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    Religious Life (Bucharest)
    Weekly bulletin
    Year XII, No 555, 23 May 2004

    8. COMMEMORATION IN BUCHAREST OF THE GENOCIDE OF 1915 AGAINST THE ARMENIANS

    On 24 April last, a remembrance service took place at the Armenian
    Cemetery in Bucharest for the victims of the genocide of 1915 against
    the Armenians, in Turkey. The religious service was celebrated by His
    Eminence Dirayr Mardichian, Archbishop of the Orthodox Armenians in
    Romania, vartabed Khoren Zakarian, Rev. Bogdan Ezras, deacons Haig
    Azarian and Radu Holca, near the khacikar raised in the cemetery
    in the memory of those killed 89 years ago. Wreaths of flowers were
    laid on behalf of the Armenian Embassy in Bucharest, of the Armenian
    Archdiocese and of the Armenians* Union in Romania. After the service,
    His Eminence Dirayr Mardichian and His Excellency Eghișe Sarksian,
    Ambassador of the Armenia in Bucharest took the floor. The Armenians
    present at the remembrance service lit candles and laid flowers near
    the khacikar.

    Next day, at Dudian library, in the courtyard of the Armenian
    Cathedral in Bucharest, a meeting dedicated to the commemoration of
    the genocide took place, where publicist Vartan Arachelian and writer
    Mihai Rădulescu delivered speeches. Vartan Arachelian said that the
    Armenians in Romania should make the state authorities sensitive
    to this issue so that, in the perspective of the anniversary next
    year of nine decades since the tragic events in the Ottoman Empire,
    the Parliament from Bucharest should recognize the genocide, as the
    Parliaments of some other countries have already done. Writer Mihai
    Rădulescu read a lengthy material about the massacres committed
    against the Armenians in 1915.

    One week before, the Armenian Liturgy of Catholic rite had been
    celebrated in the *Holy Trinity* church in Cluj-Napoca, in the
    memory of the victims of the Genocide of 1915. Rev. Szakacs Endre,
    the parish priest of the Armenian church in Gherla (county of Cluj)
    celebrated the religious service.

    In the same city, in March, the film Ararat by Atom Egoyan producer was
    presented at the headquarters of the German Forum while on 27 April a
    photo exhibition was varnished displaying images of the deportations
    and massacres committed against the Armenians * informs us the Ararat
    magazine, the publication of the Armenians* Union in Romania, issue 8
    (293) of 16-30 April 2004.
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