PRESS RELEASE
ANC Toronto
Contact: Mr. Hratch Aynedjian
Tel: 416-816-2482
Web:
April 20, 2009
Armenian Community of Toronto Commemorates
94th Anniversary of Armenian Genocide
Toronto, Ontario – The Canadian-Armenian Community of Toronto will be
commemorating the 94th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide of 1915.
Over 1.5 million Armenians perished in a systematic effort by the
Turkish government of the Ottoman Empire to eliminate the indigenous
Armenian population living peacefully on its historic homelands. It was
the Armenian Genocide which introduced the spectre of holocaust to the
20th Century; a crime that has since been duplicated in various forms in
Nazi Germany, Rwanda and Darfur.
Date: Sunday, April 26, 2009
Time: 2:00p.m. to 4:00p.m.
Location: Armenian Community Centre, 45 Hallcrown Place, Willowdale
(major intersection Victoria Park Ave. and Highway 401)
Representatives from all major Canadian political parties and all levels
of government will be participating. There will be a wreath laying
ceremony at the `Rebirth’ genocide monument at the
Armenian Community Centre immediately following the ceremony.
It is expected that 800 members of the Canadian-Armenian Community of
Toronto will attend.
For further information on the Armenian Genocide, please see the
Armenian National Committee of Canada website at
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