Families Of Perished Freedom Fighters Of Gyumri To Get Free Passes

FAMILIES OF PERISHED FREEDOM FIGHTERS OF GYUMRI TO GET FREE PASSES
By Gegham Mkrtchian in Gyumri

AZG Armenian Daily
21/03/2006

On Saturday, Gyumri Municipality handed the families of 84 perished
freedom fighters free passes for city transportation. The passes allow
each member of the family to use transport means free of charge. This
initiative was the fulfillment of Gyumri mayor’s promise.

Military commissar of Gyumri, colonel Martirosian who was present at
the ceremony in Municipality and relatives of the perished thanked
mayor Vartan Ghukasian for appreciating the deed of the freedom
fighters and for the attention that their families are granted. The
mayor said that this will become a tradition as it is our duty to
those who won the victory at the cost of their blood.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS