For the first time in history, on May 20, 2012 in Adelaide, South
Australia, descendants of the original Christian inhabitants who
survived the Turkish Ottoman Empire's genocide united for justice and
recognition.
As Elena Harrison, President of the Armenian
Cultural Association of South Australia Inc., the small but vibrant
Armenian, Pontian-Greek and Assyrian Universal Alliance communities
unveiled a monument in recognition of the 1,500,000 Armenians, 800,000
Greeks of Asia Minor, 500,000 Pontian Greeks and 800,000 Assyrians, all
Christians, who were massacred or deported from their ancestral lands
through a series of genocides by the Ottoman Turks, between 1915 and
1923.
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