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Armenian Genocide commemorative billboards displayed in Boston

Armenian Genocide commemorative billboards displayed in Boston

YEREVAN, APRIL 5, ARMENPRESS. On the 99th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, commemorative billboards have been placed in Boston. The billboards have been displayed upon the initiative of the president of Peace of Art, Inc., Daniel Varoujan Hejinian.

As reports “Armenpress” citing Massis Post, during the month of April, the 2014 Armenian Genocide commemorative billboards will be displayed at the corner of Arsenal and School Streets in Watertown; on Cambridge Street, at the Lechmere Station in Cambridge; and on Route 1 South, 1/4 mile from the Gillette Stadium, in Foxboro.

Sponsored by Peace of Art, Inc., the 2014 Armenian Genocide commemorative billboards honor the victims and survivors of the Armenian Genocide. In this year’s message “Recognize the Crime of the Century, the Armenian Genocide,” the word ‘genocide’ has imbedded the number 100, and handcuffs. The number 100 refers to the approaching 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. The handcuffs refer to a century of victimization and denial by the perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide and their supporters. The Armenian Genocide was the crime of the century because it was the first genocide of the 20th century. Had the genocide been condemned by the world community, the governments that followed most likely would not have used genocide as the means to eliminate unwanted groups of their populations segregated by race, religion or ethnicity.

Millions of people around the world have been killed, victims of genocide, for political motives, and ethnic cleansing. Since the Armenian genocide took place in the beginning of the 20th century, genocide has become an effective tool of war, to eliminate unwanted sectors of the population segregated by race, or religion, or ethnicity.

In 1996, Peace of Art, Inc. founder and president, Daniel Varoujan Hejinian, began to display the annual Armenian Genocide commemorative billboards, bringing awareness about the Armenian Genocide to the community at large. Since 2003, through the annual commemorative billboards, Peace of Art, Inc.,www.PeaceofArt.org has been calling for the recognition of the Armenian Genocide, and it has urged the community at large, the President of the United States, and the United Nations to recognize the Armenian Genocide. It is time to urge Turkey to recognize the Armenian Genocide, and to make amends.

“To deny the Armenian Genocide is to further victimize those who perished and their descendants, it is an act of blaming the victims. After a century of denial, it is time to place the ‘handcuffs’ on the criminals. For those who think that after the last survivor dies there will be no more witnesses, and with the passing of time the Armenian genocide will be forgotten, know that all Armenians are survivors of the genocide, and as long as the Armenian genocide remains unrecognized by Turkey, millions of Armenians around the world will demand recognition and justice.” Said the president of Peace of Art, Inc., Daniel Varoujan Hejinian.

The fact of the Armenian Genocide by the Ottoman government has been documented, recognized, and affirmed in the form of media and eyewitness reports, laws, resolutions, and statements by many states and international organizations. The complete catalogue of all documents categorizing the 1915 wholesale massacre of the Armenian population in Ottoman Empire as a premeditated and thoroughly executed act of genocide, is extensive. Uruguay was the first country to officially recognize the Armenian Genocide in 1965. The massacres of the Armenian people were officially condemned and recognized as genocide in accordance with the international law by France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland, Sweden, Russia, Poland, Lithuania, Greece, Slovakia, Cyprus, Lebanon, Uruguay, Argentina, Venezuela, Chile, Canada, Vatican and Australia.




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