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UK ARMENIANS COMMEMORATE THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
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At the Cenotaph L-R: Mr. Haik Khemchian Consul and Mr. Ara Margarian
Charge d'Affair of the Armenian Embassy in London. Fr. Garegin
Hamparsoumin, H.G. Bishop Vahan Hovanessian Primate of the Armenian
Church and Chairman of the ACCC Mr. Ara Palamoudian London - Around
1500 people silently marched to The Cenotaph memorial on Saturday 20
April 2013 in an annual remembrance of one and a half million fellow
Armenians slaughtered by Ottoman Turks during Armenian Genocide
of 1915.
An incessant stream of people passed through prominent streets of
London carrying hundreds of placards, laying wreaths at the base of
the Cenotaph where the procession culminated its route.
Homenetmen Scouts ahead of the march.
Photo by Vasken Jermakian The procession lead by the Homenetmen
Armenian Scouts and members of the Armenian Community and Church
Council and CRAG, began in the morning on Oxford Street, moving to
Regents Street, Haymarket, Trafalgar Square and Whitehall. Informative
leaflets were handed out to members of public throughout the
march. Official representatives placed wreaths at the Cenotaph,
Mr Ara Margarian (Councillor) of the Embassy of the Republic of
Armenian, Mr Ara Palamoudian Chairman of the Armenian Community and
Church Council and Bishop Vahan Hovhanessian of the Diocese of the
Armenian Church of Great Britain, who continued with a prayer service
remembering the 1.5 Million Armenians who perished before, during and
after 1915. The procession then sang the Armenian National Anthem and
after a few announcements, representatives of the Armenian Community
in Great Britain together with photo journalist Khecho Arakelian,
continued to 10 Downing street to hand in the petition letter to the
Prime Minister's office.
Handing in letter at 10 Downing Street (L-R): Viken Haladjian (chairman
of the Executive Committee), Mr Ara Palamoudian (chairman of ACCC),
Mr. Raffi Sarkissian (chairman of CRAG) , Mrs Zabel Malas (community
representative) Mr Ara Palamoudian (chairman of ACCC), Mr Viken
Haladjian (chairman of the Executive Committee), Raffi Sarkissian
(chairman of CRAG) , Mrs Zabel Malas (community representative)
passed through the iron gates and security desk to Downing Street,
where a officer welcomed the group by receiving the petition.
April 24 marks the 98th anniversary of the arrest of more than 250
Armenian political leaders, intellectuals, teachers, clergy and
artists in Constantinople ordered by the government of the Ottoman
Empire. Their subsequent executions were followed by massacres and
deportations of Armenians in what is now eastern Turkey and other parts
of the crumbling empire. An estimated 1.5 million victims lost their
lives on the death marches to the Syrian desert during the genocide
and nearly 90 percent of the Armenian Homeland.
United in a just cause. Their ancestors did not lie.
Successive Turkish governments have denied a planned government effort
to exterminate the Ottoman Empire's Armenian population. They have
claimed that Ottoman Armenians died in much smaller numbers and the
deaths were mainly a result of local ethnic conflicts. Accordingly,
they have strongly condemned foreign governments and parliaments
recognizing the massacres as genocide.
The community is working in a cooperative and concerted manner for
commemoration of the Centennial of the Armenian Genocide in 2015. A
special committee was formed in 2012 from representatives of all major
Armenian organisation, who are actively preparing a comprehensive
program. The Armenian Genocide Centenary Commemoration Committee will
soon begin its public engagement program and announcements.
By Raffi Sarkissian/CRAG - ACCC of GB
http://www.accc.org.uk/uk-armenians-commemorate-the-armenian-genocide/
At the Cenotaph L-R: Mr. Haik Khemchian Consul and Mr. Ara Margarian
Charge d'Affair of the Armenian Embassy in London. Fr. Garegin
Hamparsoumin, H.G. Bishop Vahan Hovanessian Primate of the Armenian
Church and Chairman of the ACCC Mr. Ara Palamoudian London - Around
1500 people silently marched to The Cenotaph memorial on Saturday 20
April 2013 in an annual remembrance of one and a half million fellow
Armenians slaughtered by Ottoman Turks during Armenian Genocide
of 1915.
An incessant stream of people passed through prominent streets of
London carrying hundreds of placards, laying wreaths at the base of
the Cenotaph where the procession culminated its route.
Homenetmen Scouts ahead of the march.
Photo by Vasken Jermakian The procession lead by the Homenetmen
Armenian Scouts and members of the Armenian Community and Church
Council and CRAG, began in the morning on Oxford Street, moving to
Regents Street, Haymarket, Trafalgar Square and Whitehall. Informative
leaflets were handed out to members of public throughout the
march. Official representatives placed wreaths at the Cenotaph,
Mr Ara Margarian (Councillor) of the Embassy of the Republic of
Armenian, Mr Ara Palamoudian Chairman of the Armenian Community and
Church Council and Bishop Vahan Hovhanessian of the Diocese of the
Armenian Church of Great Britain, who continued with a prayer service
remembering the 1.5 Million Armenians who perished before, during and
after 1915. The procession then sang the Armenian National Anthem and
after a few announcements, representatives of the Armenian Community
in Great Britain together with photo journalist Khecho Arakelian,
continued to 10 Downing street to hand in the petition letter to the
Prime Minister's office.
Handing in letter at 10 Downing Street (L-R): Viken Haladjian (chairman
of the Executive Committee), Mr Ara Palamoudian (chairman of ACCC),
Mr. Raffi Sarkissian (chairman of CRAG) , Mrs Zabel Malas (community
representative) Mr Ara Palamoudian (chairman of ACCC), Mr Viken
Haladjian (chairman of the Executive Committee), Raffi Sarkissian
(chairman of CRAG) , Mrs Zabel Malas (community representative)
passed through the iron gates and security desk to Downing Street,
where a officer welcomed the group by receiving the petition.
April 24 marks the 98th anniversary of the arrest of more than 250
Armenian political leaders, intellectuals, teachers, clergy and
artists in Constantinople ordered by the government of the Ottoman
Empire. Their subsequent executions were followed by massacres and
deportations of Armenians in what is now eastern Turkey and other parts
of the crumbling empire. An estimated 1.5 million victims lost their
lives on the death marches to the Syrian desert during the genocide
and nearly 90 percent of the Armenian Homeland.
United in a just cause. Their ancestors did not lie.
Successive Turkish governments have denied a planned government effort
to exterminate the Ottoman Empire's Armenian population. They have
claimed that Ottoman Armenians died in much smaller numbers and the
deaths were mainly a result of local ethnic conflicts. Accordingly,
they have strongly condemned foreign governments and parliaments
recognizing the massacres as genocide.
The community is working in a cooperative and concerted manner for
commemoration of the Centennial of the Armenian Genocide in 2015. A
special committee was formed in 2012 from representatives of all major
Armenian organisation, who are actively preparing a comprehensive
program. The Armenian Genocide Centenary Commemoration Committee will
soon begin its public engagement program and announcements.
By Raffi Sarkissian/CRAG - ACCC of GB