Armenian Genocide being increasingly recognized in the world - Mayor of Lithuania’s Varėna district

Algis Kašėta, Mayor of Lithuania’s Varėna district issued a message on the occasion of the 105th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. ARMENPRESS reports the message runs as follows,

‘’Today marks the 105th anniversary of the Armenian genocide. This date is important and worth mentioning. The date is important, as at the beginning of the 20th century, the crimes against the Armenian people - which resulted in the deaths of millions of people, the expulsion from their land, the destruction of culture - were not properly assessed by the world community. This had provoked other heinous crimes - Nazi crimes against the Jewish people, Holocaust, and a whole host of crimes committed by other dictatorships against the ethnic and social groups.

In 2005, Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania acknowledged the fact of the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire and I am proud of that. I hope that more parliaments in the world will follow suit, even...