AZG Armenian Daily #067, 15/04/2005

Armenian Genocide

STUDENTS GETTING READY TO MARK THE 90TH ANNIVERSARY

The Armenian youth will play a great part in organizing arrangements at the
threshold of the 90th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. Students from
several universities presented their programs on April 13. The All-Armenian
Youth Fund (AYF) will sponsor an electronic exhibition “Unblown Spring” on
April 23. Works dedicated to the Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey in 1915
will be presented at the Yerevan State Architecture University and
afterwards they will be posted on the AYF website.

The arrangement is organized by the Yerevan State Architecture University,
Academy of Fine Arts, State Institute of Theatre and Cinema State
Engineering University and the Armenian-Russian State University. The
students of the Theatre and Cinema Institute will present a musical literary
composition.

Like last year, this year as well the AYF and students of the Architectural
University will organize an e-mail march sending genocide condemning
messages to representatives of countries that has not recognized the
Genocide.

Around 500 thousand students will march to Tsitsernakaberd, Monument to the
Genocide Victims, in 90 files symbolizing the anniversary. Besides the
anti-genocide posters, students will hoist banners numerated “1915”, “1916”,
“1917”… “2004”, “2005”, symbolizing the period of Turkey’s impunity.

On April 18 and 21, the State Academy of Fine Arts and the Armenian-Russian
University will put on an exhibition of materials connected with the
Genocide.

Astghik Avetisian, press secretary of All-Armenian Youth Fund, said that the
pilgrimage to the desert of Deir el-Zor was canceled due to technical
problems.

By Tamar Minasian