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CITY OF BUENOS AIRES ALLOCATES PROPERTY FOR GENOCIDE MUSEUM
Wednesday, June 11th, 2014
Chief of Staff of the Buenos Aires City Government Horacio Rodriguez Larreta
BUENOS AIRES (Agencia Prensa Armenia)--Buenos Aires city authorities
officially transfered a property for the construction of an Armenian
Genocide museum on Tuesday, June 10, in a ceremony attended by the
City's Chief of Staff Horacio Rodriguez Larreta, Undersecretary
for Human Rights and Cultural Pluralism Claudio Avruj and various
representatives of the Armenian community in the country, as well as
the Armenian Ambassador Vahagn Melikian.
Rodriguez Larreta stressed that this museum is "a way to ensure that
humanity will not commit atrocities like those committed almost 100
years ago in Armenia" and highlighted the "pride" that Armenians had to
"emerge with such force" after having suffered the Genocide.
Avruj said that "the Armenian Genocide, as well as the Holocaust
or the genocide in Rwanda represents absolute evil" and stated that
"the recognition of those facts allow us and the next generations to
have a better society."
The property for the Armenian Genocide Museum was transfered to the
Memory of the Armenian Genocide Foundation, an organization led by
Professor Nelida Boulgourdjian and architect Juan Carlos Toufeksian,
the same institution that organized the International Congress on
Armenian Genocide in Buenos Aires last April.
Toufeksian gave some details of the project: the Museum will have
a memorial on the ground floor and a screen with testimonies of the
survivors. The first floor there would have the Museum of Genocide
itself, while the second floor will be devoted to the cultural heritage
of the Armenians in Argentina and temporary exhibitions. The third
floor will contain a library.
"The laws and judgments of justice, along with the recent decisions
to build museums in Montevideo and Buenos Aires are an example of
the conviction to overcome the discourse and the pressures of the
states that continue to deny the existence of the Armenian Genocide,
like Turkey and Azerbaijan," said Alfonso Tabakian, director of the
Armenian National Committee of South America.
http://asbarez.com/123993/city-of-buenos-aires-allocates-property-for-genocide-museum/
Wednesday, June 11th, 2014
Chief of Staff of the Buenos Aires City Government Horacio Rodriguez Larreta
BUENOS AIRES (Agencia Prensa Armenia)--Buenos Aires city authorities
officially transfered a property for the construction of an Armenian
Genocide museum on Tuesday, June 10, in a ceremony attended by the
City's Chief of Staff Horacio Rodriguez Larreta, Undersecretary
for Human Rights and Cultural Pluralism Claudio Avruj and various
representatives of the Armenian community in the country, as well as
the Armenian Ambassador Vahagn Melikian.
Rodriguez Larreta stressed that this museum is "a way to ensure that
humanity will not commit atrocities like those committed almost 100
years ago in Armenia" and highlighted the "pride" that Armenians had to
"emerge with such force" after having suffered the Genocide.
Avruj said that "the Armenian Genocide, as well as the Holocaust
or the genocide in Rwanda represents absolute evil" and stated that
"the recognition of those facts allow us and the next generations to
have a better society."
The property for the Armenian Genocide Museum was transfered to the
Memory of the Armenian Genocide Foundation, an organization led by
Professor Nelida Boulgourdjian and architect Juan Carlos Toufeksian,
the same institution that organized the International Congress on
Armenian Genocide in Buenos Aires last April.
Toufeksian gave some details of the project: the Museum will have
a memorial on the ground floor and a screen with testimonies of the
survivors. The first floor there would have the Museum of Genocide
itself, while the second floor will be devoted to the cultural heritage
of the Armenians in Argentina and temporary exhibitions. The third
floor will contain a library.
"The laws and judgments of justice, along with the recent decisions
to build museums in Montevideo and Buenos Aires are an example of
the conviction to overcome the discourse and the pressures of the
states that continue to deny the existence of the Armenian Genocide,
like Turkey and Azerbaijan," said Alfonso Tabakian, director of the
Armenian National Committee of South America.
http://asbarez.com/123993/city-of-buenos-aires-allocates-property-for-genocide-museum/