APRIL 24 – 92nd ANNIVERSARY OF THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE. MANY COMMEMORATION EVENTS PLANNED
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The Westender, Australia
April 10 2007

Armenians worldwide will be commemorating the First Genocide of the
20th Century with solemn religious and civil ceremonies.

April 24, 2007 marks the 92nd Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.

Armenians worldwide will be commemorating the First Genocide of the
20th Century with solemn religious and civil ceremonies. Along with
the Armenian people, prominent celebrities and statesmen will be
participating in this day of remembrance.

Since April of 2003, GenocideEvents.com has undertaken the task of
informing the general public, as a community service, of the events
commemorating the Armenian Genocide. The public is encouraged to attend
the functions in their area of residence, watch Armenian Genocide
video clips/flash presentation and reflect upon the horrors which
fell upon the Armenian Nation and Armenian people in the beginning
of the last century.

During WWI, The Young Turk, political faction of the Ottoman Empire,
sought the creation of a new Turkish state extending into Central
Asia. Those promoting the ideology called "Pan Turkism" (creating a
homogenous Turkish state) now saw its Armenian minority population
as an obstacle to the realization of that goal.

On April 24, 1915, several hundred Armenian community leaders and
intellectuals in Constantinople (modern day Istanbul) were arrested,
sent east, and put to death. In May, after mass deportations had
already begun, Minister of the Interior Talaat Pasha ordered their
deportation into the Syrian Desert.

The adult and teenage males were separated from the deportation
caravans and killed under the direction of Young Turk functionaries.

Women and children were driven for months over mountains and desert,
often raped, tortured, and mutilated. Deprived of food and water and
often stripped of clothing, they fell by the hundreds & thousands
along the routes to the desert. Ultimately, more than half the
Armenian population, 1,500,000 people were annihilated. In this
manner the Armenian people were eliminated from their homeland of
several millennia.

On April 29, 1915, Henry Morgenthau, Sr. United States Ambassador
to the Ottoman Empire had stated that "I am confident that the whole
history of human race contains no such terrible episode as this. The
great massacres and persecutions of the past seem almost insignificant
when compared to the sufferings of the Armenian race in 1915."

In 1915, thirty-three years before UN Genocide Convention was adopted,
the Armenian Genocide was condemned by the international community
as a crime against humanity.

For more information, visit or e-mail
Contact@GenocideEvents.com

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From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress