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Armenian Genocide Memorial Placed in Idaho Park

by Asbarez Staff
November 23, 2009
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Tim Campbell, left, and Martin Babayan place a granite memorial stone at Twin Falls City Park on Saturday.

TWIN FALLS, ID (Magic Valley News)—The Armenian community of Idaho inaugurated on Saturday a granite memorial stone to the Armenian Genocide at the Twin Falls City Park, reported the Magic Valley News.

The memorial is a permanent reminder that the Turks killed between one-million and 1.5 million Armenians between 1915 and 1923 that were living in what was then the Ottoman Empire (now Turkey).

The Twin Falls City Council approved the memorial in September by a 4-3 vote after considerable debate. The Armenian American community in Twin Falls donated the tree and plaque.

26-year-old Liyah Babayan, who came to Twin Falls from Armenia with her family when she was 11, spent much of this year lobbying and raising money for the granite memorial that was placed at Twin Falls City Park on Saturday.

Babayan approached Twin Falls Mayor Lance Clow early this year with a petition requesting the memorial.

“He let me know that it might be an obstacle to place this type of plaque and memorial on city property,” Babayan said, explaining that the city wants plaques to commemorate events that have direct historic ties to the Twin Falls community. “The memorial commemorates a historic event that happened overseas.”

She explained that the memorial brings awareness to why Armenian refugees are in Twin Falls.

“It really means a lot to my parents and my grandparents,” said Babayan, now a U.S. citizen who witnessed the fall of the Soviet Union as a child in Armenia, then a part of the Communist union of 16 nation states.

“We have rooted ourselves in this community. I grew up here. We own a business in Twin Falls,” Babayan said, adding that many other Armenians who came to Twin Falls as refugees are today United States citizens and contribute to the community.

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  1. Frank says:
    13 years ago

    God Bless you guys for placing that memorial stone in the Twin Falls City Park.
    We are from Cayseri and in my family they killed a lot of people.
    One of my grandfathers side of the family they wiped out eveybody except him.
    The church took him and placed him in an orphnage
    Crime of this magnatude was planned  by Turks.
    We must have memorial stones like this everywhere in the world
    Where I live we have one and I hope all those places that dont have a memorial stone work hard to get one.

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  2. Gayane says:
    13 years ago

    Liyah and those that contributed to this memorial .. THANK YOU

    You have done a great job.. It shows to everyone that no matter what, we can’t forget our past..

    Continue your hard work and this gives me inspiration to do the same..

    Gayane

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