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    13:43 12/04/2015 ยป POLITICS
    Pope uses word Genocide to describe mass murder of Armenians

    AFP

    reports
    that Pope Francis used the word Genocide on Sunday to describe the 1915
    mass murder of Armenians.

    "In the past century our human family has lived through three massive and
    unprecedented tragedies," he said during a solemn mass in Saint Peter's
    Basilica to mark the centenary of the Ottoman killings of Armenians.

    "The first, which is widely considered 'the first Genocide of the 20th
    century', struck your own Armenian people," he said, quoting a statement
    signed by Pope John Paul II and the Armenian patriarch in 2001.

    Many historians describe the killings as the 20th century's first genocide,
    but Turkey hotly denies the accusation.

    Related: Pope Francis to visit Armenia next year


    http://www.panorama.am/en/politics/2015/04/12/armenian-genocide-rome




    From: A. Papazian
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