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I am Armenian, and I march in protest in Ottawa in front of the turkish embassy almost every April 24th. The genocide needs recognition for our minds and the minds of our grandparents to be at rest: just like any crime that is unsolved... the victims of those crimes cannot sleep at night without recognition and closure. That is what we are looking for, closure.
Also, I understand how turks today have "nothing" to do with what happened almost 100 years ago, but it is also a crime for them to ignore the mountains of facts, and to deny what their ancestors did in 1915.
I also agree that the honking and yelling only makes our cause look more stupid. Our grandparents must be looking out their house windows ashamed, while they are mourning the deaths of their family members...
Finally, it is important for us to take this one day and remember, because just as people go to the cemetary to remember their loved ones, we use today to remember what happened to our race, and how we are here the way we are today.
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