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JERUSALEM ARMENIANS MARK GENOCIDE ANNIVERSARY
armradio.am
24.04.2012 17:47
Hundreds of Armenians joined a march to the Turkish consulate in East
Jerusalem on Tuesday to mark the 97th anniversary of the genocide of
their people by Ottoman Turks during World War I.
Demonstrators first attended a memorial service inside the Armenian
Convent in the Old City, where they prayed and lit candles, before
marching to the Armenian cemetery on Mount Zion.
They carried the red, blue and orange national flag of Armenia,
and held up placards bearing black and white photographs of piles of
dead bodies, and slogans reading: "Turkey guilty of genocide," and:
"Fight to stop the Turkish denial machine."
Others wore t-shirts reading: "Armenians will never forget."
They then marched to the Turkish consulate in annexed east Jerusalem,
but were prevented by police from demonstrating directly outside the
building, one of the protesters told AFP.
From: Baghdasarian
armradio.am
24.04.2012 17:47
Hundreds of Armenians joined a march to the Turkish consulate in East
Jerusalem on Tuesday to mark the 97th anniversary of the genocide of
their people by Ottoman Turks during World War I.
Demonstrators first attended a memorial service inside the Armenian
Convent in the Old City, where they prayed and lit candles, before
marching to the Armenian cemetery on Mount Zion.
They carried the red, blue and orange national flag of Armenia,
and held up placards bearing black and white photographs of piles of
dead bodies, and slogans reading: "Turkey guilty of genocide," and:
"Fight to stop the Turkish denial machine."
Others wore t-shirts reading: "Armenians will never forget."
They then marched to the Turkish consulate in annexed east Jerusalem,
but were prevented by police from demonstrating directly outside the
building, one of the protesters told AFP.
From: Baghdasarian