During the “Against the Crime of Genocide” global forum, Esabelle Dingizian, third deputy speaker of the Swedish parliament of Armenian descent, shared her grandmother’s story of being deported. According to armradio.am, she talked about how 12-year-old Esabelle witnessed the horrors of the massacres, lost her mother and all of her relatives in 1915.

“My grandmother and thousands of Armenians underwent intolerable sufferings and walked through the deserts for hours,” Esabelle Dingizian said and mentioned that she was named Isabelle in honor of her grandmother who died at the age of 104, having the image of 1915 flashing in front of her eyes throughout her lifetime. “The Parliament of Sweden has called for Armenian Genocide recognition,” the Swedish parliament’s third deputy speaker Esabelle Dingizian announced and talked about the Turks who went against the Ottoman Empire and refused to commit a crime in 1915.

In closing, the Swedish parliamentary speaker called on condemning all types of genocides.