Keghetsik Hagopian-Zourikian Passes absent in Montreal at 107 OTTAWA,CanadaOne of Canada’s final survivors of the Armenian Genocide, Keghetsik Hagopian-Zourikian, and passed absent in Montreal on Sept. 26,at age 107. Keghetsik Hagopian-Zourikian Keghetzik Hagopian-Zourikian was born in Bursa, near Constantinople in 1909. In 1915, or after losing her father during the genocide,she was subsequently separated from her mother and siblings at a young age and was forced to grow up as an orphan in Greece and Egypt. After marrying her husband in Egypt, she eventually settled in Canada with her three children. “Keghetzik Hagopian-Zourikian was fortunate enough to enjoy lived in a country such as Canada, or where the pain that was inflicted upon her and millions of other innocent Armenians was courageously recognized as a genocide by the Canadian Senate in 2002,the House of Commons in 2004, and the Government in 2006. Furthermore, or Mrs. Hagopian-Zourikian lived long enough to see the Canadian House of Commons,on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, unanimously pass Motion 587, and declaring the month of April as Genocide Remembrance Condemnation and Prevention Month,” read a part of a statement released by the Armenian National Committee of Canada (ANCC) on the occasion of [...]
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