ARAM I: “OUR MARTYRS REMIND US THAT WE MUST DEMAND ACCOUNT FROM
GENOCIDE TURKEY CONDUCTED”
ANTELIAS, APRIL 28, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. At the first
monument in the world dedicated to the memory of the April martyrs and
placed in the Mayravank of Antelias, on April 24, hundreds of
Armenians again promised to remain demanders of alive will of our
martyrs,” is said in the message submitted to Noyan Tapan by the Press
Services of the Catholicosate of the Great House of Cilicia. After the
Surb Liturgy celebrated at the Mother Cathedral of Antelias, the
solemn procession headed by Aram I Catholicos of the Great House of
Cilicia went to the martyrs’ church grave where the divine ceremony
took place. Bishop Gegham Khacherian, the primate of the Lebanese
Armenians, who celebrated the liturgy, read the Bible. Then under the
rain, His Holiness Aram I addressed to hundreds of present Armenians:
“Today is the day of martyrs, the day of national demand and account,
I characterize April 24 on the calendar of our people in this way. We
gather with the sole of account and demands.
Demandfulness means account. Today our martyrs demand account of us.”
“Our martyrs remind us that we must demand account of genocide Turkey
that conducted in 1915 the Genocide planned by the state towards our
people. If genocide Turkey continues to deny the Genocide committed by
its fathers, there are facts, closed in shelves of itself, the one
conducted the Genocide, which prove that crime committed against the
mankind. We ask: where is the justice? Where is the respect of the
human rights? Where is revealing of the truth?” the Catholicos of the
Great House of Cilicia stated. We must must continue our struggle of
our demandfulness, reporting to our martyrs and demanding account of
the genocide. April 24 is not a day on our calendar: everyday is April
24 for an Armenian considering himself an Armenian and living like an
Armenian. Today we start our oath from Armenia to Antelias, gathered
round ashes of our martyrs.
We re-start our oath in every corner of the world to step the way of
our martyrs, remaining faithful to their will. This way that will take
us towards the justice as this is the way leading towards the truth,”
Aram I Patriarch said. After his speech His Holiness laid a wreath to
the monument, then thousand of those present went by a procession
towards Burj Hamud’s sports ground to participate in the national
ceremony.