‘I HAVE NO WORDS TO DESCRIBE WHAT I SAW’
By Gohar Gevorgian
AZG Armenian Daily
27/04/2006
President of Lithuania at Armenian Genocide Memorial
It’s hard to express one’s feelings while seeing a man’s cruelty
towards other man. Perhaps there is no language that could offer
words justifying such acts.
These were the words of Valdas Adamkus, president of Lithuania, that
he wrote in the memory book of the Armenian Genocide Museum after
visiting it with his wife Alma Adamkine and the Lithuanian delegation.
Justice minister Davit Harutyunian and Yerevan mayor Yervand
Zakharian accompanied the Lithuanian delegation at the Armenian
genocide Memorial.
Head of the Genocide Museum Lavrenti Barseghian presented the Armenian
history at large, the atrocities by the Turkish government and lives of
some of the genocide victims. The leader of the state that recognized
the Genocide on December 15 2004 presented the museum a gift saying:
“This is simply our symbolic appreciation as we have no words to
express what we saw.”
After lying a wreath at the Memorial the Lithuanian president planted
his second tree in the area of the Museum promising to visit time
after time to see how it grows. Lavrenti Barseghian, on his part,
promised to take care of the tree.