ARMENIAN GENOCIDE SQUARE’S MEMORIAL STONE IN MONTEVIDEO TO BE UNVEILED
ON APRIL 22
MONTEVIDEO, APRIl 11, NOYAN TAPAN. At the instructions of mayor of
Uruguay’s capital Montevideo Adolfo Peres Piera, one of the city
squares will be named Armenian People Genocide Square. Uruguay’s
Armenian Cause Commission and the Armenian Diocese Central Department,
the Vramian Club and “Komitas” radio-hour issued a joint report,
according to which a decision has been made to erect at the square a
memorial stone which will be unvailed on April 22. The organizations
expressed gratitude on behalf of Uruguay’s Armenian community and the
whole Armenian people to the authors of the initiative to honor in
such a way the memory of the numerous victims of the Armenian
genocide. They informed that about a year ago Raffi Hunanian, a member
of Montevideo’s city council proposed naming one of the city streets
“1915, April 24”, however, after dicussing this proposal, the city
council made on March 30 a unianimous decision to allocate an area
abutting on one of the city’s busiest streets and name this area
“Armenian People Genocide Square”. The Armenian organizations of
Uruguay remind that in 1965 – the year of the 50th anniversary of the
Armenian genocide, Uruguay was the first country to officialy
recognize the Great Genocide, and has always supported the Armenian
people over the last 40 years. To recap, there is already Armenia
Square in Montevideo.