April 24, 2005 - 12:19 AMT
LVOV: RALLY ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE 90-TH ANNIVERSARY
Some 1 thousand Lvov resident, mostly Armenians, rally in the city center on the 90-th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide in 1915. The rally participants went along Lvov central streets to the monument to Taras Shevchenko. Priests were in the forepart of the procession, whose participants have red carnations and lighted candles in their hands. They carry transparencies: "All those not censuring the genocide are its participants," "Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Empire awaits for its «Nuremberg»", "Non-acknowledgement of the Armenian Genocide cannot be justified by any national interests." Honorary President of Akhtyur Armenian Association of Lvov Karapet Bagratuni said those gathered demand that Turkey and other countries of the world, which have not recognized the Armenian Genocide, to properly acknowledge it. In his words some 3 thousand Armenians live in Lvov. Militia does not hamper those gathered. It should be noted that April 22 unknown people again wrote offensive expressions on the walls of the Armenian church situated in the center of Lvov.