PRESENTATION OF TWO VOLUMES ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE TAKES PLACE IN ANTELIAS
Noyan Tapan
April 24, 2008
ANTELIAS, APRIL 24, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. The presentation of
two new volumes on the Armenian Genocide took place in the Gulbenkian
Hall of the Cilicia Museum in Antelias. This book is a republication of
the book "Voice of Sufferers" released in London in 1922. It contains
letters of the Genocide survivors to their distant relatives.
Speaking about the first volume, Lebanese Armenian intellectual
and lecturer Sargis Kirakosian said that it is a document of lines
written with blood and tears of Armenians who witnessed the Genocide,
it contains letters sent by survivors to their relatives scattered
all over the world, searching them and telling about the tragedy.
The presentation was attended by the Catholicos of Cilicia Aram I,
monks of the Catholicosate of Cilicia, the president of Haykazian
University Paul Haytostian, the head of the Armenian unit of Galust
Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbon) Zaven Yekavian, intellectuals and
representatives of the society.