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ARMENIAN GENOCIDE VICTIMS COMMEMORATED IN ROSTOV-ON-DON

28.04.2005 05:28

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ April 24 victims of the Armenian Genocide in Turkey were
commemorated in Rostov-on-Don. At noon flowers and wreaths were laid to the
Khachkar memorial, set next to St. Karapet church, reported the Yerkramas,
the newspaper of Armenians of Russia. St. Karapet church building was not
able to accommodate all those gathered. Unfortunately, it is not designed
for a mass flow of people and there were really many. Thus the main part of
the liturgy in the memory of the innocent victims was held next to the
Khachkar. Armenia’s Consul General to the Southern Federal District Ararat
Gomstian was present at the event. A memorial evening of victims of the
Armenian Genocide in Turkey was also held in Surb Khach Temple, where
prayers, poems and evidence of the descendants of the witnesses of the
Genocide in 1915-1922 were heard. The main events marking the 90-th
anniversary of the Armenian Genocide had been held earlier. Thus, a round
table sitting titled `NO TO GENOCIDE, NO TO WAR, NO TO TERROR’ was held
April 18. Armenian Genocide – a Bloody Page in Human History seminar was
held in Surb Khach museum monastery April 23. The fact that April 16 a large
article titled Genocide Should not be Forgotten was published in Academy
scientific and education weekly of the South of Russia. In the article
Doctor of Juridical Sciences, Professors Yu. Prusakov and L. Akopov provide
convincing proofs that it is inadmissible to forget the Armenian Genocide in
Turkey as a crime against humanity according to the international law, as
well as the need of its denunciation by all UN member states, including
Turkey. The latter should not be admitted to the EU without the
acknowledgement and censure of the crimes in its history – just like the FRG
acted toward the Holocaust victims.