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    95TH ANNIVERSARY OF GENOCIDE SET FOR NEXT SATURDAY

    Lowell Sun
    April 11, 2010 Sunday
    Massachusetts

    LOWELL -- Area Armenians will mark the 95th anniversary of the Armenian
    genocide with a procession and flag-raising ceremony downtown on
    Saturday, April 24.

    The event is being organized by the Merrimack Valley Chapter, Armenian
    National Committee, and will begin with a procession from John and
    Merrimack streets to City Hall, where the mayor and other city and
    state dignitaries will speak.

    A city proclamation has been drafted declaring the week of April
    18-24 as Armenian Genocide Week in Lowell.

    The featured speaker will be Dro Kanayan, of North Andover, grandson
    of an Armenian Revolutionary General by the same name and a catalyst
    in promoting genocide education in high schools throughout Merrimack
    Valley.

    Members of the Armenian Youth Federation and Armenian Christian Youth
    Organization of America will join together in raising the Armenian
    flag in commemoration of the 1.5 million lives lost to the Ottoman
    Turks during 1915-1923.

    "The Armenian Genocide was a crime against all humanity," Aram
    Jeknavorian, ANC chairman, said in a prepared statement.

    "We gather in spirit and solitude to remember those martyrs who
    perished and those who survived to make America and Lowell a better
    ethnic community," he said.

    Those wishing to join the march are asked to gather at 9:30 at the
    corner of Merrimack and John Streets in downtown Lowell.

    A reception will follow inside City Hall.
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