IRAN’S ETHNIC MINORITY MARKS “GENOCIDE” OF ARMENIANS IN OTTOMAN TURKEY
Islamic Republic News Agency
April 24 2012
Iran
Tehran, 24 April: Hundreds of Tehrani Armenians commemorated the mass
slaughter of Armenians by Turkey 97 years ago.
In a ceremony held on the anniversary of the mass killing on Tuesday
morning [24 April], the Armenian Archbishop of Tehran Sebouh Sarkissian
said despite nearly a century elapsed after the dreadful event,
the world Armenians will never forget the genocide.
He said the Armenian officials will strongly defend the rights of
the martyrs of the slaughter.
Armenia’s ambassador to Tehran, Armenians’ representative in the
Iranian parliament, Armenian dignitaries and ordinary people taking
part in the ceremony, too, paid tribute to the memory of the victims
of the mass slaughter by the Ottoman Empire by laying wreaths at a
site erected in their memories.
They also called for an official apology by the Turkish government.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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