Event dedicated to 102nd anniversary of Armenian Genocide held in Montevideo
On the night of Friday, April 21, the Armenian community of Uruguay rallied for the 102nd anniversary of the Armenian Genocide in a large demonstration that gathered in Plaza Independencia to start marching along the main avenue, towards the esplanade of the Intendance of Montevideo, Prensa Armenia reported.
The march was convened by Young Armenians of Uruguay, a space that groups the youth organizations of the community. The march culminated in the reading of a proclamation by Mikael Demirdjian, who thanked Uruguay for its countless signs of support.
“Our steadfast steps are united year by year in this march to remember the 1.500.000 Armenians who were exterminated more than a century ago, but above all to protest against a State that not only systematically denies its responsibility in the first genocide of the twentieth century, but also pursues today its own people.
Day after day, activists, journalists and opposers in general to the government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan are persecuted, imprisoned and many have had to exile just for not having guaranteed their right to dissent,” Demirdjian said.
“Ours is not only a claim for truth against Turkish negationist policies and justice for the murdered Armenians. It is also the demand for moral, territorial and patrimonial reparation as an integral stage of the process of truth, memory and justice.”
On April 24 there will be demonstrations in the Argentine cities of Cordoba and Buenos Aires and on April 26 in the city of San Pablo, Brazil.
