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    ASSYRIAN GENOCIDE MEMORIAL ERECTED IN FRANCE

    Assyrian International News Agency AINA
    April 28 2013

    (AINA) -- A memorial to the Assyrian victims of the Genocide
    perpetrated against Assyrians, Greeks and Armenians in World War One
    by Ottoman Turks was erected yesterday in the town Arnouville, outside
    of Paris. The Genocide, which began on April 24, 1915 and lasted until
    1918, claimed the lives of 750,000 Assyrians (75%), 500,000 Greeks and
    1.5 million Armenians.

    According to the Assyrian Genocide Research Center, "this is a
    historical day for the Assyrian nation, to commemorate the victims of
    the genocide and to point out the current atrocities brought upon the
    ancient St. Gabriel Monastery by the so called "modern" Turkey."

    The St. Gabriel Monastery, founded in 397 A.D., has been embroiled in
    a legal battle over its land, with the Turkish government attempting
    to seize the Monastery's lands (full coverage). The Monastery is
    located in the Tur Abdin plateau near Midyat in the Mardin Province in
    Southeastern Turkey.

    Paris is host to a large community of Assyrians, most of whom having
    arrived during and after World War One, to escape the Turkish
    genocide.

    http://www.aina.org/news/20130427202813.htm

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