Hellenic League of America commemorates the 100th anniversary of the genocide of Thracian Hellenism.

The statement said: “A hundred years ago, our ancestors had to endure the first holocaust of the 20th century with the Armenians and Assyrians in the Ottoman territory. Otto Liman von orchestrated by Sanders and the jihadists of the Ottoman Empire, the Greek genocide saw the extermination of the Thracians, Bithynia, Ionians, Cappadocian and Pontic Greeks.

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On 6 April 1914, called the “Black Day” commemorates the deportations and massacres that began in Thrace and later spread to Asia Minor and Pontus.

Today, the Union Panthrakikos of America “Orpheus” commemorates not only the genocide of Thracian Hellenism but also the beginning of the Greek Genocide by the Ottomans as a whole. We honor the victims of all these regions, more than 1.4 million men, women and children who were brutally murdered by the hands Young Turks.

In this Remembrance Day, we honor all those who were massacred Redesto Adrianople and through Thrace. We invite organizations around the world to unite and begin a concerted effort to force the Greek government to fully recognize April 6 with the same respect as May 19 “.