HARVARD UNIVERSITY UNDERMINES ITS OWN PRESTIGE "IN SERVICE" OF GENOCIDAL TURKEY
By Appo Jabarian
USA Armenian Life Magazine
Nov 10, 2009
For quite some time now, Dr. Pamela Steiner, Fellow, Harvard
Humanitarian Initiative and Visiting Scientist, Harvard School of
Public Health under the guise of aiming "to improve the relationship
between Turkish and Armenian populations," has been fast at work to
pacify the Armenians, the victims of the Turkish-executed Armenian
Genocide of 1915-1923, at the expense of the victims.
A few weeks ago, during the period starting August 31, while the
infamous Turkish-dictated Protocols were being actively condemned by
the world Armenian community, Dr. Steiner and the Harvard University
along with Dr. Eileen Babbitt, and unbeknownst to the 99% of Armenians,
were quietly holding a Turkish-Armenian workshop on Sept 18-20. In
reality the so-called "conflict resolution workshop" was nothing more
than a new type of ploy that in reality aimed to promote yet one more
defrauding TARC (Turkish-Armenian Reconciliation Commission).
It’s interesting to know, why the "workshop" organizers, specifically
invited weakling individuals to "represent" the Armenian position
on the issue of the Genocide, land and monetary compensation demands
from Turkey?
Was it perhaps because they had designed to extract self-defeatist
expressions from the few hand-picked Armenian participants?
They agreed that there would be no territorial demands from Turkey
In an October 22, article titled "Turkish-Armenian dialogue initiative
by Harvard University" in the Turkish Today’s Zaman, Ali Aslan wrote:
"The Armenian participants briefly responded to the question as to
what their move would be if Turkey were to recognize the genocide
some day: They agreed that there would be no territorial demands."
Mr. Aslan made sure to lend a helping hand to the workshop organizers
in misrepresenting Armenian public opinion. Therefore, "special
attention was paid to make sure that the participant profile was
diverse."
The workshop organizers also made sure that the perpetrator community
of Turkey and the victim community of the Armenians are unjustly
equated as being "two traumatized sister communities and nations,"
putting both the victims and the perpetrators in one bag. I wonder
what would Dr. Steiner’s reaction be if others would unfairly equate
Hitler’s Nazi Germany and their Jewish victims in one cage as being
"traumatized sister communities and nations?"
While the victim community of Armenians lost its homeland in Western
Armenia and Cilicia, the perpetrator community of genocidal Turkey
confiscated the victims’ homeland along with their real and personal
properties.
Dr. Steiner’s great-grandfather Henry Morgenthau, the US ambassador
to Turkey during the Armenian Genocide, must be turning in his grave.
Amb. Morgenthau served under the beloved U.S. President Woodrow Wilson
(1913-1921) who through a binding international arbitration between
Armenia and Turkey awarded then Turkish-occupied lands in Western
Armenia back to Armenia.
If Drs. Steiner and Babbit and Harvard University’s leadership are
really serious in assisting with a genuine rapprochement between
Armenians and Turkey, then they should not allow themselves to be used
in Turkey’s political ploys to continually defraud the Armenians. But
they should give psychological counseling to the denialists and the
occupationists in Ankara.
Individuals like the self-defeatist Armenians who are mis-characterized
as "representing" the Armenians in the Diaspora and Armenia-Artsakh,
can hardly make up even a tiny percentage of the world Armenians.
By promoting these false Turkish-Armenian "dialogues," Harvard
University and its faculty members are wittingly or unwittingly
undermining the genocide victims, the Armenians’ basic human rights
to justice.
Before being administered any professional "help" for the purpose of
"curing" their psychological trauma, first and foremost, Armenians
need:
– To recover their Turkish-occupied homeland in Western Armenia
and Cilicia;
– To be compensated for the immense real and personal property
losses inflicted on them by Turkey;
– To receive blood money for the one and one half million victims;
– To de-Stalinize and re-Armenianize the forcibly Stalinized,
and now-Azeri-occupied Armenian territories in Nakhitchevan; and
Georgian-occupied Javakh (Akhalkalak);
– To secure and consolidate the liberation of the formerly
Stalinized and until recently Azeri-occupied Armenian Republic of
Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabagh);
– To Assist fellow victims Greek Cypriots liberate Northern Cyprus
from Turkish occupation since 1974; I am surprised that a reputable
university like Harvard undermines its own prestige by allowing itself
to be used "in service" for the unholy objectives of denialist Turkey,
a pariah state.