“TURKEY SCARED BY ARMENIAN YOUNGSTERS”
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Thousands of youngsters, headed by Reverend Ter -Tajad uttered the holy prayer altogether at the Genocide Memorial at midnight. This was all illuminated by thousands of torches and candles.
The participants were marching both with excitement and anxiety. The march was accompanied by slogans ' Recognition of Genocide', ' Armenia' and the like. The citizens joined the action by lighting a candle on their window-pills thus expressing their demand for recognition and condemnation of the Genocide.
Gegham Manukyan, representative of the ARF party (Armenian Revolutionary Federation) stated that if 8 years ago only a few people would raise torches, today there were thousands to do so.
Kiro Manoyan, leader of the Armenian Question Committee of ARF Bureau made speeches in front of the crowd, and assured that Turkey was scared of our unification.
Students were holding the flags of the countries to have recognized the Armenian Genocide, whereas schoolchildren were holding the RA flag. ‘‘My friend is a Russian, that’s why I am holding the RF flag,’ Volodya made a joke but at the same time couldn’t help showing his pride to carry the flag.
Hrant from Constantinople was holding the poster with Hrant Dink’s picture. “It is already 100 days that Hrant Dink was killed: we are here to commemorate his death, too. As Armenians we will not feel secure in Constantinople, until the criminals are punished. A terrible atmosphere is reigning in Polis,” he told “A1+”.
‘Dink’s assassination comes to prove that there is a great splitting in Turkey. There is a great struggle for one's identity. We hope sooner or later this struggle will make Turkey reflect upon its sins and they will truly try to receive absolution.’ Kiro Manoyan informed “A1+”.
The Reverend Ter-Hakob Khachatryan explained the essence of the torch-marches.' This is an initiative to inform the historical events and commemorate and speak about their responsibility towards Fatherland.'
Karla Karapetyan, director of the famous movie “Screamers” announced, “This is not an action only for the sake of Armenians but also that of the whole world. Darfur is still suffering genocide.”
To mention, the inspired and enthusiastic youngsters stayed at “Tsitsernakaberd” till 1:00 a.m.
Many of them were even willing to spend the night as guards of honor.
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- 775 Battle of Ardzni (Bagrevand).
- 1877 Tsar Alexander the Second starts the Russian-Turkish War in the Balkans and on the territory of ancient Armenia. The war ended with the victory of Russia.
- 1910 Death of Armenian writer Victoria Azanoor (Pompili). She wrote in Italian. Her books were translated into Armenian by Father Arsen Ghazikian.
- 1915 The arrest, exile and murder of the Armenian intellectuals (about 800) of Constantinople. The Turks start the implementation of their state plan for the Armenian Genocide. About one million Armenians are killed.
- 1937 The Central Committee of the Communist Party of Armenia decides to dissolve the Committee of the Transcaucasian Countries.
- 1965 The Commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide took place in about 25 countries out of respect for the memory of the innocent victims. A monument was unveiled in the Main Cathedral of Echmiadsin. The monument to the memory of the Armenian Genocide in Montebello, California.
- 1968 The World Congress of Peace Movements, with the participation of organizations from 64 countries and of 16 international organizations, commemorated the Armenian Genocide.
- 1973 A monument to the memory of the Armenian Genocide is unveiled in Marseilles, France.
- 1975 Opening of monuments commemorating the memory of the 1915 Armenian Genocide. They were in Bikfaya (Lebanon), Athens (Greece) and Milan (Italy).
- 1978 A monument to the memory of the Armenian Genocide is unveiled in Lyon, France.
- 1984 A monument to the memory of the Armenian Genocide was placed in Alfortville, near Paris.
- 1987 An Armenian stone-cross dedicated to the memory of the Armenian Genocide is unveiled in Stuttgart, Germany.
- 1989 A monument dedicated to the memory of the Armenian Genocide was unveiled in Sydney, Australia.
- 1990 President Bush issued a news release calling on all Americans to join with Armenians on April 24 in commemorating "the more than a million Armenian people who were victims".
- 1994 President Clinton issued a news release on April 24, to commemorate the "tragedy" that befell the Armenians in 1915.
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