Jean Eckian, Paris

To mark the 100th anniversary of the death of Jean-Jaurès (1859-1914), a large delegation of MPs and activists of the Armenian cause in France, led by Bruno Le Roux (President of the Socialist group in French National Assembly), flies today to Yerevan. 

On 1897, Jaurès was the only one to raise his voice in the House of Representatives to denounce the massacre of Armenians. He declared: "Humanity cannot live with, in its basement, the corpse of a murdered people."

At the invitation of the ARF and CDCA, the delegation will attend  ceremonies at the museum and the Memorial of the Armenian Genocide Memorial and Museum, as well as a conference at the French University of Yerevan entitled "Jean Jaurès and Armenians." The tour continues with the opening of an exhibition of Jaurès and the Armenian cause. 

Among the participants are Françoise Dumas, Luc Carvounas, Rene Rouquet, Pascal Popelin, ErwanBinet, Nathalie Nieson, Serge Franceschi, MouradPapazian (ARF), HaroutMardirossian (CDCA), Alexis Govciyan (CCAF), Richard Ananian, JirigGharapetian, Dikran Tchertchian,  VartanKaprielian (Ayp FM).