ACTIVITY DEDICATED TO ARMENIAN GENOCIDE VICTIMS IN OTTOMAN EMPIRE IN 1915 HELD IN SWEDEN

ARKA News Agency, Armenia
April 24 2006

YEREVAN, April 24. /ARKA/. An activity dedicated to the Armenian
genocide victims in Ottoman Empire in 1915 was held in Upsala,
Sweden. The coordination center of Armenian unions of Sweden reported
that hundreds of Armenians, Swedes, representatives of political
entities and NGOs kept a moment of silence in the memory of the
Armenian genocide victims.

During the activity the professor of the university of Lund, the
author of the books “From Ararat to Nagorno-Karabakh” and “History
of the Genocide” Claus-Joran Karlsson held a lecture. In his turn,
the MP Ulla Hoffman pointed out the necessity for Sweden and other
European countries to support Armenia.

She denounced the Turkish policy of denying the genocide. “Without
Turkey’s recognizing the genocide and reconsidering her past,
development of real Armenian-Turkish relations and reconciliation
cannot be attained,” she said.

The representative of the green party, the member of Upsala’s town
council and candidate to Riksdag Helena Liedner pointed out that the
Swedish society should know about the Armenian genocide as much as
it knows about the Jews’ holocaust.

This activity was organized on the initiative of the Coordination
center of Armenian Unions of Sweden and the Armenian Cultural Union
of Upsala with the support of church councils, “Hayastan” All-Armenian
Foundation and the country’s NGOs.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress