Morning Star, UK
January 28, 2008 Monday
Britain – Armenians heckled at memorial event
Turkish nationalist protesters heckled Armenians attending the
Holocaust Memorial Day event in Cardiff on Sunday.
The wreath-laying event, held outside the Temple of Peace in Cathays
Park, attracted the displeasure of the self-styled Committee for the
Protection of Turkish Rights, which previously sent 100 protesters to
disrupt a requiem service organised to consecrate the Welsh National
Armenian genocide monument outside the temple on November 3.
Some Turkish nationalists are furious at attempts to remember the
Turkish government’s attempt to wipe out its Armenian population in
1915.
A spokesman for the Welsh Armenian group at Sunday’s event explained
why they were attending Holocaust Memorial Day.
"This is the only public genocide monument in Wales, even in the UK,"
he said.
"We hope that it will become a focus for every other group which has
suffered or has been persecuted.
"Also we hope that Armenian-Jewish friendship will be promoted by
this."