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GOV. MALLOY TO ATTEND ARMENIAN GENOCIDE EVENT
The Associated Press State & Local Wire
April 21, 2012 Saturday 4:38 PM GMT
Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy has joined state lawmakers and others
to commemorate the Armenian Genocide at an event held annually at
the state Capitol.
Organizers say the event pays tribute to more than 1.5 million people
killed by Ottoman Turks nearly a century ago. Most historians contend
the killings of the Armenians constituted the first genocide of the
20th century. Turkey refuses to call the Armenian deaths genocide.
U.S. Rep. John Larson and state Rep. Christopher Wright of Bristol
joined Malloy at the Saturday morning commemoration inside the Hall
of the House of Representatives.
Southern Connecticut State University President Mary Papazian was
scheduled to be the keynote speaker at the commemoration of the
killings that began with the rounding up of about 800 Armenian
intellectuals on April 24, 1915.
The Associated Press State & Local Wire
April 21, 2012 Saturday 4:38 PM GMT
Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy has joined state lawmakers and others
to commemorate the Armenian Genocide at an event held annually at
the state Capitol.
Organizers say the event pays tribute to more than 1.5 million people
killed by Ottoman Turks nearly a century ago. Most historians contend
the killings of the Armenians constituted the first genocide of the
20th century. Turkey refuses to call the Armenian deaths genocide.
U.S. Rep. John Larson and state Rep. Christopher Wright of Bristol
joined Malloy at the Saturday morning commemoration inside the Hall
of the House of Representatives.
Southern Connecticut State University President Mary Papazian was
scheduled to be the keynote speaker at the commemoration of the
killings that began with the rounding up of about 800 Armenian
intellectuals on April 24, 1915.