Sunday morning at 9 am, the Pope will celebrate Mass François in the Basilica of St. Peter in Rome on the occasion of the centenary of the Armenian Genocide in the presence of the President of the Republic of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan and His Holiness Karekin II, Catholicos of All Armenians. Mass will be celebrated in Armenian rite.
That same day at 22:15 on France 5, Armenian Genocide, the 1915 spectrum, a poignant documentary based on the testimonies of Turks whose history is linked to massacres of 1915. With Hasan Cemal, journalist and writer, grand-son of Cemal Pacha plannificateurs -one of the genocide-which, after a personal journey, married the Armenian cause and is now working to recognize the genocide. There also Fethiye Cetin, lawyer and human rights which, in adulthood, discovered the Armenian roots that her grandmother had hidden to survive when she was a child. She then led us in his footsteps in the village where the latter spent his childhood in an attempt to reconstruct its history. The camera goes to meet those who are trying to give a place to the Armenian community in the current Turkish society and into the museum erected in Yerevan, Armenia, in memory of the victims. But it also crosses Turks still deny activism with the reality of a genocidal massacre. A moving panorama of the weight of a controversial Turkish past.
Jean Eckian © armenews.com