Armenian Genocide - Binghamton, New York
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N 42° 05.483 W 075° 54.873
18T E 424367 N 4660326
This memorial is near war memorials in the South Side Veterans Park by the Susquehanna River near the Washington Street Bridge.
Waymark Code: WMV1GK
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 02/08/2017
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text: "April 24, 2004 These trees are a living memorial to the victims of the Armenian Genocide of 1915 committed by the Ottoman Turkish Government We remember those who perished We celebrate the lives of those who survived The Armenian Genocide of 1915"
Armenian Genocide website
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"Each year, St. Gregory's Armenian Church holds a dedication service on April 24 and a tree is planted alongside the monument." "The Armenian Genocide was centrally planned and administered by the Turkish government against the entire Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire. It was carried out during W.W.I between the years 1915 and 1918. The Armenian people were subjected to deportation, expropriation, abduction, torture, massacre, and starvation. The great bulk of the Armenian population was forcibly removed from Armenia and Anatolia to Syria, where the vast majority was sent into the desert to die of thirst and hunger."