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GERMANY PLANS SPECIAL EVENTS AHEAD OF GENOCIDE CENTENNIAL
14:11 * 30.12.14
As part of its Armenian Genocide recognition campaign, Germany is
planning more activities and events to mark the tragedy's centennial,
says the head of the German Union of Armenian Academicians.
"Ahead of the Genocide centenary, we thought of implementing the
'Four-Month Cultural Autumn' project from August until November to
ideologically prepare the residents of the university city Bochum
and the neighboring towns," Azat Ordukhanyan told a news conference
in Yerevan.
He said that the initiative comprised eight big programs aimed to
raise awareness of the big tragedy.
German newspapers have published around 35 articles whose authors,
Orduchanyan said, have not avoided using the term Genocide.
"We have applied to the Yerevan City Hall's Nature Protection
Department with a proposal for planting 155 trees," he said, adding
that the figure was selected with a special intention to coincide
with the Union's 155th anniversary.
"We have also proposed creating an Armenian-German friendship
mark. We do not want to mark the centennial, relying on the standard
cross-stone-based approach. We are heading to the next centennial
with the green color," he added.
He described the idea a good attempt to prove that the brutal headsman
(the Turk) did not manage to annihilate the Armenian nation. "Germany
publishes numerous books in the German language, so it is not only
the Armenians who remember the day. We closely collaborate with the
ethnic minorities in Germany," Ordukhanyan added.
http://www.tert.am/en/news/2014/12/30/Azat-ordukhanyan/1550326
From: Baghdasarian
14:11 * 30.12.14
As part of its Armenian Genocide recognition campaign, Germany is
planning more activities and events to mark the tragedy's centennial,
says the head of the German Union of Armenian Academicians.
"Ahead of the Genocide centenary, we thought of implementing the
'Four-Month Cultural Autumn' project from August until November to
ideologically prepare the residents of the university city Bochum
and the neighboring towns," Azat Ordukhanyan told a news conference
in Yerevan.
He said that the initiative comprised eight big programs aimed to
raise awareness of the big tragedy.
German newspapers have published around 35 articles whose authors,
Orduchanyan said, have not avoided using the term Genocide.
"We have applied to the Yerevan City Hall's Nature Protection
Department with a proposal for planting 155 trees," he said, adding
that the figure was selected with a special intention to coincide
with the Union's 155th anniversary.
"We have also proposed creating an Armenian-German friendship
mark. We do not want to mark the centennial, relying on the standard
cross-stone-based approach. We are heading to the next centennial
with the green color," he added.
He described the idea a good attempt to prove that the brutal headsman
(the Turk) did not manage to annihilate the Armenian nation. "Germany
publishes numerous books in the German language, so it is not only
the Armenians who remember the day. We closely collaborate with the
ethnic minorities in Germany," Ordukhanyan added.
http://www.tert.am/en/news/2014/12/30/Azat-ordukhanyan/1550326
From: Baghdasarian