Armenian, Assyrian, Greek Genocides of 1915 Remembered - Coptic Solidarity

Armenian, Assyrian, Greek Genocides of 1915 Remembered - Coptic Solidarity

By ANHA (via AINA) – Each year on April 24th, the Armenians, Syriac-Assyrians, and Chaldeans commemorate the Ottoman Empire’s genocide of Christians in its lands during World War I. The genocide led to the displacement and killings of more than one and a half million Armenians and hundreds of thousands of Syriac, Assyrians, Chaldeans, and their transformation into minorities who are spread around the world. April 24 was chosen specifically since…

Some 1.4 million Armenians fell victim to the genocide in the Ottoman Empire in April 1915. Historian Elke Shoghig Hartmann on causes – and the German joint debtGEO: Prof. Hartmann, the official commemoration day for the genocide of the Armenians is April 24. On that day in 1915 several hundred Armenian intellectuals were arrested in Constantinople. Why is this very date so symbolically important? Prof. Dr. Elke Shoghig Hartmann: April 24 was th…