Inauguration of Katchkar in Norway

On April 21, 2007 a katchkar monument will be placed in Bergen Norway dedicated to Fridtjof Nansen (norwegian polar explorer, scientist, diplomat and humanist, Nobel Peace Prize 1922), and the victims of The Armenian Genocide 1915 by Turks.

In its book "Armenia and the Near East" (1923), Nansen one wrote
"The massacres that started in 1915 have nothing to compare with the
history of mankind. The massacres by Abdul Hamid are minor in
comparison to what today's Turks have done.And : Woe to the Armenians,
that they were ever drawn into European politics! It would have been
better for them if the name of Armenia had never been uttered by any
European diplomatist."

The initiative comes from The Armenian Society of Kaunas District in Lithuania.

When Vahan Arzumanian the head of this Society presented the project
in the Annual meeting of The Assembly of Armenians of Europe (AAE),
all the participants decided to collaborate with the organisers.

Bergen is the kingdom's second largest city, with over 225 000
inhabitants and situated on the west coast of Norway.

Jean Eckian
independent correspondent