Two Commemoration Events Held In France

TWO COMMEMORATION EVENTS HELD IN FRANCE

ArmRadio.am
23.04.2007 12:20

Two initiatives in France marked the commemorations of the 92nd
anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, independent correspondent Jean
Eckian informs from France.

Thus, during the past two days, in front of the cathedral Notre-Dame de
Paris, several thousand people came to give their support for a joint
operation carried out by "Collectif VAN" Armenian association and
"Collective Darfour Urgency", which aimed at sensitizing the public
on the negation of the Armenian Genocide by Turkey and the urgency
to assist Darfour’s population’s exterminated.

In an another commemoration event, the French writer of Armenian
origin, Denis Donikian, and Michel Atalay, French of Turkish origin,
member of the political Greens Party, laid a wreath of flowers in front
of the Komitas’s statue , in the presence of representatives of the two
communities to pay homage "to all victims of the genocide perpetrated
in Ottoman Empire in 1915, and particularly to the Armenians."

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS