Events dedicated to Armenian Genocide 98th anniversary held in Tbili

Events dedicated to Armenian Genocide 98th anniversary held in Tbilisi

10:06, 26 April, 2013

YEREVAN, APRIL 26, ARMENPRESS: Different events dedicated to the
memory of the innocent victims of the Armenian Genocide were held in
Tbilisi. As reported by Armenpress, the Saint Etchmiadzin Church gave
a Holy Liturgy commemorating the 98th anniversary of the Tragedy.

During the ceremony the Head of the Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic
Orthodox Church in Georgia, His Grace Bishop Vazgen Mirzakhanyan
declared about the announcement made by His Holiness Karekin II,
Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians and the Head of the
Catholicosate of the Great House of Cilicia Aram I, appealing to the
Georgian state to recognize the Armenian Genocide, compensate the
losses and the violation of the human and national rights of the
Armenian people, as well as return to the Armenians all the Armenian
churches, temples, church estates and spiritual and cultural values.

After the ceremony the gathered people directed to the Turkish Embassy
in Tbilisi to hold a large-scale protest action.

All the speakers of the rally condemned the Great Armenian Genocide
demanding to recognize it and compensate for the lives of the people,
whose crime was just to be Armenians.

The protest action held in front of the Turkish Embassy in Tbilisi was
covered by different mass media channels of Georgia.

From: Baghdasarian