APRIL 24TH IN INDIA
Azat Artsakh Newspaper
April 25, 2010
Nagorno Karabakh Republic
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."