The Armenian community in Aleppo: the crime of genocide was systematically committed

On April 25th, members of the Armenian community in Aleppo commemorate the one-hundred-sixth anniversary of the genocide committed against the Armenians at the hands of the Ottoman Empire.

The Ottoman mercenaries killed the old and women, slaughtered men, crucified them, and exiled those who survived  in the worst crime against humanity that began in 1914 and extended to 1923 and claimed more than a million and a half victims.

Members of the Armenian community who denounced this crime and affirmed their adherence to their rights, thanking the Syrian state, which was a safe haven for them and became an integral part of its social fabric.

Mahran Wrttanian said : “ On April 24th, 1923, the Ottoman authorities gathered all the Armenian thinkers in the Ottoman Empire, tortured them and brutally harassed them and killed a million and a half of the Armenian people in addition to the Assyrians and Greeks.”

He added the Armenian community in Aleppo have  their full rights in Syria and they built churches to practice their religious rituals, and they became part of the Syrian people.

Kevork Shahinian said that the Armenian genocide  was systematically committed by the Ottoman Empire by killing, displacing and removing an entire people from the map of history and the world.

He said that the Ottoman Empire began with the arrest of thinkers, intellectuals and clerics, plundering their property and destroying places of worship.

Lisa Fustogjian said that she is the granddaughter of the late Lieutenant Colonel Krikor Hinduian, who was a survivor of the massacres that were committed against the Armenians, and he was 13 years old at the time.

She said that Syria has become her first country after Armenia, which she has not been able to see until now.

Armen Kocherian sent a message to the Turkish government about the need to recognize the Armenian genocide, which killed more than a million and a half Armenian citizens, displaced thousands and looted their property until they reached Syria.

A member of the People’s Assembly (Parliament) , Dr. Lucy Iskah-Nyan said that the genocide committed against the Armenians at the hands of the Ottoman Empire was not only committed against the Armenians, but against all humanity.

She noted that the descendants of the Ottomans continue their crimes against peoples from killing to stealing land , and the biggest evidence is what they did in Syria.

Iskeh Nyan emphasized that the crimes against humanity do not fall under the statute of limitations and the Armenian people will continue to fight for their right until the Turkish state, the successor of the Ottomans, recognizes its crime.

Nyan considered that the recognition by the President of the United States of the facts related to the massacre committed against the Armenians is a political pressure card on Turkey and not a humanitarian gesture.

O. al-Mohammad