17 April 2015, 04:22
Yerevan activists demand from USA to recognize Armenian Genocide
On April 16, in Yerevan, members of the Youth Union of the ARF "Dashnaktsutyun" Party and the "Nikol Agbalyan" Students' Union held an action near the US Embassy to Armenia. The activists demanded from the USA to recognize Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Empire.
The year of 2015 marks the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire in 1915-1923. Armenian Genocide was recognized by more than 20 countries. The Turkish side has its own opinion towards the events of 1915. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Turkey notes that "experts can study the common history of Turkish and Armenian nations only on the basis of impartial scientific evidence."
According to the organizers of the action in Yerevan, it was attended by about 50 people. Participants of the actions were chanting: "Justice!", "Condemnation!" In their hands, they were holding posters with slogans reading: "Recognition, Turkey still hides behind lies" and "Unity, Struggle, Victory", the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.
The protesters sat in front of the US Embassy, with their ears covered and mouths closed. According to the organizers, that symbolizes the ongoing superpowers' policy to keep silence and ignore the fact of the Armenian Genocide.
"The US government should finally declare that the killing of Armenians was not a massacre, but genocide aimed at the extermination of a whole nation," the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told by Ani Khachatryan, a member of the Youth Union of the "Dashnaktsutyun".
Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.
Author: Tigran Petrosyan Source: CK correspondent
