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The Federal Judge of Argentina, Norberto Oyarbide [es], issued a historic ruling on April 1, 2011, in which he condemned the Turkish state for committing the crime of genocide against the Armenian population.
The cause started as a result of the presented testimonial in December of 2000 by scribe Gregorio Hairabedian, a descendant of assassinated Armenians, who asked for an investigation to determine the fate of 50 of his direct relatives in the Armenian provinces (vilayets) of Paulú and Zeitún, under the power of the former Ottoman Empire.

This action was later joined by the Armenian Collective of Buenos Aires for the murder of the Armenian population in the provinces of Trebizonda, Erzerum, Bitlis, Diarbekir, Jarput and Sivas, which, according to the historic estimations, cost 1.5 million Armenians their lives in the first genocide of the 20th Century.
From April 23 to April 24 of 1915, approximately 650 Armenian ruling classes of Constantinople were detained, deported to Anatolia and assassinated. Following this, the order for deportation from civil towns, from the war zones in the Caucasus to reinstallation centers in the deserts of Syria and Mesopotamia, was passed.

The same outline of arrest and assassination of the leaders and men older than 15 years of age, along with the deportation of the rest of the population — the elderly, women and children — to the deserts of Syria, repeated throughout all of the Armenian towns.
It is worth mentioning that Argentina received an important stream of Armenian immigrants fleeing from the genocide, whose descendants maintain their customs and traditions, grouped under distinct institutions that form the Armenian Collective
Currently, the Armenian collective in Argentina estimates that there are approximately one hundred to one hundred and twenty thousand Armenians. Seven Armenian schools, seven Armenian churches, as well as Catholic and Evangelical churches have been established, along with two daily newspapers, three radio programs, various political organization, charitable groups, social and sports clubs, restaurants, cultural groups such as choirs, Armenian folk dance and theater groups, musical bands, numerous youth groups and scout groups, among others.

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