On April 24, 2016, the Armenian community of Canada came together in Ottawa to commemorate the 101 st year of the Armenian Genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire in 1915. The commemoration started with speeches at Ottawa’s Parliament Hill near the building of the Canadian Parliament, and continued to the Turkish Embassy, where speakers addressed the Embassy with their demand for recognition of the Armenian Genocide.
Armen Eganyan, Ambassador of Armenia to Canada, said in his speech that it is because of the failure to recognize and condemn the Armenian Genocide that a precedent of racial extermination as a tool …read more
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