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PRESS RELEASE
24th April, 2010
APRIL 24th in INDIA
On 24th April, 2010 Armenians in India gathered at the Armenian Genocide
memorial in the premises of the Armenian Holy Church of Nazareth,
Kolkata to commemorate the 95th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide
with a special Requiem service.
Later in the evening, with the performance of the students of the
Armenian College and Philanthropic Academy, a cultural programme in the
memory of the Armenian Genocide victims started with `Ave
Maria’ by an Armenian renowned singer in India, Shayne Hyrapiet.
During the commemoration, Very Rev. Fr. Khoren Hovhannisyan, Pastor of
Armenians in India and His Excellency Ara Hakobyan, Ambassador of the
Republic of Armenians to India addressed the gathered. `The
whole nation was nailed on the cross only because they were
Armenians… the wound left behind from the Armenian Genocide is
not recovering, it is still bleeding because of Turkish denial
…Dear friends, young and old, specially the students of the
Armenian College let us make a promise now to our 1.5 million victims
that we will do our utmost to bring justice for them. Let us make a
promise that we will never forget the first Genocide of the 20th century
and will fight to crush Turkish denial in every possible way’
concluded Fr. Khoren.
During the commemoration, Most Rev. Lucas Sirkar, the Catholic
Archbishop of Kolkata concluded the evening with his words of comfort
`No one can delete the Armenian Genocide from history as long as
there is even a single person living on earth.’