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  • BUDAPEST: Minority Ombudsman Remembers Armenian Genocide

    Hungarian News Agency (MTI)
    April 24, 2010 Saturday


    MINORITY OMBUDSMAN REMEMBERS ARMENIAN GENOCIDE



    Budapest, April 24 (MTI) - Hungarian minority ombudsman Erno Kallai
    has reiterated the need to condemn all devastating, murderous
    ideologies and all forms of discrimination by race and religion on the
    anniversary of the genocide committed against the Armenian nation in
    1915-17.

    In a statement sent to MTI on Saturday, the ombudsman noted that 95
    years ago some 600 Armenian intellectuals had been massacred in Turkey
    because of their ethnicity and religion, followed by the annihilation
    of 2.5 million Armenians until 1917.

    Kallai called the genocide a "shameful episode of world history, one
    that mankind should never forget."

    Armenians in Hungary were recognised as a national minority in 1991.
    The community numbers around some thousand people, living mostly in
    Budapest.
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