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GENOCIDE OF GREEKS COMMEMORATED
Neos Kosmos, The Greek Perspective, Australia
Oct 3 2014
We must continue seeking the recognition of genocides by all Australian
parliaments, says Professor Lygeros
"We won! We are here!
"We won against the plans of the genocidaires because we are here
and remind them of their crimes."
This was the essence of the address by the keynote speaker, Professor
Nikos Lygeros, a research fellow at the University of Lyon, France,
to a well attended Commemoration of the Genocide of the Hellenes of
Pontos, Asia Minor and Thrace, held at New South Wales Parliament
House last week.
The commemoration was the result of the cooperation of a number of
organisations including the Order of AHEPA NSW and NZ (main sponsor
of Professor Lygeros' visit), the 'Pontoxeniteas', 'Panayia Soumela'
and 'Diogenes' Pontian associations of Sydney and Wollongong.
'Unity is strength' was another of the Commemoration's main messages,
conveyed as much by the organisers as by the keynote speaker.
Professor Lygeros emphasised the significance of the unity of the
victims - be they Hellenes, Armenians, Assyrians or Jews. This was
underlined by the delegations of the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies,
the Assyrian Universal Alliance, Sydney's Armenian community and
others who lent their support for the Hellenic Genocide Commemoration
in their own ways.
"The purpose of the genocidaires is the extermination of the victims,
the cessation of the continuity of the Hellenes, the Armenians, the
Assyrians, the Jews and others," continued Professor Lygeros. "To
deny to those yet unborn even the right to life. This is why we
must persist in demanding recognition of the genocides by all the
parliaments of Australia."
Speaking about his visit to the Sydney Jewish Museum, Professor Lygeros
stressed the importance of such installations for the continuity of
historical memory, of the continuity of the peoples who have endured
genocide. He stated further that there must be created in Sydney a
similar museum for all genocides, so that we do not forget, so that
such events are not repeated.
The Master of Ceremonies, Dr Panayiotis Diamadis (state secretary
of the Order of AHEPA NSW and NZ and lecturer in genocide Studies,
University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) opened the commemoration with
a phrase from the 6th century BCE mathematician and philosopher
Pythagoras: 'ÔÁÓ ËÅÙOÏÑÏÕÓ ÌC ÂÁÄEÆÅEÓ' - Do not follow the
well-trodden path.
Those who attended last week's commemoration did not follow the
well-trodden path. In their addresses, David Clarke MLC (Parliamentary
Secretary for Justice, Liberal Party) and the Rev. Fred Nile MLC
(Christian Democratic Party) related the threats, pressures and bribery
attempts they had been subjected to by Turkish authorities in Ankara
and Australia, and their local adjuncts. The two supporters of the
Australian Hellenic community, who played leading roles in the formal
recognition of the genocides of the Hellenes, Armenians and Assyrians
by the parliament of New South Wales in May 2013, re-emphasised the
significance of the unity of peoples against genocidaires, especially
today, when a new wave of genocidal action has been unleashed against
the indigenous Assyrians and the Armenians of Syria and Iraq.
Fred Nile told the assembly of his pride in having the framed
photographs of the Holy Monastery of Panayia Soumela Trapezountas in
his parliamentary office, gifts of the Pontian associations of New
South Wales at the 2013 Genocide Commemoration.
In his message to the commemorative event, Consul-General of Greece
in Sydney Dr Stavros Kyrimis stated that it is our obligation to
humanity to remind everyone of the values of Western civilisation:
acceptance of difference, human rights, democracy.
http://neoskosmos.com/news/en/Genocide-of-Greeks-commemorated
Neos Kosmos, The Greek Perspective, Australia
Oct 3 2014
We must continue seeking the recognition of genocides by all Australian
parliaments, says Professor Lygeros
"We won! We are here!
"We won against the plans of the genocidaires because we are here
and remind them of their crimes."
This was the essence of the address by the keynote speaker, Professor
Nikos Lygeros, a research fellow at the University of Lyon, France,
to a well attended Commemoration of the Genocide of the Hellenes of
Pontos, Asia Minor and Thrace, held at New South Wales Parliament
House last week.
The commemoration was the result of the cooperation of a number of
organisations including the Order of AHEPA NSW and NZ (main sponsor
of Professor Lygeros' visit), the 'Pontoxeniteas', 'Panayia Soumela'
and 'Diogenes' Pontian associations of Sydney and Wollongong.
'Unity is strength' was another of the Commemoration's main messages,
conveyed as much by the organisers as by the keynote speaker.
Professor Lygeros emphasised the significance of the unity of the
victims - be they Hellenes, Armenians, Assyrians or Jews. This was
underlined by the delegations of the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies,
the Assyrian Universal Alliance, Sydney's Armenian community and
others who lent their support for the Hellenic Genocide Commemoration
in their own ways.
"The purpose of the genocidaires is the extermination of the victims,
the cessation of the continuity of the Hellenes, the Armenians, the
Assyrians, the Jews and others," continued Professor Lygeros. "To
deny to those yet unborn even the right to life. This is why we
must persist in demanding recognition of the genocides by all the
parliaments of Australia."
Speaking about his visit to the Sydney Jewish Museum, Professor Lygeros
stressed the importance of such installations for the continuity of
historical memory, of the continuity of the peoples who have endured
genocide. He stated further that there must be created in Sydney a
similar museum for all genocides, so that we do not forget, so that
such events are not repeated.
The Master of Ceremonies, Dr Panayiotis Diamadis (state secretary
of the Order of AHEPA NSW and NZ and lecturer in genocide Studies,
University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) opened the commemoration with
a phrase from the 6th century BCE mathematician and philosopher
Pythagoras: 'ÔÁÓ ËÅÙOÏÑÏÕÓ ÌC ÂÁÄEÆÅEÓ' - Do not follow the
well-trodden path.
Those who attended last week's commemoration did not follow the
well-trodden path. In their addresses, David Clarke MLC (Parliamentary
Secretary for Justice, Liberal Party) and the Rev. Fred Nile MLC
(Christian Democratic Party) related the threats, pressures and bribery
attempts they had been subjected to by Turkish authorities in Ankara
and Australia, and their local adjuncts. The two supporters of the
Australian Hellenic community, who played leading roles in the formal
recognition of the genocides of the Hellenes, Armenians and Assyrians
by the parliament of New South Wales in May 2013, re-emphasised the
significance of the unity of peoples against genocidaires, especially
today, when a new wave of genocidal action has been unleashed against
the indigenous Assyrians and the Armenians of Syria and Iraq.
Fred Nile told the assembly of his pride in having the framed
photographs of the Holy Monastery of Panayia Soumela Trapezountas in
his parliamentary office, gifts of the Pontian associations of New
South Wales at the 2013 Genocide Commemoration.
In his message to the commemorative event, Consul-General of Greece
in Sydney Dr Stavros Kyrimis stated that it is our obligation to
humanity to remind everyone of the values of Western civilisation:
acceptance of difference, human rights, democracy.
http://neoskosmos.com/news/en/Genocide-of-Greeks-commemorated