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TURKISH EMBASSY IN BEIRUT SETS WIRE FENCE DURING GENOCIDE RALLY
PanARMENIAN.Net
April 24, 2012 - 16:46 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Tens of thousands of Lebanese Armenians gathered
outside the Turkish embassy in Rabieh, Metn, burning Turkish flags
and calling on Ankara to recognize the Genocide of 1915, The Daily
Star reports.
Officials at the Interior Ministry said between 20,000 and 25,000
people took part in the rally that started from the Armenian Orthodox
Catholicosate in Antelias, Metn, and ended at the Turkish embassy.
The huge protest prompted the Turkish embassy to request a change of
security arrangements in the vicinity of the mission. The crowds
outside the embassy were separated by two rows of barbed wire
fences and hundreds of riot police. No incidents occurred during the
two-and-half rally which ended at 2:30pm.
The protesters chanted anti-Turkish slogans and set at least six
Turkish flags on fire.
Organizers managed to keep the situation under control and called
for restraint.
Traffic from Antelias to Rabieh was at a standstill as a result
of the protest, which saw participation by the country's main
Armenian-Lebanese political parties: the Dashnak, Hunchakian and
Ramgavar.
Head of the Central Maronite Council, former Minister Wadih Khazen,
commemorated the Armenian victims of the genocide at the hands of
the Ottoman Empire, comparing their suffering to that which Lebanon
has endured in its quest for freedom.
PanARMENIAN.Net
April 24, 2012 - 16:46 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Tens of thousands of Lebanese Armenians gathered
outside the Turkish embassy in Rabieh, Metn, burning Turkish flags
and calling on Ankara to recognize the Genocide of 1915, The Daily
Star reports.
Officials at the Interior Ministry said between 20,000 and 25,000
people took part in the rally that started from the Armenian Orthodox
Catholicosate in Antelias, Metn, and ended at the Turkish embassy.
The huge protest prompted the Turkish embassy to request a change of
security arrangements in the vicinity of the mission. The crowds
outside the embassy were separated by two rows of barbed wire
fences and hundreds of riot police. No incidents occurred during the
two-and-half rally which ended at 2:30pm.
The protesters chanted anti-Turkish slogans and set at least six
Turkish flags on fire.
Organizers managed to keep the situation under control and called
for restraint.
Traffic from Antelias to Rabieh was at a standstill as a result
of the protest, which saw participation by the country's main
Armenian-Lebanese political parties: the Dashnak, Hunchakian and
Ramgavar.
Head of the Central Maronite Council, former Minister Wadih Khazen,
commemorated the Armenian victims of the genocide at the hands of
the Ottoman Empire, comparing their suffering to that which Lebanon
has endured in its quest for freedom.