Pan Armenian News
LVOV: RALLY ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE 90-TH ANNIVERSARY
24.04.2005 07:19
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Some 1 thousand Lvov resident, mostly Armenians, rally in
the city center on the 90-th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide in 1915.
The rally participants went along Lvov central streets to the monument to
Taras Shevchenko. Priests were in the forepart of the procession, whose
participants have red carnations and lighted candles in their hands. They
carry transparencies: `All those not censuring the genocide are its
participants,’ `Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Empire awaits for its
«Nuremberg»’, `Non-acknowledgement of the Armenian Genocide cannot be
justified by any national interests.’ Honorary President of Akhtyur Armenian
Association of Lvov Karapet Bagratuni said those gathered demand that Turkey
and other countries of the world, which have not recognized the Armenian
Genocide, to properly acknowledge it. In his words some 3 thousand Armenians
live in Lvov. Militia does not hamper those gathered. It should be noted
that April 22 unknown people again wrote offensive expressions on the walls
of the Armenian church situated in the center of Lvov.