IN HONOR OF ARMENIANS
Cranston Herald, RI
May 8 2013
Steve Popiel
Raising the flag.
Mayor Allan Fung led the city of Cranston in the 13th annual raising
of the Armenian flag in memory of those who perished during the
genocide during World War I. The Armenian flag raising ceremony was in
memory of the 1,500,000 Armenian men, women and children who lost
their lives during that period in history. There are approximately
12,000 Armenians in Rhode Island. Pictured in the Council Chambers is
Sarkis Yepremian receiving a citation from Mayor Allan Fung. For the
past 13 years, the city of Cranston, in conjunction with the Armenian
National Committee of RI, has raised the Armenian flag in
commemoration of the Ottoman Turkish government’s attempt to eliminate
the Christian Armenians from the ancestral homes through planned
genocide during World War I. The tragedy is widely known and accepted
by scholars, historians and most of the civilized world as the first
genocide of the 20th century, a precursor to the Holocaust.
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