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    Emil Lazarian
  • 3 years ago
    • Categories: 2022

Karabakh to stage torchlight procession for Armenian Genocide recognition

PanArmenian
Armenia –
– 12:30 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net - The youth chapter of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation Dashnaktsutyun will stage a torchlight procession in Stepanakert, the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh), to shed a light on the Armenian Genocide and demand recognition and justice on April 23.

"Nothing has changed in the program of our enemies since 1915. The same genocidal policy is applied to Artsakh today," people behind the initiative said in a statement.

"Therefore, saying no to that policy, making our desire to live audible to everyone, raising national resistance becomes the duty of every Artsakh citizen."

The people of Artsakh join folks in Armenia every year to take up torches and march for the condemnation of the Armenian Genocide.

On April 24, 1915, a large group of Armenian intellectuals was rounded up and assassinated in Constantinople by the Ottoman government. On April 24, 2022, Armenians worldwide will be commemorating the 107th anniversary of the Genocide which continued until 1923. Some three dozen countries, hundreds of local government bodies and international organizations have so far recognized the killings of 1.5 million Armenians as Genocide. Turkey denies to this day.

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