“My grandmother was forced to leave her exhausted mother in the desert” Deputy Speaker of the Swedish Parliament

 

“I hope 100th anniversary will become a year of thinking for everyone”, – today announced Deputy Speaker of Swedish Parliament and successor of Genocide survivors Armenian by nationality Isabella Dingizyan at the Global Forum “Against the Crime of Genocide” held in Yerevan. During her speech she told about the tragic story of her grandmother. Her name was Isabella too and she was 12 years old in 1915 when she had to pass the hard and cruel way of desert with thousands of Armenians and leave her exhausted mother whom she would never see again.

 

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