CANADIAN ARMENIANS TO MARK 95TH ANNIVERSARY OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

PanARMENIAN.Net
25.02.2010 11:49 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Armenian organizations of Canada, three traditional
parties (Armenian Revolutionary Federation Dashnaktsutyun, Ramkavar
Azatakan and Social Democrat Hunchakian party), cultural and sports
unions are determined to mark the 95th anniversary of Armenian Genocide
in the Ottoman Empire.

"We call on Armenians and Armenian organizations of Canada to support
and join all events and initiatives," the Congress of Armenians of
Canada said in a statement obtained by PanARMENIAN.Net. "The 95th
anniversary should become the climacteric of our struggle for justice,
for the international recognition of the Armenian Genocide."

The Armenian Genocide (1915-23) was the deliberate and systematic
destruction of the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire during
and just after World War I. It was characterized by massacres, and
deportations involving forced marches under conditions designed to
lead to the death of the deportees, with the total number of deaths
reaching 1.5 million.

The majority of Armenian Diaspora communities were formed by the
Genocide survivors.

To date, twenty countries and 44 U.S. states have officially recognized
the events of the period as genocide, and most genocide scholars and
historians accept this view.