COMMON PAIN MONUMENT UNVEILED IN TURKEY’S DIYARBEKIR
Vestnik Kavkaza, Russia
Aug 16 2013
16 August 2013 – 10:33am
The Common Pain Monument has been unveiled in Diyarbekir (Turkey)
to honour Armenians, Kurds, Chaldeans, Jews, Assyrians, Azidis and
Muslims killed before and after the Turkish Republic, News.am reports.
The monument consists of a book thrown into fire. The book depicts
a tearful eye. The monument weighs a ton and has a 3×2-meter message
written in Armenian, Turkish, Kurdish, Hebrew, Arabian and English: “We
have brought our pain together so that it would never happen again”.
Abdullah Demirmas, Sura Mayor in Diyarbekir, said that it was common
pain and everyone should never let it happen again.
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