Justice

We are all responsible for what is going on in the Middle East.

All together we can stop inhumane actions and killings of innocent people. 

The Armenian community expresses solidarity with our Assyrian brothers and sisters, to the suffering that they are experiencing today in the Middle East as a result of the violence against minorities.

We Armenians, who sow the genocides, unjust,  understand very well your struggles and pain.

Because humanity fails to condemn the genocide that was committed 100 years ago, executed against Armenians,  Assyrians, and Greeks in Turkey  –

History repeats it’s self today.

What is happening today is direct projection of genocide that my nation faced a century back.

Yesterday was ottomans Turkey, Today its ISIS,    

What is coming tomorrow?

It is double tragedy, losing the lives and the destruction of the Assyrian   culture. 

People are being forced out of their homeland where they lived build culture for thousands of years. 

Armenians in Syria, in Iraq face similar prosecutions, and challenges, that the Assyrian brothers do.

People tortured, murdered Forced to change their religion. 

Participating in this vigil united we say, not on our watch. 

We are not bystanders’ any more, we will be vocal and active to stop this unjust. 

Educating the public, writing about it, talking about it, praying, this are our tools to make a difference and stop the killings.

There is hope in bright Assyrian future, I can see that in the faces of hard working Assyrian American Cultural Organization, Assyrian Student Association, and in your faces that are here today, working together.

We can and we will lead the way to more enlightened, carrying and just society.  

speech delivered by

FR Zacharia Saribekyan