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MARCH 2, 2019 Mirror-SpeTHE ARMENIAN ctator Volume LXXXIX, NO. 32, Issue 4576 $ 2.00 NEWS The First English Language Armenian Weekly in the United States Since 1932 INBRIEF Another Armenian Genocide Survivor Dies In Argentina at Church in Turkey Age 106 Vandalized with BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (Prensa Armenia) — Lusine Beredjiklian, one of the last survivors of the Hate Graffiti Armenian Genocide, died on February 21, at age 106. ISTANBUL (Combined Sources) — She was born on January 7, 1913 in Aintab. Another Armenian church in Istanbul, “When I remember, I cannot sleep,” Beredjiklian Turkey, has been vandalized with anti- said in 2015, when the 100th anniversary of the Armenian graffiti, the Armenian Armenian Genocide was commemorated. Patriarchate of Constantinople announced Beredjiklian said her father, Abraham, was a jew- on Facebook. eler. He sent his elder sons to Aleppo when World Vandals spray painted hate messages in War I had just started and later the entire family English and Arabic on the exterior wall of decided to go to Syria. On the way to Aleppo they the Surp Hreshdagabed Armenian Church were looted. Her mother, pregnant at that time, in the neighborhood of Balat on Saturday, died on the way, while Abraham died in Damascus. February 23. After that her brothers moved to Argentina, but The local council members reported the Lusine remained in Syria with her sister until 1929, matter to Archbishop Aram Ateshian as after which they also moved to South America. well as the local police. All her life Beredjiklian lived in Buenos Aires and This is not the first incident in which was one of the active members of the local Armenian institutions have been the target Armenian community.
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