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Armenian tribute cross smashed

Jan 28 2008 by Martin Shipton, Western Mail

A MEMORIAL stone commemorating an estimated one-and-a-half million Armenians massacred by Ottoman Turks in 1915 was desecrated in Cardiff at the weekend.

Organisers of a National Holocaust Day event discovered yesterday morning the slate cross on the monument by the Temple of Peace in Cathays Park had been smashed with a hammer.

Many Turks object to the description of the 1915 massacres as a holocaust, and yesterday a single Turkish heckler with a megaphone sought to drown out prayers and speeches at the desecrated monument attended by members of Wales’ small Armenian community.

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