Lebanon Stamp To Honor Armenian ‘Martyrs’

LEBANON STAMP TO HONOR ARMENIAN ‘MARTYRS’

The Daily Star, Lebanon
Jan 28 2014

January 28, 2014 01:26 PM (Last updated: January 28, 2014 02:43 PM)
The Daily Star

BEIRUT: Caretaker Minister of Telecommunications Nicolas Sehnaoui
announced Tuesday the commission of a stamp to honor the martyrs of
the Armenian Genocide in 1915.

Lebanon has a large and vocal Armenian community with around 200,000
Lebanese of Armenian origin in the country, a result of forced
displacement after the partition of the Ottoman Empire at the end of
the World War I.

While Turkey still resolutely denies genocide took place, last April
saw over 10,000 Armenians rallying in Downtown Beirut on the 98th
anniversary of the genocide.

The stamp depicts a drawing of a statue honoring Armenian martyrs
found in Bikfaya.

The stamp will be in circulation in a month’s time.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2014/Jan-28/245558-lebanon-stamp-to-honor-armenian-martyrs.ashx#axzz2rj9tDD5C

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Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS