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    ARMENIAN COLLEGE & PHILANTHROPIC ACADEMY
    56B Mirza Ghalib St. Kolkata 700 016, WB, INDIA
    Tel: (91-33) 4010-9051 / 2229-9051
    Fax: (91-33) 2227-5869
    E-mail: [email protected]
    Web: www.armeniancollege.in

    INFORMATION SERVICE
    PRESS RELEASE
    24th April, 2010


    APRIL 24th in INDIA


    On 24th April, 2010 Armenians in India gathered at the Armenian Genocide
    memorial in the premises of the Armenian Holy Church of Nazareth,
    Kolkata to commemorate the 95th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide
    with a special Requiem service.

    Later in the evening, with the performance of the students of the
    Armenian College and Philanthropic Academy, a cultural programme in the
    memory of the Armenian Genocide victims started with `Ave
    Maria' by an Armenian renowned singer in India, Shayne Hyrapiet.

    During the commemoration, Very Rev. Fr. Khoren Hovhannisyan, Pastor of
    Armenians in India and His Excellency Ara Hakobyan, Ambassador of the
    Republic of Armenians to India addressed the gathered. `The
    whole nation was nailed on the cross only because they were
    Armenians... the wound left behind from the Armenian Genocide is
    not recovering, it is still bleeding because of Turkish denial
    ...Dear friends, young and old, specially the students of the
    Armenian College let us make a promise now to our 1.5 million victims
    that we will do our utmost to bring justice for them. Let us make a
    promise that we will never forget the first Genocide of the 20th century
    and will fight to crush Turkish denial in every possible way'
    concluded Fr. Khoren.

    During the commemoration, Most Rev. Lucas Sirkar, the Catholic
    Archbishop of Kolkata concluded the evening with his words of comfort
    `No one can delete the Armenian Genocide from history as long as
    there is even a single person living on earth.'
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