Sunday, 16 January 2011

Solidarity with the Victims of All Genocides Hrant Dink Day 19th January 2011


Vigil outside the Turkish Embassy at 1 p.m
nearest tube station : Hyde Park Station
Tel: 07718982732

Eve of Hrant Dink Day
Hrant Dink Commemorative Conference
You are warmly invited to this conference on
The Persecution of Indigenous Peoples, Unrepresented and/or Occupied Nations, Minorities and 'Others'
(in Turkey, Pakistan, South America and Iraq)
on 18th January 2011 (eve of Hrant Dink Day)
between 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. in Committee Room 2, the House of Lords, Westminster
(Free admission - Nearest underground: Westminster)
Content :
1 Tribute to Hrant Dink and his world-wide significance (Eilian Williams)
Perspectives on "Disappearances" worldwide - Haci Ozdemir, The International Committee of Disappearances (UK Section)
The targeting of Kurds and 'Others' in Turkey (Desmond Fernandes, genocide scholar; Kasim Agpak - FED-BIR, the Kurdish Federation in the UK, and a representative from the International Platform Against Isolation)
2 The 1991 Genocide of the Mapuche and Tehuelche in Argentina and their current persecution in Chile (Reynaldo Mariqueo)
3 Tribute to the late Salman Taseer, martyred governor of the Punjab
The treatment of Christians and 'Other' Minorities in Pakistan
The case of Asia Bibi - possible solutions (Wilson Chowdhry and Alex Choudhry of the British Pakistani Christian Association; Cllr Raza Anjum on his mission to help Asia Bibi)
Revd. Alwin Samuel of CLAAS (Centre for Legal Aid and Settlement)
Mushtaq Laharie (Chairman of Third World Solidarity)
Pakistan's persecution and possible Genocide of the Baluchis (Baluchi speakers)
4 The Persecution of Minorities in Iraq (Saad Tokatly, Iraqi Christian representative)
Autonomy and a Genocide Recognition in Iraq. A Solution to the suffering of Minorities?
(Adnan Kochar of the Centre of Halabja - CHAK)
Discussion
The Conference is sponsored by Baroness Finlay of Llandaff and Baroness Cox
07718982732

----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 5:05 AM
Subject: Sorry, I had written 8 p.m. instead of the correct time, 6 p.m.

Dear Friends
Sorry, I had written 8 p.m. instead of the correct time, 6 p.m.(now corrected on the poster)
Eilian
Solidarity with the Victims of All Genocides
Nor Serount Cultural Association
c/o The Temple of Peace, Cathays Park,Cardiff
07718982732
Dear Friend
You are warmly invited to the following meeting in Portculis House ((Where MPs offices are situated, opposite Big Ben on the corner of Bridge street and the Embankment) RSVP if possible
"Re-thinking our Policy on Turkey-did our policy of Appeasment and Collusion with Genocide Denial lead to more Human Rights Abuses? "
at 6 p.m. on tuesday, 8th June 2010
in the Grimmond Room , Portculis House, The Embankment, Westminster
Speakers:
1 Sait Cevatoglu, (a Genocide Scholar from Turkey, and organizer of the 24th April Conference in Ankara) on "Origins of Denial"
2 Desmond Fernandes ( on recent Human Rights abuses and trials in Turkey
3 Eilian Williams: "Is Armenia Occupied? " and "Towards a new policy of helping Turkey rebuild Western (or Turkish) Armenia"
Sponsor : Nia Griffith MP for Llanelli, Wales

This will be followed by a launch of Des Fernandes' new book on Human Rights in Turkey
Participants: Professor Khatchatur Pilikian
Alex Fitch (of Campaign against Criminalizing Communities)

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