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Parliament of Navarre Recognizes Armenian Genocide
(asbarez.com) PAMPLONA, Spain—The parliament of Spain’s autonomous community of Navarre adopted a measure on Monday recognizing the Armenian Genocide. The measure came after a series of visits by members of the Navarre parliament to Armenia and Artsakh. Navarre lies in the north of Spain and has a sizable population of Basque speakers. The declaration, adopted…
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Presbyterian Church Adopts Resolution on Armenian Genocide Centennial
DETROIT—On Friday, June 20, some 600 commissioners to the 221st General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA), meeting in Detroit, Mich., adopted with near unanimity a resolution recognizing the Armenian Genocide and adopting the 2015 church calendar designating April 26 as the day for its observance. It also directed the church’s Mission Agency to prepare…
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New Book Recounts Son’s Struggle to Understand Father’s Life after Genocide
(horizonweekly.com) Author Douglas Kalajian believes the title of his new book conveys a dilemma that will be familiar to many Armenian Americans born after the tumult that dislodged their parents and grandparents from their homeland. Stories My Father Never Finished Telling Me: Living with the Armenian Legacy of Loss and Silence, recounts Kalajian’s attempts to…
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Project for Armenian Genocide Museum was announced in Buenos Aires
(Agencia Prensa Armenia).- The City of Buenos Aires will donate a property to the Armenian community for the construction of an Armenian Genocide Museum, according to Undersecretary for Human Rights and Cultural Pluralism Lic. Claudio Avruj. In dialogue with Prensa Armenia, Undersecretary Avruj stressed the importance of the project “that joins the efforts of both…
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New Genocide Monument Unveiled in Vancouver
VANCOUVER (Horizon Weekly)—During the commemoration of the 99th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide a new monument dedicated to its victims was unveiled in the middle of Vancouver. The stainless steel monument, which is shaped like a fingerprint of a survivor, pays homage to the 1.5 million victims of the Armenian Genocide. More than 350 community…
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Buenos Aires City Legislature approved two projects on Armenian Genocide
(prensaarmenia.com.ar) The Buenos Ares City Legislature issued on April 3 a statement written by legislators Virginia Gonzalez Gass and Maria Raquel Herrero to commemorate April 24 as the “Day of the First Genocide of the 20th Century”, on the “99th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.” The Legislature also approved a project submitted by the legislator…
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Perinçek: Switzerland requests referral to Grand Chamber
Federal Office of Justice Press Release, FOJ, 11.03.2014 Berne. Switzerland is to request that the European Court of Human Rights have the case of Doğu Perinçek referred to the Grand Chamber for review. The decision was made by the Federal Office of Justice (FoJ). A review would clarify the scope available to the Swiss authorities…
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Azerbaijani Distortion of the Events in Khojaly
WASHINGTON, March 3, 2014 — Azerbaijani diplomacy and propaganda continues to mislead the international community and Azerbaijani people by falsifying the essence and the history of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and the facts about the Khojaly events in particular. By distorting the Khojaly events, Azerbaijani regime attempts to escape the responsibility for the Armenian massacres in…
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Genocide Memoirs of Aram and Dirouhi Avedian Published in LA
(armenianweekly.com) LOS ANGELES—Defying Fate, the memoirs of Aram and Dirouhi Avedian and the fifth volume of the Genocide Library, was published recently in Los Angeles. Dirouhi Cheomlekjian (later Avedian) was born circa 1907 in Izmit. In 1915, she and her family were deported by the Turkish government and marched to the Der Zor desert in…
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WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES: ECtHR judgement an affront to memory of the victims of Armenian genocide
(horizonweekly.ca) – The World Council of Churches (WCC) has expressed “great concern” over the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) judgment in the case of Perinçek v. Switzerland, recalling that the Swiss National Council and the Federal Tribunal in the past have clearly recognized the Armenian genocide as a historical fact. The ECtHR judgment in…