Open Letter from Hirair Hovnanian to Gerry Cafesjian

Open Letter from Hirair Hovnanian to Gerry Cafesjian

Sat, May 28 2011

By: Contributor

Gerry:

As I look back to the years wasted by the multiple lawsuits that you
initiated against the Armenian Genocide Museum and Memorial (AGMM) and
the Armenian Assembly, I note that today you are at the same exact
point you were in 2006 when you were in control of the project. At
that time, the other AGMM Board Members acquiesced to your plan with
our votes.

The Armenian Genocide Museum building in DC.
I chose to write to you in this open forum only after being silent
throughout this entire trial, even though you used your media sources
to constantly spread false information and mean spirited articles
about me during the trial.

As I have said many times, the motivation for my involvement with the
project is my belief that building a Genocide museum in our nation’s
capital is a noble endeavor for the Armenian people.

Now that you have fought so hard to have all the properties and thus
absolute control over the project, it is my hope that you are truly
committed to dedicating these properties to the building of an
Armenian Genocide museum, as you had promised the Judge and the
Armenian people. It is my hope that this project will not suffer the
same fate as did the grand vision you had for your art museum in
Yerevan which remains to this day unrealized, and that you are even
more motivated to complete the Genocide museum on the grand $200
million scale that you have so often spoken about.

Although you were unwilling to guarantee during litigation that these
properties will be used solely for a museum, you have an obligation to
the Armenian people to build this Genocide museum in accordance with
the vision initially espoused and without any conditions. If you had
been willing to guarantee this, I may have been able to convince all
interested parties to agree not to file an appeal.

Sincerely,
Hirair Hovnanian

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress