Also on 3 April, Ruben Melkonyan, deputy dean of the Oriental Studies department at Yerevan State University, said that the Armenian community of Kessab was unlikely to recover and that what had happened were "crimes that make a genocide".
On 3 April, Ruben Melkonyan, a deputy head of the Oriental Studies department at Yerevan State University, indicated that the Armenian community in Kessab would likely not revive and described what transpired as "acts that constitute genocide."