ArmRadio – Public Radio, Armenia
Oct 13 2007
The film `Screamers’ will be screened in the European Parliament in
tribute to Hrant Dink
13.10.2007 11:42
The Euro-Armenian Federation announces that 29 countries will be
represented in the Second Convention of European Armenians which is
due to be held soon. The participants – mainly leading members of the
Armenian Diaspora of Europe – and other personalities with
responsibilities in the political and associative domains are
interested in the Armenian Question and will be attending from the
European Union Countries – Germany, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria,
Cyprus, Denmark, Spain, Estonia, France, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg,
the Netherlands, Romania, Slovenia, Slovakia, Sweden, the Czech
Republic and the United Kingdom. Furthermore, participants will
travel from Armenia, Canada, the United States, Georgia, Iran,
Lebanon, Norway, Russia, Switzerland and Syria.
`The capacity of the convention to mobilise demonstrates the extent
to which the Armenian issues constitute a focal point of interest for
a number of important European citizens and also for many
international observers’ commented Laurent Leylekian, the executive
director of the Euro-Armenian Federation.
In addition, the Federation announces that the film `Screamers’, an
exceptional documentary co-produced by the BBC, which by analysing
the workings of denials of genocides demonstrates their similarities,
will be screened in the European Parliament after the first session,
from 6:30pm to 8:00pm and in the presence of the film’s director,
Carla Garapedian who is a winner of the prestigious Emmy Award.
`With this unique venue, we will be able to show to those European
political personalities who often continue to ignore the perverse
speeches of denial and the abjectness of denying. At this hour, when
the European Parliament appears to give in and surrender its weapons
to the denials of Turkey, we hope that this screening will be able to
remobilise the consciences in face of an ideology which has proven to
be dangerous’ concluded Laurent Leylekian.
The screening of `Screamers’ will honour the memory of Hrant Dink,
Armenian journalist in Turkey, who in January 2007 was assassinated
in Istanbul because he advocated for his country’s recognition of the
Armenian genocide. The current court case against the assassin and
his associates highlighted the direct responsibility of the Turkish
official ideology – racial and denialist – on the motives of the
murder as well as the collusion between the state apparatus and the
killers.