RA President’s address on April 24

ArmRadio.am
24.04.2007 11:38

`Dear compatriots,

Every year on April 24 we commemorate the memory of the innocent
victims of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Turkey. But we always
keep the memory of this crime in our souls.

Many countries of the world remember and commemorate this day together
with the Armenian people. The international community has realized
that the genocide is a crime not only against a separate nation, but
the whole humanity. The denial and concealment of the genocide is a
crime not less than its preparation and perpetration.

Trials and injustice have the feature to unify. The disaster of
genocide enhanced the feeling of Armenian identity, made the Armenian
nation unite and strengthened the wish to have an independent
state. Being the expression of centuries-old dream of the Armenian
nation, the Republic of Armenia should flourish and develop as the
Motherland of all Armenians. Strong, democratic and prospering Armenia
should be the response of the Armenian people to the perpetrators and
deniers of the Armenian Genocide.

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