Des Centaines D’Armeniens Ont Defile A Lyon

DES CENTAINES D’ARMENIENS ONT DEFILE A LYON

Lyon Capitale

25 avril 2012
France

Une partie de la communaute armenienne, estimee a 45 000 personnes
dans le Grand Lyon, a defile mardi après-midi de l’eglise St Jacques
a Lyon 3 jusqu’a la place Antonin Poncet a Lyon 2e. Dans le cadre
de la commemoration du genocide armenien qui a fait 1,5 million de
morts entre 1915 et 1920 en Turquie, les descendants des victimes ont
reclame l’application en France du projet de loi visant a penaliser
la contestation des genocides.

Vote a l’Assemblee nationale et au Senat recemment, ce projet de
loi a ete censure par le conseil constitutionnel. Gerard Collomb,
senateur-maire de Lyon, a pris la parole devant le memorial armenien
en fin d’après midi. Il a assure a la communaute armenienne du
Grand Lyon qu’il continuerait a lui apporter tout son soutien pour
sa reconnaissance.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

http://www.lyoncapitale.fr/Journal/Autre-contenu/Breves/Des-centaines-d-Armeniens-ont-defile-a-Lyon

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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