IN OPINION OF VAHAGN HOVNANIAN, FUTURE GENERATION WILL BE ABLE TO GET BACK ARMENIAN HISTORICAL LANDS
Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
Apr 25 2006
YEREVAN, APRIL 25, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. Every Armenian
should keep the memory of innocent martyrs and the longing for the
lost Homeland in the heart, and not only on April 24. The well-known
Diasporan Armenian businessman and philanthropist Vahagn Hovnanian
said this during a talk with NT correspondent. Every year on April
24, Vahagn Hovnanian visits Homeland to pay a tribute of respect to
the memory of his ancestors – victims of the Armenian Genocide in
1915. According to him, the recognition of the Armenian Genocide has
become a necessity for Turkey today, since by conducting a policy of
intolerance and denial, Turkey will reach a deadlock. In his opinion,
Turkey’s recognition of the Armenian Genocide will bring a moral
satisfaction to the Armenian people, while the future generation
will be able to get back the historical Armenian lands. It will be
followed by the restoration of Armenian churches, which “were turned
into stables”. V. Hovnanian said that each year, in April the Armenian
community of New Jersey organizes events in memory of the Armenian
Genocide victims, various commemoration ceremonies, whose aim is
“to remind the whole world that one of the most terrible crimes in
human history still remains unpunished.” The famous Diasporan Armenian
philanthropist noted that today the role of the Diasporan Armenians
consists in assisting, including providing financial assistance, to
the process of recognition of the Armenian Genocide, which will be a
necessary precondition in order to show to the world once again that
“the Armenian people is not a dead nation, that the Armenians are a
struggling and creative nation.”