Hour Armenian News April 30 2010 Part 1
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www.romereports.com April 24th is the day the world remembers historys first Christian genocide- the Armenian genocide. Everything insdie the Armenian Genocide Museum in Yerevan, speaks to that day.
Armenians are commemorating the 95th anniversary of the mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks, which claimed the lives of 1.5 million people. Special masses are being held, along with cultural events around the world. Dozens of people in Moscow came out to lay wreaths at the local Armenian church.
Armenians are commemorating the 95th anniversary of the mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks, which claimed the lives of 1.5 million people. Special masses are being held, along with cultural events around the world. Dozens of people in Moscow came out to lay wreaths at the local Armenian church.
Armenians are commemorating the 95th anniversary of the mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks, which claimed the lives of 1.5 million people. Special masses are being held, along with cultural events around the world. Dozens of people in Moscow came out to lay wreaths at the local Armenian church.
www.france24.com Armenians marched in Yerevan on an annual pilgrimage Saturday to honour the victims of mass killings by Ottoman Turks between 1915 and 1917. In France, home to a large expatriate Armenian community, celebrations will be held on Paris’ Champs Elysees. AFP — Tens of thousands of Armenians on Saturday marked the 95th anniversary of mass killings under the Ottoman Empire amid fresh tensions with Turkey over the collapse of reconciliation efforts. As light rain fell over the Armenian capital Yerevan, they marched in procession to lay flowers at a hilltop memorial to the massacres, which Armenians insist constituted genocide. Turkey fiercely rejects the genocide label and the dispute has poisoned relations between the two neighbours for decades. Unprecedented reconciliation efforts begun last year fell apart just before the anniversary, when Armenia announced it was halting ratification of agreements normalising ties. President Serzh Sarkisian, who attended a solemn ceremony at the memorial with the head of the Armenian Apostolic Church, Karekin II, said in a statement that international recognition that the killings constituted genocide was inevitable. “We thank all of those who in many countries of the world, including in Turkey, understand the importance of preventing crimes against humanity and who stand with us in this struggle. This process has an inevitable momentum which has no alternative,” he said. Armenians say up to 1.5 million of their kin were … Read more on Yerevan remembers victims of Armenia Genocide — France 24 (April 24, 2010)…
In 2009, Handel got into a little hot water, when a since-fired sidekick “joked” about the Armenian Genocide, saying, “What the Turks started Bill will finish.” Handel later apologized. Now, in this April 23, 2010 segment, Handel, who is a lawyer and influential talk show host, takes Turkey and Obama to task on the issue of genocide. Read more on Armenian Genocide: Bill Handel blasts Turkey and criticizes Obama…