With tune and Pyrrhic dance they commemorated the Pontian Genocide Remembrance Day – 2024-05-23 01:51:46

2024-05-23 01:51:46

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“I do not neglect” was for yet another yr the message of the occasions for the Nationwide Remembrance Day for the Genocide of the Greeks of Pontus, organized within the East, by the Area of Epirus and the Municipality of Ioannita, in collaboration with the Brotherhood of Pontus and Asia Minor of Epirus.

The occasions started with a eulogy on the Holy Church of God Sophia of the East after which moved to the Monument of the Forgotten Homelands, the place a lot of folks and representatives of authorities and companies attended, together with the final secretary of Demographic and Housing Coverage Marina Stefou, the regional governor Alexandros Kahrimanis , the mayor of Ioannina Thomas Begas and the MP of Ioannina of the New Left Meropi Tzoufi.
The keynote speech was given by the group councilor of Anatoli Cleopatra Papoutsi and was adopted by the laying of wreaths. Touching moments of the occasion have been when the choir “Unpaved Homeland” of the Brotherhood of Pontus and Asia Minor of Epirus sang the standard tune “I misplaced my homeland”, in addition to when the dancers of the Brotherhood danced the pyrrhic dance.
The genocide of 353,000 Pontians by the Turkish state was formally acknowledged by the Hellenic Parliament on February 24, 1994, when it unanimously voted to designate Could 19 because the Day of Remembrance of the Genocide of the Pontic Greeks with Regulation 2193/1994.

Georgia Halatsi

Graduated from the Division of Journalism and Media of the College of Economics and Political Sciences of A.U.Th. Since 2005, she has been working in native newspapers in Ioannina, in tv and radio stations, whereas she has labored, as a correspondent for Epirus, in a nationwide tv station. He trains younger folks on the Public IEK of Ioannina, in specializations associated to journalism. He offers each day with various kinds of reporting, with a specific curiosity in native authorities, tourism, native entrepreneurship and innovation. He’s a member of the Union of Editors of Day by day Newspapers of Peloponnese, Epirus and the Islands (ESHEPN).