Posted on 03/27/2018 2:45:16 PM PDT by Texas Fossil
Geneva Canton Court has approved the building of an Armenian Genocide Monument. The monument will be opened on the 103rd anniversary of the genocide.
The Geneva Canton Court has said the final word on the discussions on the monument the public wanted to erect in Geneva for years to commemorate the victims of the Armenian Genocide, but were prevented by Turkey’s diplomatic pressure. The court ruled that the appeals to prevent the building of the monument are baseless and that the monument can be erected inside the Trembley Park in Geneva.
The monument project prepared by Parisian Armenian Melik Ohanyan to commemorate the victims of the Armenian Genocide is planned to be opened by the 103rd anniversary of the genocide.
The Geneva City Council had approved of the monument in 2008, and the project for the monument was completed in 2011. Construction had to be delayed until today due to diplomatic pressure from Turkey. The monument caused a great crisis between Turkey and Switzerland, and was planned to be erected in a park near the UN Geneva Headquarters until that was also shut down by Turkey’s pressure. The Turkish diaspora had taken the matter to court several times under various pretenses and had been posing the greatest challenge to the erection of the monument to date.
The Metz Yeghérn (“The Great Evil”) began on 24 April 1915.
http://www.armeniapedia.org/wiki/Medz_Yeghern
It is time to be recognized by all, and not repeated now in Syria.
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From Turkey? Continued denial, even today.
Same thing with Japan... to this day they refuse to recognize the ‘comfort women’, the horrendous torture and treatment of prisoners, Bataan death march etc.
It should be built in Ankara, next to the Anitkabir.
My grandmother’s childhood best friend became an Army Nurse. She was in Manilla when it fell, was on Corregidor until is surrendered, spent 2-1/2 years in a Japanese POW camp. She retired a Lt. Col. in the San Antonio area.
She wrote a book about that experience, I have a couple of signed copies of it. One signed for my grandmother.
Inside the cover:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C9tMd6KUIAI7fbV.jpg
They should go ahead and plan to put a Kurdish genocide monument up, as well.....
We need to avoid that. But Erdogan is working on it.
Very cool - and I could swear that I’ve seen that photo before. Is that book titled “To The Angels”? I think my mother-in-law had a copy.
Well. I love Geneva, lived there for years, but frankly I do think the San Fernando Valley here in LA would be a ways more appropriate for location. You could even have the plaque in Armenian and most people would understand it here.
Yes, it is. It is a self published book, out of print.
Maud was my grandmother’s best childhood friend, families later intermarried. So related in a way.
Kurds are going to have something to say about that. They are petty good soldiers. They don’t have airplanes, but are still pretty effective.
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