Assembly of Tbilisi Armenians collecting 1915 symbolic signatures to appeal to Georgian President

April 15, 2010 - 13:58 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net - Assembly of Tbilisi Armenians (ATA) is collecting 1915 symbolic signatures to urge the Georgian President, parliament Speaker, all parliamentarians as well as all leading Georgian political parties to recognize the Armenian Genocide.

The action will continue until April 18. ATA representatives will give the letters to the addressees on Monday, ATA press service reported.

ATA unites several NGOs: Union of Armenian Veterans of Georgia, Association for Protection of Rights of Armenians in Georgia, Forum of Participants of Pan-Armenian Games, Public Council on Education, Nor Serund Union of Armenian Youth of Georgia, as well as representatives of Tbilisi Armenian community.

The Armenian Genocide

The Armenian Genocide (1915-23) was the deliberate and systematic destruction of the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire during and just after World War I. It was characterized by massacres and deportations, involving forced marches under conditions designed to lead to the death of the deportees, with the total number of deaths reaching 1.5 million.

The majority of Armenian Diaspora communities were formed by the Genocide survivors.

Present-day Turkey denies the fact of the Armenian Genocide, justifying the atrocities as “deportation to secure Armenians”. Only a few Turkish intellectuals, including Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk and scholar Taner Akcam, speak openly about the necessity to recognize this crime against humanity.

The Armenian Genocide was recognized by Uruguay, Russia, France, Lithuania, Italy, 45 U.S. states, Greece, Cyprus, Lebanon, Argentina, Belgium, Austria, Wales, Switzerland, Canada, Poland, Venezuela, Chile, Bolivia, the Vatican, Luxembourg, Brazil, Germany, the Netherlands, Paraguay, Sweden, Venezuela, Slovakia, Syria, Vatican, as well as the European Parliament and the World Council of Churches.

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