FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Ms. Marianne Davitjan
April 18, 2008
Tel: (416) 505 3181
Armenian National Committee Toronto
Armenian Community of Toronto Commemorates 93rd Anniversary of
Armenian Genocide
Toronto, Ontario – The Canadian-Armenian Community of Toronto will
be commemorating the 93rd anniversary of the Armenian Genocide of
1915. Over 1.5 million Armenians perished in a systematic effort by
the Turkish government of the Ottoman Empire to eliminate the
indigenous Armenian population living peacefully on its historic
homelands. It was the Armenian Genocide which introduced the spectre
of holocaust to the 20th Century; a crime that has since been
duplicated in various forms in Nazi Germany, Rwanda and Darfur .
Date: Sunday, April 20, 2008
Time: 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Location: Armenian Youth Centre, 50 Hallcrown Place , Willowdale
(major intersection Victoria Park Ave. and Highway 401)
Members of all levels of Canadian government and major political
parties will be participating.
It is expected that 800 members of the Canadian-Armenian Community of
Toronto will attend.
For further information on the Armenian Genocide, please see the
Armenian National Committee of Canada website at
The Armenian National Committee of Toronto is a chapter of the
Armenian National Committee of Canada, a grassroots organization that
was founded in 1965 to address the concerns of the Canadian Armenian
community on a broad range of issues.
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