Minister tried to stop memorial

THE Foreign Minister, Stephen Smith, attempted to intervene personally in the approval of a monument commemorating the contested Assyrian genocide after being lobbied by the Turkish Government. But his advice was ignored by Fairfield Council and the 4.5-metre statue to be built in Edensor Park was approved.

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GENOCIDE MEMORIAL STATUE IN FAIRFIELD CITY

The Assyrian Universal Alliance (AUA) - Australian Chapter is pleased to announce that despite strong objection by certain elements its application to erect a monument honouring the victims of the Assyrian Genocide was approved by the Fairfield City Council on 15 December 2009.

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New site dedicated to the 1915 Genocide

Union of Armenian Associations in Sweden info@armeniska.se www.armeniska.se. Armenica.org, in cooperation with the Union of Armenian Associations in Sweden, launches a new information site in Swedish, http://www.folkmordet1915.se, dedicated to the 1915 Genocide in Ottoman Turkey.

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Armenia, Turkey, and the Terrible Truth

Turkey has always had its share of decent folks. One close example is the righteous family who, during the great genocide and national dispossession of 1915, risked its own to save my grandmother Khengeni from certain death in the coastal town of Ordu. The stories of thousands like them have not been told because of the Turkish state's official dialectic of denial.

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Ninos Aho creates the Aturaya Khata brile

On the initiative of Seyfo Center and the support of Assyrischen Mesopotamienverein Gütersloh and Zentralverband der Assyrischen Vereinigungen in Germany (ZAVD) the event Lalyo Marduthonoyo with Malfono Ninos Aho had taken place on the 31 October 2009 in Gütersloh. This event was organized to support all the work of Seyfo Center.

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