Month: April 2007

MARTYRS OF THE ARMENIAN HOLOCAUST REMEMBERED IN HOLY LAND

The Indian Catholic, India
April 26 2007

ROME (CNA): On Tuesday the Franciscans charged with the care of the
Holy Land celebrated the "Day of Memory of the Armenian People,"
recalling the legacy of the missionary martyrs who worked in Armenian
territory occupied by the Turks.

"From 1894 to 1923, an unheard-of tragedy befell the Armenian people
without distinction for sex or age, almost completely annihilating
this Christian people that was the first to accept Christianity in
the year 301 as the religion of the nation," the Franciscan Custodians
of the Holy Land said in a statement released on the internet.

The statement also took note of the "indiscriminate massacre of
Christians" in which "a large number of missionary Franciscans of the
Holy Land lost their lives, and the Latin rite faithful of Armenia
were also immolated."

Among those remembered during the commemoration were "Blessed Salvatore
Lilli and seven companion martyrs, killed by the Turks for their faith;
Brother Vittore Urrutia, starved to death for helping to save other
parishioners from the massacre; Brother Pasquale Boladian, starved
to death; Father Patrizio Werkley, who was killed while taking care
of typhus victims," as well as many others.

"May the memory and sacrifice of this people obtain from God peace
in the world and fraternal understanding between all believers,"
the statement emphasized in conclusion.

Armenian genocide

On April 24, 1915, Turkey arrested and executed hundreds of Armenian
leaders, initiating what many call the holocaust of at least a
million and a half of the two million Armenians who lived under the
Turkish Empire.

The Armenian people lived as second-class citizens in the Ottoman
Empire. Between 1884 and 1197, an estimated 300,000 were massacred.

Between 1915 and 1917, many were deported and possibly up to a million
and a half were executed.

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AUTHOR WITH LOCAL TIES TO LAUNCH BOOK TOUR AT ESU
by Dan Berrett
Pocono Record Writer

Pocono Record, PA
April 26 2007

A 15-year-old girl named Ester Minerajian Ahronian Ajemian was walking
home from school through the village of Amasia in Armenia one afternoon
in 1915.

She saw a man, whom Ester thought was no older than 17, with his
hands bound behind him. A group of Turkish soldiers walked with him,
their guns jabbed into his back.

As they passed, Ester heard the man whispering the Lord’s Prayer
in Armenian.

They took him to a large wooden platform in the town square where a
crowd quickly formed.

"I sucked in my breath," Ester recalled. "I was about to witness a
hanging and my blood was racing."

The soldiers tied a noose around the boy’s neck.

"He shouted one word – Asvadzeem ­– Armenian for "my God" before
the trap door under him snapped open," Ester said.

He jerked and kicked his legs before the life drained from his body.

"His eyes were staring wide open when another soldier near the platform
sliced open the boy’s stomach. His insides hit the ground in a bloody
clump and splashed in all directions."

Ester turned to the wall and vomited, then ran home to tell her
grandmother what she had just seen.

"Grandmom smacked me hard," Ester recounted. "’Tell no one what
you saw’."

The passage appears about one-third of the way through "A Knock at
the Door," a new memoir written by Ester’s daughter, Margaret Ajemian
Ahnert. The scene marks the beginning of three years of hell in
Ester’s life – spanning a death march, her rape and being essentially
enslaved by a Turkish family – all of which Ahnert recounts in her
mother’s voice. The narrative gives readers an intimate view of
the Armenian genocide, which was carried out by the Ottoman Empire
between 1915-1918.

The book was released by Beaufort Press on Tuesday to coincide with
the 92nd anniversary of the deportations of Armenian intellectuals
and leaders in Constantinople. On Monday, Ahnert will be kicking off
her national book tour with a free public lecture at East Stroudsburg
University.

Ahnert is beginning her tour in the Poconos because of her family ties
to the area. She is the widow of Robert Ahnert, the former co-owner,
with his brother Harry, of Fernwood Resorts. Her late husband was
an ESU graduate; the university’s alumni center was named after her
brother-in-law. She lived here for 21 years.

She grew up in New York hearing her mother’s stories of the old
country. They were fairly benign, for the most part, and filled with
folk wisdom, though there were hints of the brutality her mother
had endured.

"I think when you’re young, you don’t realize the impact of what
you’re hearing," Ahnert said. "I thought they were painful stories
my mother lived through."

It wasn’t until she was 17, when Ahnert read Franz Werfel’s "The Forty
Days of Musa Dagh," that the full weight of her family’s history and
its connection to the larger genocide – the first of the bloody 20th
century – became clear.

"When I read that book, I suddenly realized this was something my
mother lived through," Ahnert said Wednesday from her home in Ft.

Lauderdale, Fla. "Then I started asking her questions and she’d tell
me more things. I’d always write her story down and it’d be amazing
to me."

Ahnert collected notebooks full of stories from her mother. Over the
years, her mother’s recollection of the details remained constant.

Ahnert assembled the memories into the memoir’s narrative of her
mother’s traumas, which she alternates with an account 83 years later,
as she visits her mother in an Armenian home for the aged.

"It’s been brewing all my life," Ahnert said of the book, which
she wrote as her master’s of fine arts thesis at Goucher College in
Baltimore, Md.

Her motives for writing were personal at first. "It started out as
a family memoir," she said. "So that my children and grandchildren
would know what my mother lived through."

But the history itself remains bitterly contested. Turkey continues
to deny or downplay what happened, often depicting the genocide as
happening in the fog of war as the Ottoman Empire crumbled, and saying
that both sides suffered.

A measure scheduled to come to the floor of the U.S. House
of Representatives, which would have joined 15 other nations in
classifying the event as genocide, has brought the issue back to center
stage. The issue has tied the U.S. government in knots because Turkey
is a key ally in the Middle East and a source of oil.

Historians say that as many as 1.5 million Armenians died in the
genocide, with many more deported, driven from their homes, tortured,
massacred and starved.

Ironically, Armenians themselves were part of the process of burying
history. Ahnert writes that her father often urged her to mortseer,
or forget.

"The Armenians came here and tried to forget," she said. "By forcing
themselves to forget, the world forgot. It’s still denied and the
world didn’t even know about it."

She said she often gives readings and asks those in attendance if
they have heard about the Armenian genocide. She’s lucky if one raises
her hand.

Ahnert hopes her book will raise awareness. "On a broader scale, if
my neighbors and other non-Armenians now know something they didn’t
know, that would please me very much."

IF YOU GO…

What: Lecture by Margaret Ajemian Ahnert, author of "A Knock at
the Door," a memoir of her mother’s experience during the Armenian
genocide.

When: Monday at 5:15 p.m.

Where: Beers Lecture Hall, East Stroudsburg University How much:
Free and open to the public For more information: Call 570 422-3532

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ORWELL’S VISION OF THE FUTURE COMES TO BRITAIN
By Dusty Loy
Iowa State Daily (Iowa State U.)

The Daily Athenaeum Interactive, WV
Iowa State University
April 26 2007

The European Union continues to inch closer to the dystopia foreseen
by George Orwell in his novel "1984." In Orwell’s novel the main
character is a party member in a socialist, totalitarian government
that perpetuates its power through omnipresent surveillance and
perpetually seeking out "thoughtcrime," such as holding views that
were contrary to what the party wishes individuals to think. In the
main character’s diary, he explains it thusly: "Thoughtcrime does
not entail death: thoughtcrime is death," and "Thoughtcrime is the
only crime that matters."

After six years of work, the European Union announced in Luxembourg
last week that they had come to an agreement on new legislation that
is intended to combat hate crimes, xenophobia racism. The document is
titled "Council Framework Decision on combating racism and xenophobia."

The document defines racism and xenophobia as "publicly condoning,
denying or grossly trivialising … and directed against a group of
persons or a member of such a group defined by reference to race,
colour, religion, descent or national or ethnic origin when the
conduct is carried out in a manner likely to incite to violence or
hatred against such a group or a member of such a group."

The penalties for possessing such irrational fears of foreigners
include one to three years in prison as well as exclusion from
entitlement to public benefits or aid, temporary or permanent
disqualification from the practice of commercial activities, or being
placed under judicial supervision.

Therefore, if an E.U. citizen "grossly trivializes" or "publicly
condones" the Armenian genocide — exactly what several groups were
doing in Times Square in New York City on Sunday — they would get
thrown into jail for three years and be banned from having a job or
benefits of the state upon release.

The new rules would completely protect any event labeled as genocide
by the International Criminal Court in the Hauge, and thus any views
differing from theirs are severely punished.

In "1984," to enforce this plethora of regulations on thoughtcrime
while maintaining their iron grip on individual thought, the state
of Oceania enacted a surveillance society.

They had omnipresent devices called telescreens, televisions equipped
with video cameras that informed citizens when they broke the rules
and aided the "Thought Police" in locating and squelching dissent.

Britain recently introduced talking closed-circuit television cameras
that will allow police to tell individuals to stop misbehaving through
a built-in microphone and speaker.

In Middlesbrough, monitors in a central location watch the cameras
and interact with the public through microphones. According to the
BBC, these are being extended to 20 additional areas across Britain,
and are being implemented to prevent fights and reduce litter.

The BBC also states that Britain already has more than 4.2 million
standard CCTV cameras installed across the country, that’s one camera
for every 10 individuals, with more going in every day.

Restricting freedoms because of fears and guilt is not the answer.

Even in America, knee-jerk reactionaries across the country call for
restricted freedoms whenever tragedy occurs.

Irrational fears of other cultures, tragedy, and littering are part
of a free and open society, something we except in order to maintain
individual liberty.

Europeans would be better served by exercising freedoms to inform,
convince and educate those who disagree or deny.

Draconian sentences for these thoughtcrimes combined with prevalent
monitoring only exacerbate the problem by stifling debate and
eliminating liberty.

TROUBLE AT THE L.A. TIMES
By Daniel Hernandez

LA Weekly, CA
April 26 2007

An editor kills a Page One story on Armenian genocide, and charges
of bias fly

Did the Los Angeles Times kill a front-page article about the fight
over the recognition of the Armenian genocide because its writer,
Mark Arax, is Armenian?

It’s a question L.A. Times managing editor Douglas Frantz would
probably prefer not to address.

News broke earlier this week that Frantz killed Arax’s story in a
terse email message to the writer because, Frantz said, Arax had
"a conflict of interest" and a "position on the issue." Frantz was
referring to a 2005 letter in which Arax, four other Armenian Times
staff writers and legal affairs reporter Henry Weinstein reminded the
paper’s top editors to refer to the genocide as genocide, in accordance
with the paper’s style rules. The 2005 letter had been well-received,
acknowledged, and, sources at the paper tell the L.A.

Weekly, forgotten.

But in his recent email to Arax, obtained by the Weekly, Frantz
characterized the letter as a "petition," as in some form of
activism. He also told Arax that he "went around [the] system" in a
bid to land the story assignment, by dealing with an editor in the
Times Washington bureau, Robert Ourlian, who is Armenian American.

So Frantz reassigned the story to Washington reporter Rich Simon, who
turned around a decorous and somewhat routine take on Turkey’s ongoing
mission to block Congress from recognizing the slaughter of more than
1 million Armenians by Ottoman Turkey during World War I, something
several Western developed countries – including France and Canada –
have already done. The revised Times article ran under the headline,
"Genocide Resolution Still Far From Certain" on Saturday, April 21,
four days before Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day in L.A.

Arax was given a consolation tagline at the end of the article for
having "contributed" some reporting.

Arax, sounding incensed, sent an email to some of his fellow reporters,
which made its way to the Weekly.

Here’s how it started: "Colleagues, You should know that I had a
Page One story killed this week by Doug Frantz. His stated rationale
for killing the piece had nothing to do with any problems with the
story itself. In an email to me, he cited no bias, no factual errors,
no contextual mishaps, no glaring holes."

Arax then spelled out the holes he saw in Frantz’s objections,
reiterating that the 2005 letter was not a petition, and that the
standard process was used with Ourlian to assign and edit the story.

And he pushed the dispute up a notch, going so far as to suggest that
the only person in the dustup who has a bias or personal stance is
Frantz, who lived in Turkey for years.

Said Arax, in his email: "Because his logic is so illogical, questions
must be raised about Frantz’ own objectivity, his past statements to
colleagues that he personally opposes an Armenian genocide resolution
and his friendship with Turkish government officials, including the
consul general in Los Angeles who’s quoted in my story. Frantz is
heavily involved and invested in defending the policies of Turkey."

Arax ended the note by sharing the news that he has filed
a discrimination complaint against Frantz inside the paper, and
that a Times Human Resources Department inquiry was launched. The
reporter, based in Fresno and officially assigned to the paper’s
West Sunday magazine, declined to speak to the Weekly, citing the
internal investigation. Ourlian, the Washington editor, and Frantz,
also declined to comment. Times editor James O’Shea and publisher
David Hiller did not reply to interview requests.

But Harut Sassounian, publisher of the local Armenian paper The
California Courier, has been more than willing to publicly address
the dispute. On Tuesday, Sassounian began circulating a scathing
article he penned calling for Frantz’s resignation, accusing Frantz
of discriminating against Arax because of his ethnic background.

Sassounian framed the dispute in terms the rest of Los Angeles media
can easily digest. "By the same logic, Frantz is implying that Latinos
will be barred from writing on illegal immigrants, African-American
journalists from covering civil rights, Jewish-American reporters
from writing about the Holocaust and Asian-Americans [from] covering
issues peculiar to their community," Sassounian wrote.

Sassounian told the Weekly he learned about the matter from people
who had been interviewed by Arax and were waiting for his story to
be published. He said Arax never called him. The Courier publisher,
based in Glendale, said he had recently met David Hiller at a dinner
event and had a cordial conversation with him. So he called the Times
publisher directly to find out what happened to Arax’s piece. Within
minutes, Sassounian said, he got a call back – from Douglas Frantz.

Sassounian said Frantz was "abrupt" and "evasive," telling Sassounian
that there was "no problem" and that the story needed "depth and
balance." Sassounian said he warned Frantz that if it turned out
Arax’s story was axed simply because Arax is Armenian, a confrontation
would arise between the paper and the L.A. Armenian community, which
happens to be the largest in the world outside Armenia. That’s when
Frantz went bonkers, Sassounian said.

"He says to me, ‘I’m going to hang up on you! You’ve threatened me! I
said, ‘I didn’t threaten you.’ He said, ‘You threatened me. I’m going
to hang up.’"

And Frantz did, he contends. Hiller and O’Shea, Sassounian said,
treated him much differently. Sassounian said that in conversations
with the Times publisher and editor, they apologized for Frantz’s
behavior and said they would not tolerate any bias against the
Armenian community in their paper’s pages. "They all apologized for
his behavior, for accusing me of threatening him," Sassounian said.

When the Sassounian piece started making the rounds, Frantz quickly
shot back, defending his actions to media blog LAObserved: "I put a
hold on a story because of concerns that the reporter had expressed
personal views about the topic in a public manner and therefore was
not a disinterested party," Frantz told the blog.

But who’s really the disinterested party here?

Frantz was a longtime correspondent based in Istanbul for both The
New York Times and the L.A. Times. As Sassounian noted, Frantz is
scheduled to be back in Istanbul next month to moderate a panel for the
International Press Institute’s World Congress that is titled, "Turkey:
Sharing the Democratic Experience." Among the panelists is Andrew
Mango, who Sassounian describes as a "notorious genocide denialist."

And then there’s the matter of Frantz’s coverage of the Armenian
genocide while at The New York Times. In January 2001 the paper ran
a correction on Frantz’s reporting, for downplaying the genocide. A
month later, the Armenian National Committee of America put out an
action alert again accusing Frantz of downplaying the genocide and
casting it as merely an Armenian allegation. The paper never ran
a second correction. Frantz joined the L.A. Times as a reporter in
Istanbul, brought on by his friend, then-managing editor Dean Baquet,
who left the paper in spectacular fashion late last year and then
rejoined The New York Times.

The L.A. Times dispute over Arax’s killed story became public on
Tuesday, April 24 – the massacre’s traditional remembrance day. All
day long, cars and trucks driving in Little Armenia in Hollywood were
draped with Armenia’s red, blue and orange flag. A somber march and
rally was held on Hobart Street. The few young people the Weekly spoke
with after the Unified Young Armenians rally said they had not heard
of the controversy at the L.A. Times, but spoke with a refreshing
sense of naunce about the imperatives of history.

"It’s politics," said Sevak Ghazaryan, 19, a student at Glendale
Community College. "Turkey and United States are very close. The
United States has a military base in Turkey, and businesswise they
import a lot of goods from Turkey for cheap price, likewise for oil.

So therefore, Turkey plays a big role in business and economy for
the U.S. It’s just politics."

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KIEV DOCUMENTARY FEST CROWDS DOWN
By Tom Birchenoughmoscow

Variety
April 26 2007

Audiences lose ‘Contact’ with event

Maybe the audiences were out on the Kiev streets, where an ongoing
round-off between opposing Ukrainian political factions continues. At
least, attendance from general public and students alike at the city’s
"Contact" documentary fest that closed April 20, looked distinctly
down.

Running in its third edition, event showed a distinct lack of talent in
the local sector, with Contact’s jury declining to award a main prize
in the national section of competition, though $2,000 prizes went to
two works, "Dissidents" from Oleksandr Frolov and Victor Shkurin,
and to Maxim Chernysh for "The Spiral of History." The former told
the stories of 1960-1980s opposition personalities in a way that
looked increasingly relevant today.

Event was founded in memory of Larisa Rodnyanskaya, a docu producer
who was key to keeping the form alive in Ukraine through the very
lean years of the 1990s.

The festival is endowed by her son, Alexander Rodnyansky, himself a
past documentary filmmaker, who set up Ukraine’s major broadcaster
1+1 a decade ago, and now heads up the Russian entertainment web CTC.

Parallel international competition, judged by a jury headed by U.K.

filmmaker Paul Watson, looked more promising — and conflict, both
international and domestic, featured strongly in the more interesting
works.

Best full-length feature went to Israeli "Bridge Over the Wadi"
from brother helmers Tomer and Barak Heymann.

Jury awarded top prize, with $5,000 attached, to Norwegian entry
"Patience in Hearts," a Down-syndrome story by Ovvind Sandberg.

Other pics that stood out came from the Middle East, and Iran in
particular. One was Mehrdad Oskuuei’s Tehran-set children’s detention
center drama "It’s Always Late for Freedom," the other "Exile Family
Movie" by Arash Riahi, the story of members of an exiled Iranian family
returning to the Iranian capital. Shafar Cohen and Efrat Halil’s
"Souvenirs" covered a WWII story on the Jewish brigade that fought
with the British army in Europe, while another conflict-driven story
was acclaimed Armenian entry "A Story of People in War and Peace"
about the impact of the Nagorno-Karabakh war.

For local color, the most relevant entry was Andrei Zagdansky’s
"Orange Winter," a montage from Ukraine’s Orange Revolution, that
scored foreign acclaim and possible international sales, even as Kiev
residents go through something of the same process today.

However, among most fest guests the more prominent questions were:
Where are the audiences? And, more immediately: Can someone get the
projection ratios right?

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KELBEJER AND LACHIN SHOULD BE LIBERATED UNEQUIVOCALLY : AZERBAIJANI FOREIGN MINISTER

Trend News Agency, Azerbaijan –
April 26 2007

Azerbaijan, Baku / corr Trend S.Agayeva / Elmar Mammadyarov, the
Azerbaijani foreign minister, stated during talks with journalists
on 26 April that, although there are still serious problems pending,
talks on the status of Nagorno-Karabakh have reached a stage where
major principles have been settled.

Azerbaijan remains loyal to the liberation of the occupied territory.

"We understand that this is impossible to achieve in one day and we
working step-by-step," the minister stressed.

"The peacekeeping forces should be placed in the liberated areas
and communication should be restored. Kelbejer and Lachin should be
liberated unequivocally, because they are, like the other occupied
districts Agdam, Jabrayil etc., under occupation," the minister stated.

Mammadyarov noted that the Azerbaijani population should
return to liberated regions. "Next we can discuss the status of
Nagorno-Karabakh," the minister stressed.

US STATE DEPARTMENT REPORT REAFFIRMS ARMENIA’S OCCUPYING AZERBAIJANI TERRITORIES

Azeri Press Agency, Azerbaijan
April 26 2007

The US State Department has again made changes to the initial 2006
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, APA reports quoting US
State Department’s website.

The State Department restored the first variant of the country report
on Azerbaijan that states "Armenia continued to occupy the Azerbaijani
territory of Nagorno-Karabakh and seven surrounding Azerbaijani
territories". This variant had been changed by the influence of
Armenian lobby.

APA’s US bureau reports the yesterday’s changes to the initial report
for the third time specifies the side [Armenia] which has occupied
the territories of Azerbaijan.

The previous changes to the State Department report caused serious
discontent of Azerbaijani side which as a result postponed its
high-level visit to Washington for the bilateral security talks,
scheduled for April 23-24.

Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry warned that the issue "may become a
serious impediment to further security-related cooperation between
our countries".

The changes "distort the essence of the Armenia-Azerbaijan
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict" and their introduction "puts in doubt
the U.S. position of the ‘honest broker’ in the resolution of the
conflict," the statement said US Embassy public affairs officer
Jonathan Henick confirmed that the State Department country report
on human rights practices has been changed for the third time.

AZERBAIJAN KEEN TO LIBERATE ARMENIAN-OCCUPIED TERRITORY – SENIOR STATE OFFICER

Trend News Agency, Azerbaijan
April 26 2007

Azerbaijan, Baku / corr Trend S.Agayeva / Novruz Mammadov, the
head of the Foreign Relations Department, stated on 26 April that
Azerbaijan wants total liberation from Armenian occupation, of both
Nagorno-Karabakh and its surrounding districts.

The comments were made in reply to a statement by the US Ambassador
Matthew Bryza, the OSCE Minsk Group co-chair, who said that major
principles of talks envisages the withdrawal and return to Azerbaijan
of troops from 5 occupied districts attached to Nagorno-Karabakh,
placement of peacekeeping forces and the repatriation of refugees
and internally displaced people.

Mammadov said that the Azerbaijan President has, on numerous
occasions, stated Azerbaijan’s position in this respect which remains
unchanged. Despite different statements by the OSCE Minsk Group
co-chairs Azerbaijan retains its position on the liberation of its
occupied territory, he stated.

PETER SEMNEBY TO VISIT NAGORNO KARABAKH IN MAY

Azeri Press Agency, Azerbaijan
April 26 2007

"I have arrived in Baku for one-day visit as the European Union
approaches media issues very attentively. Of course, I am interested
in concrete issues, and I discussed these issues in my previous visits
and I intend to keep on debating these issues again", European Union
Special Representative for the South Caucasus Peter Semneby exclusively
told APA.

He said there are no specific standards of criminal responsibility
for libeling about any person.

"We hold the position that a journalist should not be arrested for
his articles. I have already faced this problem in other states. I
experienced that the best way in the situation is to remove article
punishing for libel from Criminal Code".

EU envoy expressed concern over the arrest of Eynulla Fatullayev chief
editor of "Gundalik Azerbaijan" and "Realni Azerbaijan" newspapers
and other journalists. "I am sure I will be able to discuss these
issues with Azerbaijani officials during my short stay in Baku".

Peter Semneby said his next visit to Nagorno Karabakh-Armenia-occupied
territory of Azerbaijan will take place in mid May.

ONE MORE AZERBAIJANI CAPTURED BY ARMENIANS

Azeri Press Agency, Azerbaijan
April 26 2007

One more missing Azerbaijani is said to have been captured by Armenians
on May 8-9, 1992 during the occupation of Shusha, well-informed source
told the APA’s Karabakh bureau.

According to the information, the soldier is the resident of
Khelfeli village of Shusha Elshen Asadov. Armenians name the captured
Azerbaijanis by Armenian criminals, release the criminals and involve
them in diversion acts against Azerbaijan and other countries.

Shahin Sayilov, secretary of the State Commission on Prisoners of War,
Hostages and Missing Persons told the APA they are aware of Elshen
Asadov’s missing. He said that his name was included into the book
published by the commission "Rescue us from captivity". The book
quoted several sources about Armenians’ capturing Asadov.

According to the source, Asadov was captured along with seen
Azerbaijanis in battles for Kirs Mountain on the day Shusha was
occupied. The testimonies of the witnesses about his being in Khankendi
are also noted in the book.

Commenting on the reports about giving the names of Armenian criminals
to Azerbaijanis and involving them in diversion acts in Azerbaijan
and other countries, Sayilov said they have no such information.

"It is possible. But we will investigate it through official and
unofficial channels if there is specific fact," he said.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress