Greek community of Armenia commemorated victims of Pontic Genocide

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Greek community of Armenia commemorated victims of Pontic Greek Genocide
19.05.2007 14:01 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ February 19, 1994 the Greek parliament proclaimed
May 19 the Remembrance Day of Pontic Greek Genocide perpetrated by
Turks in 1916-1923.

The Greek community of Armenia and representatives of Armenian NGOs
laid wreaths to the memorial to the Armenian Genocide victims. Some
thousand people took part in the event.

353.000 Greeks were systematically exterminated in Asia Minor. The
survivors left for Greece and Russia.

Greeks from Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh fought during in the national
liberation war in Artsakh.

Presently, some 6000 Greeks live in Armenia and some 300 in
Artsakh. They mostly reside in Aleverdy Canyon, Lori plateau, Yerevan,
Noyemberyan and Gyumri.

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