Andrea Cazu, a member of the Chamber of Deputies of Italy and a member of the Democratic Party, made a statement.
“On the night of April 24, 1915, the arrests began. Within a month, many Armenians, including journalists, writers, poets, and members of parliament, were deported and massacred on the way to Ankara.
In the spring, after the disarmament and massacre of the military, the Ottoman authorities began the mass deportation of the Armenian people, followed by a campaign of systematic killings. Death marches exterminated most, the few survivors starved to death in camps in the Syrian desert.
As a result, one and a half million people were killed, including Armenian women, men, and children, and Assyrians and Greeks, who disappeared from the lands they inhabited for more than two thousand years.
On the Armenian Genocide Memorial Day and every day, we always keep the memory of the victims alive in Italy “so that the future filled with peace and mutual understanding between peoples and states may arise from the sufferings of the past,” as is written on the plaque placed near the tree planted by President Mattarella on the occasion of his visit to the memorial in Yerevan.
