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APRIL 24: ARMENIANS MARK 98TH ANNIVERSARY OF GENOCIDE
Genocide | 24.04.13 | 13:59
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Armenians in Armenia and around the world today remember the victims
of the Genocide committed in Ottoman Turkey nearly a century ago.
More than 1.5 million Armenians were massacred in 1915-1918 in what
became the first genocide of the 20th century.
Tens of thousands of people have marched silently to the hilltop
Genocide Memorial at Tsitsernakaberd in Yerevan today to pay respect
to the memory of innocent victims of the slaughter and deportations
that have been recognized as genocide and condemned by more than two
dozen world governments and many leading international organizations.
Turkey's successive governments, however, have refused to admit that
their ancestors committed genocide against Armenians.
"It is our duty to realize and to bring the attention of the
international community to the fact that denial of the Genocide
constitutes direct continuation of that very crime and that very crime
is being carried out in modern Turkey," said Armenian President Serzh
Sargsyan in a message addressed to the nation on the 98th anniversary
of the Genocide.
"We, as a state and as a nation, in every corner of the world have
been and will be fighting against all and every manifestation of the
most horrendous crime against humanity - genocide, be it xenophobia
or extermination, nonchalant silence or denial. We will fight with
fervor because our standing as the people who had survived compels
us to," the Armenian leader emphasized.
Sargsyan as well as many representatives of the Armenian government,
members of the opposition, other statesmen and church dignitaries
have also visited Tsitsernakaberd to lay wreaths and flowers at the
memorial and pay homage to the Genocide victims.
http://armenianow.com/genocide/45573/armenia_genocide_april_24_president_serzh_sargsyan
Genocide | 24.04.13 | 13:59
Photolure
Armenians in Armenia and around the world today remember the victims
of the Genocide committed in Ottoman Turkey nearly a century ago.
More than 1.5 million Armenians were massacred in 1915-1918 in what
became the first genocide of the 20th century.
Tens of thousands of people have marched silently to the hilltop
Genocide Memorial at Tsitsernakaberd in Yerevan today to pay respect
to the memory of innocent victims of the slaughter and deportations
that have been recognized as genocide and condemned by more than two
dozen world governments and many leading international organizations.
Turkey's successive governments, however, have refused to admit that
their ancestors committed genocide against Armenians.
"It is our duty to realize and to bring the attention of the
international community to the fact that denial of the Genocide
constitutes direct continuation of that very crime and that very crime
is being carried out in modern Turkey," said Armenian President Serzh
Sargsyan in a message addressed to the nation on the 98th anniversary
of the Genocide.
"We, as a state and as a nation, in every corner of the world have
been and will be fighting against all and every manifestation of the
most horrendous crime against humanity - genocide, be it xenophobia
or extermination, nonchalant silence or denial. We will fight with
fervor because our standing as the people who had survived compels
us to," the Armenian leader emphasized.
Sargsyan as well as many representatives of the Armenian government,
members of the opposition, other statesmen and church dignitaries
have also visited Tsitsernakaberd to lay wreaths and flowers at the
memorial and pay homage to the Genocide victims.
http://armenianow.com/genocide/45573/armenia_genocide_april_24_president_serzh_sargsyan