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  • Budyonnovsk Residents Urge Local Duma to Recognize Armenian Genocide

    BUDYONNOVSK RESIDENTS URGE LOCAL DUMA TO RECOGNIZE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE


    YEREVAN, APRIL 27. ARMINFO. Residents of Buyonnovsk, Stavropol region,
    Russia, rallied Apr 24 to commemorate the Armenian Genocide of 1915 in
    Ottoman Turkey, reports Yerkramas, Krasnodar-based newspaper of
    Russian Armenians.

    The ralliers urged the local Duma to recognize the Genocide. They
    compared it with the events of 1995 when Budyonnovsk was attacked by
    Chechen fighters led by Shamil Basayev.

    It was symbolic that victim to the terrorist act then became citizens
    of Russia and Armenia. The Budyonnovsk tragedy has proved that
    unrestrained in 1915 the founders of "Halifat" have not given up the
    anti-human plans they started in Apr 24 1915.

    "Paying tribute to the memory of the victims of the Armenian Genocide
    on its 90th anniversary and the 10th anniversary of the Budyonnosk
    tragedy we urge you, dear Duma deputies, to condemn the Genocide as an
    outrageous act against humanity," said the ralliers.

    Present at the rally were the mayor of Budyonnovsk, local DUma
    deputies, Cossacks.

    NOTE: The town of Surb Khach (Holy Cross, now Budyonnovsk) was founded
    in 1799 by Armenians from Karabakh in accordance with the charter by
    Russian Emperor Paul I.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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