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May 2018
The City of Laval officially recognizes the Pontic Greek Genocide
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Yesterday May 1st the City of Laval voted unanimously the Motion brought
forward by Aglaia Revelakis for the recognition of the Pontic Greek
Genocide, seconded by Vasilios Karidogianis.
In a press release, Municipal Councillor for Chomedey, Mrs Aglaia
Revelakis issued the following statement:
**The Councillor for Chomedey, Aglaia Revelakis, is very satisfied with
the decisions taken by the members of the City Council during the last
meeting held yesterday, May 1, as well as the unanimous adoption of her
proposal to recognize the Pontian Greek Genocide.**
It was during the April 2018 Council meeting, following numerous
mentions and proposal attempts in recent years, that the
Councillor for Chomedey tabled a resolution to have the Pontic
Greek Genocide recognized by the City of Laval, like many cities
in Quebec, Canada and the world.
This resolution, which had been repeatedly rejected behind the scenes by
the current administration, finally reached the proposal stage and was
then adopted, as a result of Aglaia Revelakis' exemplary and relentless
work of representation and conciliation with the various political and
community actors in Laval. It was therefore in a packed room and under
general standing ovation that her resolution was adopted unanimously.
**" Today, we officially recognize and commemorate the memory of those
who were exterminated, massacred or deported from their native land and
whose children and grandchildren now live in Laval”**, addressed Aglaia
Revelakis after the council meeting, to a very important group of
representatives of the Hellenic community who came for the occasion. «
**This is a solemn and historic moment for you, who now participate in
our Canadian society** ”, she added.
On Wednesday morning, May 2, His Excellency Dimitrios Azemopoulos,
Ambassador of Greece to Canada, called Aglaia Revelakis to thank
and congratulate her on behalf of the Greek government and the
Hellenic community in Canada.
The Greek genocide, including the Pontic genocide, was the systematic
genocide of the Christian Ottoman Greek population from its historic
homeland in Anatolia during World War I and its aftermath (1914–1922).
It was instigated by the government of the Ottoman Empire and the
Turkish national movement against the indigenous Greek population of the
Empire and it included massacres, forced deportations involving death
marches, summary expulsions, arbitrary execution, and the destruction of
Eastern Orthodox cultural, historical, and religious monuments.
According to various sources, several hundred thousand Ottoman Greeks
died during this period. Most of the refugees and survivors fled to
Greece (amounting to over a quarter of the prior population of Greece).
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