Author Merrill D. Peterson died

Author of `Starving Armenians: America and the Armenian Genocide,
1915-1930 and After’ died
27.09.2009 19:56 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Merrill D. Peterson, the noted Jeffersonian scholar
and author of `Starving Armenians: America and the Armenian Genocide,
1915-1930 and After,’ died in Charlottesville. He was 88.

Peterson, who was a University of Virginia history professor, former
chairman of the History Department and dean of the faculty of the
College of Arts & Sciences, wrote or edited 37 books.

At the age of 76, he joined the Peace Corps. The time he spent in
Armenia resulted in a book, `Starving Armenians: America and the
Armenian Genocide, 1915-1930 and After.’, Asbarez.com reported.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS