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  • Prague: Experts To Discuss Armenian Genocide In Ottoman Empire

    EXPERTS TO DISCUSS ARMENIAN GENOCIDE IN OTTOMAN EMPIRE

    Czech News Agency
    April 2, 2006 Sunday

    Prague, April 2 (CTK) - Facts about the extermination of Armenian
    inhabitants of Turkey during World War One and its circumstances
    and consequences will be discussed at an international conference
    that will be held in the Czech Senate next week. The event will be
    organised by the Armenia Club civic association and senator Jaromir
    Stetina (for the Greens) under the aegis of former president Vaclav
    Havel. The conference will be held 91 years after then Ottoman
    government arrested more than 2300 prominent Armenians. Armenians
    consider April 1915 the beginning of genocide that claimed the lives
    of 1.5 million people. Turkey refuses to speak about genocide, and it
    links the events with the struggle against Armenians collaborating
    with the invading Russian forces. It claims that the accusation is
    to slow down its admission to the European Union. According to the
    programme the conference in the Senate is to be also attended by
    Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanian.
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