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April 24, 2005 -
BBC news- Armenians around the world have commemorated
the 90th anniversary of the killings of
hundreds of thousands of people by the
Ottoman Empire. Hundreds of thousands of
Armenians took to the streets of Yerevan to
pay their respects to the victims.
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April 29, 2005
- CNN - We shudder at images from Darfur,
Sudan, wince at memories of Rwanda and look
at grainy pictures of the Holocaust and say
"never again." Nearly forgotten is
a brutal campaign from nearly a century ago,
that historians say may not have been a
model for those genocides, but certainly
provided a rationale. Adolf Hitler himself
was reported to have made a reference to it
in 1939, as he prepared to invade Poland. He
was quoted as saying, "Who, after all,
speaks today of the annihilation of the
Armenians?" Neither the Turkish
government, nor any U.S. president, except
Ronald Reagan, has ever called this event
"genocide".
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April 25, 2005 - Aljazeera - Tens of
thousand of Armenians have marked the 90th
anniversary of mass killings of Armenians in
the Ottoman Empire by urging Turkey to
acknowledge what they call a genocide.
Waving flags and carrying flowers, people
streamed through the Armenian capital and
marched up to a massive hilltop granite
memorial to hear speeches and prayers. The
country will observe a minute of silence at
7pm and Yerevan residents will place candles
on window sills in memory of the victims.
France, Russia and many other countries have
already declared the killings were genocide.
The US, which has a large Armenian diaspora
community, has not.
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December 15, 2004 - Times On Line - TURKEY
has reacted angrily to a demand by France
that it accept responsibility for a
“genocide” against Armenians nearly 80
years ago, which is thought to have
influenced the Nazi Holocaust. Michel
Barnier, the French Foreign Minister
insisted that Turkey must officially
recognise the 1915 genocide before it joins
the European Union.
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April
27, 2005
- ISNA (Iranian Student News Agency) - On
the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the
victims of the Armenian Genocide, a team of
Iranian alpinists climbed the peak of Mt
Ararat. The representative of the eight
persons group climbed the Ararat said:
"The goal of this action was showing
solidarity with the survivors of this
historical event and honor the victims. The brought
stones from the Mt Ararat will presented to
the museum of the Armenian Genocide in
Armenia and also for placing them besides
the memorials of the Armenian Genocide
in Tehran and Isfahan."(Farsi)
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