Ukrainia: Crimea Commemorates Displaced Armenians, Bulgarians, Greek

CRIMEA COMMEMORATES DISPLACED ARMENIANS, BULGARIANS, GREEKS

NRCU – Ukrainian Radio
24-06-2009 10:55

Crimea has today commemorated the Armenians, Bulgarians and Greeks
that were forcibly displaced from the peninsula 65 years ago.

Representatives of the Armenian, Bulgarian and Greek national and
cultural communities, as well as the Crimean residents have gathered
together at the Simferopol railway station to commemorate the victims
of the deportation 1944 and lay flowers to a memorable plaque. On May
18, 1944, the Stalin regime forcibly displaced about 200,000 of the
Crimea Tatars from Crimea. They were accused of collaboration with
the fascists. On June 24, 1944 the same happened to the Armenians,
Bulgarians and Greeks.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

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