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24.04.2012
Remembering genocide: they held their children in their arms and carried into the desert
They held their children in their arms and carried whatever else they could into the desert. Bibles that had been in families for centuries. Handmade lace handkerchiefs made for weddings and baptisms. Documents that listed their names and where they were born. Nearly 100 years after the Armenian Genocide began in the Ottoman Empire, some of those very same items can be found carefully preserved in glass cases and in frames in the San Fernando Valley, a testament of survival, Armenpress... more →
24.04.2012
Radik Martirosyan deems to build powerful Armenia means to realize the dream of Genocide victims
From the early morning the crowd of people ascends Tsitsernakaberd hill to pay tribute to the victims of the Armenian Genocide, to honor the memory of our innocent compatriots who were deprived of their lives to avoid the deal with the enemy. They defended their human dignity, national traditions and religion. The President of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Radik Martirosyan high estimated the fact that the generations who have immediate relations with the history of Armenian... more →
24.04.2012
Turkish Government should recognize Armenian Genocide and friendship relations must be established between the two countries. Hans Johan Schmidt – Ambassador of Germany in Armenia paid a tribute to the victims of Armenian, Armenpress reports. The interlocutor stated that it is already the third year the he visits Tsitsernakaberd Memorial to pay tribute to the victims who died over a hundred years ago. ''We shall go ahead not forgetting the past '' the ambassador... more →
24.04.2012
United States Ambassador avoided using the term Armenian genocide
United States Ambassador to Armenia John Heffern among other heads of accredited diplomatic representations in Armenia visited Cicernakaberd and rose in memory of Armenian genocide innocent victims. "For Armenians today is a very important day and we are here to appeal to memory of massacres of Armenians in 1915," during the briefing told Heffern, Armenpress reports. On April 24 Armenians worldwide rise in memory of Armenian genocide implemented by Ottoman Turkey. More than... more →
24.04.2012
Ceremony commemorating Armenian genocide scheduled in Montebello
Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Pasadena, the lead author of the Armenian Genocide Resolution in Congress, will attend an event Tuesday afternoon at the Montebello Armenian Genocide Monument to commemorate the 97th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. "Armenpress" reports citing pasadenastarnews. Also in attendance at the 1:30 p.m. Tuesday ceremony will be members of the Los Angeles Chapter of United Armenian Council for the Commemoration of the Armenian Genocide, Armenian-Americans, and... more →
24.04.2012
Commemorating the Armenian genocide:Past, present, and future
During World War I, the world witnessed the first genocide of the twentieth century. From 1915 to 1918, 1.5 million Armenians (approximately 50 percent of the Armenian population at that time), along with other minorities living in the Ottoman Empire, were systematically killed by the Ottoman Turks. The Armenian Genocide is commemorated on April 24; it was on this day in 1915 that the Young Turks, the ruling party of the Ottoman Empire, ordered the killing of Armenian intellectuals, leaders,... more →