BRITISH PARLIAMENT TO REVIEW DRAFT MEASURE ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE REMEMBRANCE DAY
PanARMENIAN.Net
16.03.2010 11:08 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Lawmakers in London get set to deliberate over a
national day of remembrance for the Armenian Genocide. A measure is
on its way to the British Parliament that if adopted would set aside
an Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day. British lawmakers are to review
a draft of the measure this month.
Nilgun Canver, a council member in the London Borough of Haringey
that there was "no chance" the measure would pass, UPI reported.
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.