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Armenian version:

ARAM I: "ONE CANNOT SILENCE THE VOICE OF JUSTICE AND FREEDOM"

The assassination of Hrant Dink, a prominent Armenian journalist, the
Editor-in-chief of the Armenian-Turkish by-lingual weekly "Agos", and a
vehement critique of Turkish anti-human rights behavior, generated a strong
reaction in many parts of the world.

Commenting on this tragedy, the Armenian Pontiff His Holiness Aram I said:
"Hrant Dink was a man of faith and vision. He was a committed journalist who
had the courage to question all attempts depicting the Armenian Genocide,
the first Genocide of the 20th century as a "fiction" or "alleged". He had
the courage to challenge the present Turkey to reconcile with its past by
recognizing the Armenian Genocide, planned and executed by the
Turkish-Ottoman Empire. Accepting the truth and respecting the human rights
were prerequisite conditions for Hrant Dink, leading people and nations to
reconciliation.

In fact, one cannot kill the truth by physically killing the messenger of
it. One cannot silence the voice of justice by neutralizing its advocate.

The Armenian Cause is a cause of justice. The sons of the one and a half
million Armenian martyrs will continue their non-violent struggle for
justice", said His Holiness Aram I.

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The Armenian Catholicosate of Cilicia is one of the two Catholicosates of
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