During a meeting with the faithful prior to the Great Lent, famous Polish clergyman Tadeusz Isakowicz Zaleski called on everyone to respect the memory of the victims of the massacres in Volyn and the Armenian Genocide, as Rcecz Krotoszynska newspaper reports, according to News.am.

After talking about the massacres of Volyn during a mass held in Krotoszynska city in central Poland, the clergyman also touched upon the history of the Armenian people and the emigration of the Armenians. “The Armenians who migrated to Poland mainly settled in eastern Poland. Turk nationalists planned the Armenian Genocide and were guided by the slogan “Turkey for the Turks”,” the clergyman said.

“First, they would kill the Armenians in masses and then displace the living. Out of 2 million Armenians (residing in the territory of the Ottoman Empire-ed.), nearly 1.5 million were killed. To this day, Turkey doesn’t recognize those events as genocide. In the beginning, no country condemned the Armenian Genocide. The Vatican was the only one that did. When the Germans unleashed WWII, Hitler said useless nations had to be eliminated. He didn’t fear responsibility and asked who remembered the Armenians,” Isakowicz Zaleski emphasized.