Saturday 11 April 2015

‘WHO REMEMBERS THE ARMENIANS’ – 100 YEARS OF IMPUNITY The Primate’s Office is happy to bring the attention of our readers :


to a special event focusing on the 1915 Genocide which will take place on Wednesday, 22 April 2015, 19:00-20:30 at the Amnesty International UK, the Human Rights Action Centre, London EC2A 3EA. The event will include the screening of an exclusive film with Armenian genocide survivors, a Q&A and a reception with canapés. Doors open at 18:30. The reception will be from 20:30. The event is free but booking is required http://bit.ly/1LU1QwW . The event will explore how impunity and failures to bring to justice perpetrators of atrocities leads to future atrocities - Using the Armenian genocide as the focus but looking at subsequent crimes against humanity and genocide, right up to the emergence of ISIS in Syria and Iraq. Speakers: Carla Garapedian, Armenian Film Foundation and Project Leader, Armenian Genocides Testimonies Collection; Dr James Smith CBE, CEO of the Aegis Trust and co-founder of the UK National Holocaust Centre; Chaired by Kate Allen, Director Amnesty International UK. 

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