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Published on April 16, 2009
ARMENIAN STUDENTS OF CANADA AGAINST GENOCIDE IN DARFUR
- On April 17, more than 45 students from the A.R.S. Armenian Private School (Canada) will be participating in 24 in April for Darfur, a twenty four hour fast dedicated to raising funds for and awareness about the ongoing genocide in Darfur and to simultaneously commemorate the 94th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide which is normally marked on April 24, thus the significance of the 24 hours. All the students participating are the decedents of the survivors from the Armenian Genocide and have vowed to work collectively to insure the atrocities and consequences of the crime of genocide are not experienced by any other community. Nareh Galustiants the Vice President of the club said “As Canadian Armenians we are obliged to strive to establish a society free from discrimination and a world free from the horrors of genocide. It is not only never again for us but never again for the world.” The event is organized by the school's Humanitarian Club which is comprised of students from various grades.
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Today in Armenian history- 1879 Death in Moscow (Russia) of Stepanos Nazaryan, editor of the "Aurora Borealis". He was born in 1812.
- 1918 The "Messenger Book" daily is published in Tbilissi (Georgia): the first Soviet newspaper in Armenian.
- 1923 The Soviet of People's Committee of the Armenian SSR creates the State Cinema of Soviet Armenia (HayFilm).
- 1953 Academician Hrachia Atcharyan (linguist) dies in Yerevan. He was born in 1876.
- 1958 Death of composer Vagharshak Srvandztian.
- 1959 The Armenian SSR Supreme Soviet confirms the new Education Policy of Armenia.
- 1984 The US House of Representatives accepts a resolution (number 247) requesting that the Government announce that 1985 04 24 be designated a "National Day of Commemoration of Man's Inhumanity to Man".
- 1984 The Permanent People's Tribunal recognized the Armenian Genocide.
- 1998 An international seminar took place in the Sorbonne (Paris) on the Armenian Genocide. It was organized by the Armenian Revolutionary Federation Party and financed by the See of Cilicia.
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