The last British Armenian, who survived the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire in 1915, deceased in London at the age of 98 the other day. As reported by Guardian London edition, it was Armen Keshishian, who being a 10-year-old boy could hardly avoid the massacre perpetrated by the government of the Young Turks at the beginning of the last century. He and some of his relatives survived thanks to gold and valuable given to a native inhabitant to save their lives. First they escaped for Cyprus and many years later being a married man already Armen Keshishian moved to London. According to the newspaper, he was one of the elders of the Armenian community, who in 1991 handed the national flag of Armenia to first Armenian Ambassador to Great Britain Armen Sargsian. This tricolor is still symbolizing the Armenian Embassy in London.
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