Armenian Genocide 93rd anniversary to be marked in New York

PanARMENIAN.Net - The Armenian National Committee of New York will host the 93rd Commemoration of the Armenian Genocide at City Hall Chambers on April 25th at 5:30 P.M. The evening will feature Professor Henry Theriault of Worcester State College as the main speaker and Archbishop Oshagan Choloyan, who will address the community and give the invocation, reported the ANC-NYC.



"While causing New York's Armenian community to reflect thoughtfully on the horrible catastrophe that befell our people, Dr. Theriault will also connect the Armenian Cause to the broader struggle for advancing international human rights," said Doug Geogerian of the Armenian National Committee of New York.



Elected official at the local, state and federal levels will attend and pay tribute to the systematic murder of 1.5 million Armenians, a genocide, which the perpetrator, the Turkish government, continues to deny to this day. The commemoration will also include musical work performed in memory of the crime committed against the Armenian nation.



The evening's main speaker will be Dr. Henry Theriault, who has written extensively on the subject of genocide and the dispossession of indigenous peoples. While he has dealt at length with the Armenian case, which concerns his own ancestry, Theriault's work is broad and examines the impact of genocide against Africans, Native Americans and other victim groups.