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    Emil Lazarian
  • 20 years ago
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“April 24, 1915 ” street in Montevideo, Uruguay

Square named after Armenian Genocide

13.04.2005 13:41

YEREVAN (YERKIR) – Uruguay capital’s city council passed a decision on
March 30 to name a broad strip in the central Montevideo the Square of
the Armenian People’s Genocide.

A motion to name one of Montevideo’s streets “April 24, 1915,” was
introduced to the city council by its member Raffi Hunanian about a
year ago. Under the same decision, a monument to be officially
unveiled on April 24 will also be erected in the square.

Uruguay was the first country to recognize the Armenian Genocide in
1965, on the eve of the Genocide’s 50th anniversary.

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
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