REMINDER: Invitation from Wales-Armenia Friendship Society Exhibition - 25 September 2010

Dear Friends

On behalf of the Wales Armenian Solidarity and Welsh Armenian Friendship Society we extend our warmest

invitation to attend:

Major Exhibition on Cultural Genocide in "Turkish" Armenia in the National Assembly

This exhibition, showing how Armenian churches and monasteries were destroyed by the modern Turkish State

in the years following the 1915 Genocide, will take place in the main "Senedd" building of the National Assembly

of Wales in Cardiff Bay between the 24th and the 30th September.

You are warmly invited to visit the manned exhibition at any time during this period, especially on Saturday,

25th September for the "opening", at approx 3.30 pm, following a Badarak (Armenian Mass) in Ararat Baptist

Church, The Common, Whitchurch, Cardiff, CF14 1PT at 11 a. m. Also on Thursday, 30th September at

12 30.p.m. a guided tour of the pictures will be provided (and every 15 minutes till 1.30 p.m.)

We are grateful to Dai Lloyd AM for sponsoring the exhibition

Arddangosfa bwysig ar Hil-laddiad diwylliannol yn Armenia "Dwrcaidd"

Dengys yr arddangosfa hon sut y dinistrwyd eglwysi a mynachdai gan wladwriaeth fodern Twrci yn y blynyddoedd wedi Hil-laddiad

1915, a bydd yn rhedeg o'r 24ain o Fedi tan y 30ain yn Senedd y Cynnulliad

Mae croeso cynnes i chwi ymweld a'r arddangosfa hon yn ystod y cyfnod hwn, yn enwedig yn yr agoriad (tua 3.30 p.m. ar y 25ain

o Fedi, wedi'r Badarac (offeren Armenaidd ) yng Nghapel Bedyddwyr Ararat, Y Comin, Eglwysnewydd) CF14 1PT am 11 00 a.m.

Hefyd ar y dydd iau, 30ain o Fedi , byddwn yn gallu eich tywys o amgylch y lluniau ar unrhyw adeg rhwng 12.30 p.m. a 1.30 p.m.

Rydym yn ddiolchgar i Dai Lloyd AC am hyrwyddo'r arddangosfa

Special thanks to Eilian Williams for facilitating this event & Vardan Levoni Tadevosyan (Historian and Artist) for putting together

the content.

This exhibition shows clearly shows that the genocide did not end in 1915 and the "will" to eliminate the Armenians from history

is present to this day.

Not only have Armenian monuments been desecrated and destroyed in our traditional home land but also throughout Europe

including Wales.

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It is vital that the UK does demean the events of 1915 and condemn them as genocide. It is also vital that the genocide of 1915

is remembered otherwise we will all be guilty of perpetuating the destruction of a culture.

We hope this exhibition can be repeated in other cities within the UK including London.