OPENING REMARKS BY LOUISE AYNEDJIAN AT THE POLITICAL GATHERING AT THE 95TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE COMMEMORATION OF THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
by Alexander-Michael Hadjilyra
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Saturday 24 April 2010
Nicosia – To complete the cycle of a crime, the perpetrator must
confess and be punished, and the victim must be morally remedied
and compensated.
In the case of our countries – Cyprus and Armenia – the international
community, for the sake of political interests with Turkey, wants
to circumvent this route and with diplomatic jumps erase historical
memories, national dignities and impose against our peoples, either
through protocols or other solutions, a new order of things that
have no relation whatsoever with European values, human rights,
truth and justice.
In order to promote Turkey into the salons of Europe, an attempt
is made not to close this cycle, the recognition, the acceptance,
the punishment… we would add reconciliation as well… Because the
reconciliation of peoples we all desire will never be possible if we
do not succeed in the most important element of this attempt.
95 years after the Genocide, official Turkey has not yet found the
strength to admit its crimes, and unfortunately their voices sound on
the same wavelength with their ancestors, with treats to expel 100.000
Armenians from Turkey, the murder of the voice of Turkish Armenians,
Hrant Dink, the financial blockade and closing of borders with Armenia,
the treats against the Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh and
the denial of the Armenian Genocide reality.
– 95 years later, they ask from the descendants of the survivors, us,
to hush……… invoking protocols and good neighbouring relations.
– 35 and more years, they ask from the Republic of Cyprus to accept
a racist formation, the result of violence, invasion and occupation.
For those who want to dispute the historical truth of the Armenian
Genocide, we refer them not only to the pages of the Armenian history,
but also to the pages of the reality of Cyprus, which are a product of
the same expansionary policy, a militaristic fascistic establishment,
characterised not by civility and peaceful co-existence of peoples,
but rather by violence and barbarity.
The anniversary of the Armenian Genocide finds Armenian parties and
organisations in Cyprus and the Diaspora united to accomplish the
recognition of a history that will lead the way for a sincere and
peaceful co-existence in the region.
In this attempt, the voices in Turkey grow larger in number, by
intellectuals, columnists and politicians who bravely raise their
voice for a different tomorrow.
At the same time, the international community witnesses more and more
countries and parliaments embracing the truth of the Armenian Genocide,
by adopting relevant resolutions.
All of us together, headlong, Armenians and Cypriots, continue to
demand the rights of our people, and 95 years afterwards we decisively
declare that neither time nor any political scenery are capable of
revoking what belongs to us and those that have only temporarily
been lost.