to know how the Armenian Genocide trauma is transferred from one generation to another,” he said. “We came up with the idea on the Genocide day as we were heading home from the Genocide complex late in the evening. With the people’s flow being large, we would pause at times. I tried, at that moment, to observe different people’s reaction in the crowd. What interested me was the behavior of a child of five or six who was shouting at his mother, asking her why music was on. I came to realize that the child couldn’t understand why so many people go to the memorial with flowers in hands; he couldn’t understand the trauma of the Massacre. We don’t know at this point what information has reached the child”.