SYDNEY & MELBOURNE: Thousands of Armenian-Australians, Assyrian-Australians and Greek-Australians rallied simultaneously in Sydney and Melbourne in the #SpeakUpScoMo March for Justice, calling for Prime Minister Scott Morrison and his Government to officially recognise the 1915 genocides suffered by the ancestors of the three represented communities at the hands of the Ottoman Empire.
Prime Minister Morrison, who called for Federal Australian recognition of the Armenian Genocide as a backbench MP in 2011, failed to correctly characterise the crimes of 1915 in his 2021 statement, despite acknowledging Australia’s first major international humanitarian relief effort to aid the “dispossession, deportations and deaths” suffered during the events.
The Sydney March for Justice took over the Central Business District on Saturday afternoon, beginning at The Domain, carrying through the partially blocked Macquarie Street, College Street and Park Street, before ending with a special program on the steps of the Sydney Town Hall on George Street.
MC Hoory Yeldizian opened proceedings after the Armenian, Assyrian and Greek national anthems, a traditional indigenous smoking ceremony and prayer led by clergy.
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