SPECIAL EVENT IN WALES FOR THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE & JEWISH HOLOCAUST
Wales Commemorates the Armenian Genocide & Jewish Holocaust in Cardiff
as part of Holocaust Memorial Day on Wednesday, 26 January 2005, at
7:00 pm.
CRAG has actively supported this open public event at the Temple of
Peace in Cathays Park in Cardiff, Wales. Attending are the Chair of
CRAG as well as other Board Members, Father Shnork Baghdassarian and
other Church representatives as well as participants from different
communities. The key speaker is Mike Joseph, with contributions from
other speakers that represent Welsh political parties as well as
Armenian and Jewish participants.
Hereunder is the Press Release from Wales-Armenia Solidarity, an
associate of CRAG, on this important event that will address both the
Armenian Genoicde and Jewish Holocaust in the presence of political
and religious dignitaries: “On the Eve of Holocaust Memorial Day,The
Political, Cultural, and Religious Elite of Wales once more gather in
Solidarity with the Armenian and Jewish victims of Turkish and Nazi
Crimes against Humanity At The Temple of Peace, Cardiff, capital of
Wales, a nation emerging from 700 years of English misrule, on 26th
January, representatives of all Religious denominations, the
Presidentof the National Cultural Festival and the leaders all
political parties, including the First Minister of the National
Assembly Rhodri Morgan gather to commemmorate the Armenian victims of
genocide perpetrated by the Turkish State in 1894-96, 1909, and
1915-23 and the Jewish victims of the1939-45 Holocaust.
On this issue unanimity of opinion has been reached and this
establishes a moral challenge to the U.K. government’s position of
conniving to aid Turkey’s accesion into the European Union without any
pre-condition of Recognition of its past crimes against the Armenian
nation.
The main speaker will be Mike Joseph, the authority on the close
connection between the Armenian Genocide and the Jewish
Holocaust. Welsh and Armenian choirs will participate at this
occassion. I It was the Welshman David Lloyd George, who was Prime
minister of Britain from 1916-22, who recognised Britain’s guilt in
the matter. He wrote in 1932 in “The Truth about Peace Treaties”: ” It
was the actions of the British government that led to the massacres of
1894-96, 1909 and worst of all, thethe Holocaust of 1915″.
True to tradition today’s British government continue to turn a blind
eye to Turkey’s genocidal policies towards Armenia.”
You can also read the announcement for this event on the weblink for
the Welsh Centre for International Affairs at and
referenceis made to it as well on the official governmental weblink
on: