13 10 2007 - THE FILM “SCREAMERS” WILL BE SCREENED IN THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT IN TRIBUTE TO HRANT DINK

Friday, 12 October 2007
2ND CONVENTION OF EUROPEAN ARMENIANS:
29 COUNTRIES REPRESENTED –THE FILM “SCREAMERS” WILL BE SCREENED IN THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT IN TRIBUTE TO HRANT DINK
The Euro-Armenian Federation announces that 29 countries will be represented in the Second Convention of European Armenians which is due to be held soon. The participants - mainly leading members of the Armenian Diaspora of Europe – and other personalities with responsibilities in the political and associative domains are interested in the Armenian Question and will be attending from the European Union Countries - Germany, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Denmark, Spain, Estonia, France, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Romania, Slovenia, Slovakia, Sweden, the Czech Republic and the United Kingdom. Furthermore, participants will travel from Armenia, Canada, the United States, Georgia, Iran, Lebanon, Norway, Russia, Switzerland and Syria.
“The capacity of the convention to mobilise demonstrates the extent to which the Armenian issues constitute a focal point of interest for a number of important European citizens and also for many international observers” commented Laurent Leylekian, the executive director of the Euro-Armenian Federation.
In addition, the Federation announces that the film “Screamers”, an exceptional documentary co-produced by the BBC, which by analysing the workings of denials of genocides demonstrates their similarities, will be screened in the European Parliament after the first session, from 6:30pm to 8:00pm and in the presence of the film’s director, Carla Garapedian who is a winner of the prestigious Emmy Award.
“With this unique venue, we will be able to show to those European political personalities who often continue to ignore the perverse speeches of denial and the abjectness of denying. At this hour, when the European Parliament appears to give in and surrender its weapons to the denials of Turkey, we hope that this screening will be able to remobilise the consciences in face of an ideology which has proven to be dangerous” concluded Laurent Leylekian.
The screening of “Screamers” will honour the memory of Hrant Dink, Armenian journalist in Turkey, who in January 2007 was assassinated in Istanbul because he advocated for his country’s recognition of the Armenian genocide. The current court case against the assassin and his associates highlighted the direct responsibility of the Turkish official ideology - racial and denialist - on the motives of the murder as well as the collusion between the state apparatus and the killers.

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