Monument to Assyrian genocide victims set up in Australia12:31 / 12/17/2009
After a few days of protest against a monument to the victims of the Assyrian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire, the authorities of Sydney, Australia, granted permission for the unveiling of the monument in the suburb of Fairfield.
Representatives of the Armenian, Assyrian and Turkish communities gathered near the municipal council – in different moods. Numerous policemen were present as well.
More than 750,000 Assyrian were murdered in Turkey during World War I. systematic annihilation of Armenians, Assyrians and Greeks was part of the Ottoman Turkish government’s political ideology of exterminating the minorities.
Representatives of the Armenian, Assyrian and Turkish communities gathered near the municipal council – in different moods. Numerous policemen were present as well.
More than 750,000 Assyrian were murdered in Turkey during World War I. systematic annihilation of Armenians, Assyrians and Greeks was part of the Ottoman Turkish government’s political ideology of exterminating the minorities.
T.P.
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