Libyan interim government adopts resolution recognizing Armenian Genocide

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Libyan interim government adopts resolution recognizing Armenian Genocide Libyan interim government adopts resolution recognizing Armenian Genocide

18:48, 20.04.2019
                  

The Libyan interim government officially adopted in March a resolution recognizing the Armenian Genocide, addresslibya.com reported.

According to the country's Foreign Ministry , the interim government announced on Thursday that the country will commemorate the Armenian Genocide, committed by the Imperial Government of Turkey’s Ottoman Empire.

Addresslibya.com noted that in 24 April 1915, Ottoman authorities rounded up, arrested, and deported from Constantinople (now Istanbul) to the region of Ankara, 235 to 270 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders, the majority of whom were eventually murdered. This was followed by the deportation of women, children, the elderly, and the infirm on death marches leading to the Syrian Desert. Driven forward by military escorts, the deportees were deprived of food and water and subjected to periodic robbery, rape, and massacre. The final death toll of the genocide is reported to be 1.5 million.

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS