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ARMENIAN COMMUNITY TO WORK WITH CMHR STAFF TO TELL STORY OF GENOCIDE
Winnipeg Free Press, Canada
Nov 7 2013
By: Staff Writer
Armenian Canadians signed on with Canadian Museum for Human Rights
to share history of their genocide as a way to combat human rights
violations in a signing ceremony today.
The event means Armenian-Canadian cultural groups will work with
museum staff, exchanging knowledge and expertise to develop educational
materials and exhibitions to tell the story of the Armenian genocide.
During and after the First World War, one of the final acts of
Ottoman Empire was to target the Armenian population of Turkey for
extermination. Some half a million escaped abroad but another one
and a half million Armenian Turks were killed.
The genocide is significant not just for the sheer horror of the
the genocide but because against persistence denials it happened,
a network of Armenian survivors persuaded countries to acknowledge
it occurred. That recognition led to the definition of genocide used
globally today to define such atrocities.
This is not the first agreement the museum has made to work with
cultural groups to highlight human rights abuses.
Two weeks ago the museum made a similar announcement regarding the
so-called "Comfort Women" with Chinese and Pilipino Canadians.
Several representatives of the Armenian community in Canada were on
hand for the announcement at the downtown offices of the museum,
including the Ambassador of the Republic of Armenia to Canada,
His Excellency Armen Yeganian and the family of one survivor of the
genocide who settled in Canada, Jack and David Garabed, sons of Harry
Garabed from Killarney.
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/Armenian-community-to-work-with-CMHR-staff-to-tell-story-of-genocide-231026181.html
Winnipeg Free Press, Canada
Nov 7 2013
By: Staff Writer
Armenian Canadians signed on with Canadian Museum for Human Rights
to share history of their genocide as a way to combat human rights
violations in a signing ceremony today.
The event means Armenian-Canadian cultural groups will work with
museum staff, exchanging knowledge and expertise to develop educational
materials and exhibitions to tell the story of the Armenian genocide.
During and after the First World War, one of the final acts of
Ottoman Empire was to target the Armenian population of Turkey for
extermination. Some half a million escaped abroad but another one
and a half million Armenian Turks were killed.
The genocide is significant not just for the sheer horror of the
the genocide but because against persistence denials it happened,
a network of Armenian survivors persuaded countries to acknowledge
it occurred. That recognition led to the definition of genocide used
globally today to define such atrocities.
This is not the first agreement the museum has made to work with
cultural groups to highlight human rights abuses.
Two weeks ago the museum made a similar announcement regarding the
so-called "Comfort Women" with Chinese and Pilipino Canadians.
Several representatives of the Armenian community in Canada were on
hand for the announcement at the downtown offices of the museum,
including the Ambassador of the Republic of Armenia to Canada,
His Excellency Armen Yeganian and the family of one survivor of the
genocide who settled in Canada, Jack and David Garabed, sons of Harry
Garabed from Killarney.
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/Armenian-community-to-work-with-CMHR-staff-to-tell-story-of-genocide-231026181.html