Mass Campaign Commemorating Armenian Genocide Victims To Be Held In

MASS CAMPAIGN COMMEMORATING ARMENIAN GENOCIDE VICTIMS TO BE HELD IN MOSCOW

YEREVAN, April 12. /ARKA/. Armenian Youth Association of Moscow will
organize on April 21 a mass campaign to raise public awareness about
and protest against Turkey’s continuous denial of the Armenian Genocide
committed by the Ottoman Empire in 1915.

The campaign coordinators say the activists will spread out nearly
5,000 red masks through the 500-square-meter map of the Ottoman
Empire. The masks will symbolize the killed people. After this,
the protesters will line up into “Turkey, justice will prevail!” words.

A year earlier, the Association organized a campaign like that.

Several hundreds of protesters, wearing red clothes to symbolize the
slaughter perpetrated by the Young Turks, unfurled a huge poster
saying “The 1915 Armenian Genocide is a crime with no statute of
limitation. Justice will triumph.”

Armenian genocide was the first genocide committed in XX century.

Turkey denies the accusation of massacres and the killing of one and
a half million Armenians during World War I.

The fact of the Armenian genocide is recognized by many countries,
particularly by Russia, Germany, France, Netherlands, Vatican,
Lithuania, Slovakia, Sweden, Venezuela, Lebanon, 42 of the U.S.

states, as well as by the parliaments of Greece, Cyprus, Argentina,
Belgium, National Council of Switzerland, Common House of Canada,
the Sejm of Poland, lower house of Italian parliament, European
Parliament, World Council of Churches. -0-