TURKISH PROTESTERS DISRUPT HOLOCAUST AND HRANT DINK COMMEMORATIONS

AZG Armenian Daily
30/01/2008

Armenian Genocide

One of the Welsh Armenians said: "This is our holiest shrine. Our
grandparents who perished in the Genocide do not have marked
graves. This is where we remember them" Eilian Williams of Wales
Armenia Solidarity said that he blamed the so-called "Committee for
the Protection of Turkish Rights", under the leadership of Hal Savas
for the crime. We shall repair the cross again and again no matter
how often it is desecrated.

We also challange the UK government and the Turkish Embassy to condemn
this racist attack.

The Holocaust commemoration was a gesture of friendship by Welsh
Armenians towards the Jewish and Roma communities During the
Prayers for the Holocaust victims, the said Turkish Committee used
a loud-speaker to disrupt proceedings. Finally Martin Shipton, chief
reporter for the "Western Mail" the national newspaper of Wales gave
his tribute to Hrant Dink (also representing the National Union of
Journalists). The Turkish protesters also disrupted his speech.