ARMENIANS OF BEIRUT URGED TURKEY TO RECOGNIZE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
18:48, 24 April, 2013
YEREVAN, APRIL 24, ARMENPRESS: During the march on occasion of Armenian
Genocide anniversary thousands of Armenians in Lebanese capital Beirut
urged Turkey to recognize Armenian Genocide. As reports Armenpress,
referring to dailystar.com, participants of the event were holding
anti-Turkish posters and singing Armenian songs. “Turkey has to
recognize Armenian Genocide and make some compensation steps,” Paul
Halebian said.
There is an Armenian community of 200,000 people living in Lebanon
with 5 Armenian ministers in the country.
The fact of the Armenian Genocide by the Ottoman government has
been documented, recognized, and affirmed in the form of media
and eyewitness reports, laws, resolutions, and statements by many
states and international organizations. The complete catalogue
of all documents categorizing the 1915 wholesale massacre of the
Armenian population in Ottoman Empire as a premeditated and thoroughly
executed act of genocide is extensive. Uruguay was the first country
to officially recognize the Armenian Genocide in 1965. The massacres
of the Armenian people were officially condemned and recognized as
genocide in accordance with the international law by France, Germany,
Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland, Sweden, Russia, Poland,
Lithuania, Greece, Slovakia, Cyprus, Lebanon, Uruguay, Argentina,
Venezuela, Chile, Canada, Vatican, and Australia.
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