Charles Aznavour calls for help for migrants

Charles Aznavour called on Tuesday to provide refuge to migrants arriving in France, defending the idea expressed in the spring to repopulate the villages with these newcomers, AFP reports.

“It troubles me a lot, it’s very hard to see those people wandering around with their children,” said Aznavour, 91, who was born in Paris in 1924 to Armenian parents.

“There is something I’ve never known, but I think my parents had to live this life,” he added.

“We need to find a way to provide for their future existence,” he said.

“I am very determined on that, it must be done!” Aznavour concluded.

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“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