At full Council meeting of 14th December 2010, Ealing council voted by majority to recognise 1915 incidents in the Ottoman Empire as “Armenian genocide”, Panorama.am reported.
The motion moved by Ara Iskandarian a Labour Councillor of Armenian decent, stated:
“Holocaust Memorial Day on 27 January 2011 is recognition of not only the suffering of those who died in the holocaust but also recognition of all the people who have suffered as a result of genocide.”
The London Borough of Ealing is home to an Armenian Community of several thousand and has hosted an Armenian population since shortly after the First World War. The borough has subsequently been seen as the centre of Armenian community life within the United Kingdom.
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