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12:28, 14 April, 2012
YEREVAN, APRIL 14, ARMENPRESS: During the month of April, 2012, Peace of
Art, Inc., will display the commemorative billboards of Armenian Genocide
on Mount Auburn and Arsenal Streets in Watertown, MA, with the message "Mr.
President, Don't Turn your Back! Recognize the Armenian Genocide", reports
Armenpress citing PEACE OF ART, INC.
This year, Peace of Art will display a second message on a digital
billboard in Foxboro, MA, on Route 1 near Gillette Stadium and Patriot
Place, with the message "Honoring the Memory of 1.5 million Lives.
Recognize the Armenian Genocide." This simple message is written against an
image of Der Zor, covered with 1.5 million lights, one for each life lost.
The desert witnessed the remaining Armenians who were forced to their death
march by the Ottoman Turks, and became the last resting place for many of
the refugees. This digital billboard went up on Easter Monday, April 9,
2012, the day of Remembrance of the Dead "Merelotc".
The message on the Watertown billboards "Mr. President, Don't Turn Your
Back! Recognize the Armenian Genocide," is a message to President Obama
urging him to honor his 2008 campaign promise to recognize the Armenian
Genocide. While on the campaign trail, Mr. Obama declared that "The facts
are undeniable. An official policy that calls on diplomats to distort the
historical facts is an untenable policy... as president I will recognize
the Armenian Genocide." However, on April 24, 2010, President Obama
explicitly used the expression Meds Yeghern, a term used by Armenians to
reference the Great Calamity, rather than 'genocide,' a term coined by
Rafael Lemkin in 1944, and formally adopted by the Convention on the
Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in 1948. The President
stated in part "... The Meds Yeghern is a devastating chapter in the
history of the Armenian people, and we must keep its memory alive in honor
of those who were murdered and so that we do not repeat devastating chapter
of the past."
Daniel Varoujan Hejinian, president of Peace of Art, Inc., said that "It is
morally wrong for the president to turn his back on his promise to
acknowledge the mass murder of 1.5 million Armenians as genocide."
2012 marks the 97th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. Much has changed
in the last decades. However, the denial continues, despite overwhelming
evidence of its existence in the national archives of Austria, France,
Germany, Great Britain, Russia, the United States, the Vatican and many
other countries. This vast body of evidence attests to the same facts, the
same events, and the same consequences, and all confirm the organized
efforts by the Ottoman Turks to exterminate the Armenians.
Hejinian further stated that "doubting and denying the Armenian Genocide is
to repeat the crime against humanity, and debating it is an insult to the
memory of 1.5 million Armenians who were slaughtered."
The Armenian Genocide Commemoration and Recognition Campaign began in 1996
by Hejinian. Since 2004 Peace of Art has sponsored the billboards peaceful
message calling for recognition of the Armenian Genocide.
Genocide
12:28, 14 April, 2012
YEREVAN, APRIL 14, ARMENPRESS: During the month of April, 2012, Peace of
Art, Inc., will display the commemorative billboards of Armenian Genocide
on Mount Auburn and Arsenal Streets in Watertown, MA, with the message "Mr.
President, Don't Turn your Back! Recognize the Armenian Genocide", reports
Armenpress citing PEACE OF ART, INC.
This year, Peace of Art will display a second message on a digital
billboard in Foxboro, MA, on Route 1 near Gillette Stadium and Patriot
Place, with the message "Honoring the Memory of 1.5 million Lives.
Recognize the Armenian Genocide." This simple message is written against an
image of Der Zor, covered with 1.5 million lights, one for each life lost.
The desert witnessed the remaining Armenians who were forced to their death
march by the Ottoman Turks, and became the last resting place for many of
the refugees. This digital billboard went up on Easter Monday, April 9,
2012, the day of Remembrance of the Dead "Merelotc".
The message on the Watertown billboards "Mr. President, Don't Turn Your
Back! Recognize the Armenian Genocide," is a message to President Obama
urging him to honor his 2008 campaign promise to recognize the Armenian
Genocide. While on the campaign trail, Mr. Obama declared that "The facts
are undeniable. An official policy that calls on diplomats to distort the
historical facts is an untenable policy... as president I will recognize
the Armenian Genocide." However, on April 24, 2010, President Obama
explicitly used the expression Meds Yeghern, a term used by Armenians to
reference the Great Calamity, rather than 'genocide,' a term coined by
Rafael Lemkin in 1944, and formally adopted by the Convention on the
Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in 1948. The President
stated in part "... The Meds Yeghern is a devastating chapter in the
history of the Armenian people, and we must keep its memory alive in honor
of those who were murdered and so that we do not repeat devastating chapter
of the past."
Daniel Varoujan Hejinian, president of Peace of Art, Inc., said that "It is
morally wrong for the president to turn his back on his promise to
acknowledge the mass murder of 1.5 million Armenians as genocide."
2012 marks the 97th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. Much has changed
in the last decades. However, the denial continues, despite overwhelming
evidence of its existence in the national archives of Austria, France,
Germany, Great Britain, Russia, the United States, the Vatican and many
other countries. This vast body of evidence attests to the same facts, the
same events, and the same consequences, and all confirm the organized
efforts by the Ottoman Turks to exterminate the Armenians.
Hejinian further stated that "doubting and denying the Armenian Genocide is
to repeat the crime against humanity, and debating it is an insult to the
memory of 1.5 million Armenians who were slaughtered."
The Armenian Genocide Commemoration and Recognition Campaign began in 1996
by Hejinian. Since 2004 Peace of Art has sponsored the billboards peaceful
message calling for recognition of the Armenian Genocide.