ME DELEGATION VISITS URUGUAY, ARGENTINE ARMENIANS
Reporter, Beirut, 9 April 2014
Famed Turkish author-publisher Ragip Zarakolu of Turkey and a
Lebanese-Armenian journalistic delegation will join Armenians of
Uruguay and Argentina this year to commemorate the 99th anniversary
of the Genocide of Armenians.
Argentina and Uruguay are two Latin American states, along with Brazil,
which opened their welcoming arms to the survivors of the Genocide
of Armenians and the Assyrians and their offspring. Uruguay also has
the proud distinction of being the first state to recognize (1965)
the Genocide.
The Lebanese delegation will include Hamo Moskofian, the international
correspondent of Keghart.com, Tidag Magazine and Dr. Eddie Racoubian,
photographer and son of Tidag’s founding publisher Dr. Sam Racoubian.
They were invited by journalist and Social Democrat Hunchakian
Party (SDHP) representative Diego Karamoungian (Arax Radio in
Montevideo), Sergio Nahabedian (AGBU and RAG) and Diana Der Garabedian
(editor-in-chief, Sardarabad weekly).
The delegation will hold meetings with political, cultural and
religious figures and conduct interviews with the media. Among the
prominent people they meet will be Uruguay’s Minister of Tourism
Liliam Keshishian and Johana Riva Garabedian, Miss Uruguay.
On April 24 a commemorative march will head to the Armenian Genocide
Memorial in Montevideo. Speeches by Mr. Zarakolu and Hamo Moskofian
will follow.
The Lebanese-Armenian journalists will then head to Buenos Aires for
a another busy schedule of gatherings and interviews.
Ragip Zarakoglu at Capitol Hill For Armenian Genocide April 9, 2014
Buenos Aires City Legislature approved two projects on Armenian
Genocide
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The Buenos Aires City Legislature issued on April 3 a statement
written by legislatorsVirginia Gonzalez Gass and Maria Raquel Herrero
to commemorate April 24 as the “Day of the First Genocide of the 20th
Century”, on the “99th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.”
The Legislature also approved a project submitted by the legislator
Pablo Ferreyra to ask the Ministry of Education to perform “the
necessary arrangements for individual school districts and schools in
the City to carry out curricular activities alluding to the ‘Day of
action for tolerance and respect between people'”, referring to the
Law 26.199 that commemorates the genocide suffered by the armenian
people every April 24.
“Educating on memory is to educate on the respect and protection of
human rights. In this sense, it is essential to promote the inclusion
of the issue of genocide in education, not only to remember but also
to consider the conditions that made possible such aberrant and savage
events”, said Ferreyra in a press statement.