French-Armenians voice support for Kurds, Yazidis

15:00 25.08.2014

On Saturday, Aug. 23, around 600 people demonstrated in Paris to show
their support to Kurds and Yazidis–victims of massacres committed by
the Islamic State (IS) in Iraqi Kurdistan–and to advocate for
humanitarian aid for those who were forced to flee, Jean Eckian
reports from Paris.

The group included representatives from the Coordination Council of
Armenian Organizations of France (CCAF) and the Armenian Institute of
France.

Pastor RenÃ© Leonian in a message of support to the Kurdish and Yazidi
communities, said, “We want to say emphatically to our Yazidi
brothers, Kurdish brothers, Alevi brothers, and Christian brothers of
all faiths–whether Assyrian-Chaldeans, Armenians and others–we
denounce these crimes against humanity; we denounce this genocide.”

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

http://www.armradio.am/en/2014/08/25/french-armenians-voice-support-for-kurds-yazidis/

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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