Clovis West Genocide Essay Winner Invited To N.Y.

CLOVIS WEST GENOCIDE ESSAY WINNER INVITED TO N.Y.

Clovis Independent
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April 26 2010

Alex Tavlian, a senior at Clovis West High School and president of the
school’s Armenian Club, will attend the 95th anniversary commemoration
of the Armenian genocide in New York on Sunday.

He is one of three winners of a national essay contest sponsored by
the Knights & Daughters of Vartan and Facing History and Ourselves,
and will be recognized at the event.

Tavlian said he wrote his essay on the importance of recognizing the
Armenian genocide. "I discussed how most nations will not intervene
in international struggles. Usually it has to do with other interests
like oil and economic gain."

He said he is excited to learn what scholars have to say about the
annihilation.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

http://clovisindependent.com/2010/04/2

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