Georgia festival for raising awareness of Kurdish and Armenian genocide
11/08/2012 15:29
ERBIL, August 11 (AKnews) – Badrkhan Publishers is organizing a Kurdish
culture festival in Georgia for the end of this month to raise awareness
of the Kurdish and Armenian genocides.
Director of the
publishers Hamid Badrkhan said: "In order to build a bridge between
Kurds and world, we decided to hold a culture festival in Georgia on
August 28."
Badrkhan said a collection of activities
will be carried out under the name "Kurdistan towards a bright future",
such as seminars, an art exhibition and parties.
The director added: "Children and women are also participating in the event to show their work."
Preparations
for the festival are now complete. Forty Kurdish artists and
intellectuals from the UK have confirmed their participation in the
event.
On June 14, 1988 the former Iraqi regime carried out a series of genocides under the name Anfal against the Kurdish people.
By Dawan Hadi
HH/DM/AKnews
