Author: Andranik Taslakhchian

El Mundo, España
Lunes, 23 de Agosto 2004
Guinea juzga a seis armenios, ocho sudafricanos y seis guineanos por
intento de golpe de estado
EFE
MADRID.- El juicio contra los 20 mercenarios acusados de planear un
golpe de estado contra el presidente de Guinea Ecuatorial, Teodoro
Obiang Nguema, ha comenzado este lunes en Malabo. En la vista serán
juzgados, además de seis armenios y ocho sudafricanos, detenidos el
pasado marzo en Malabo, otros seis guineanos, entre ellos el opositor
Severo Moto, en rebeldía.
Según informó la radio estatal de Guinea Ecuatorial, las autoridades
han elegido el palacio de Banapá como sede del proceso por tener
capacidad para unas 1.000 personas, observadores internacionales
incluidos.
Un inusitado despliegue de seguridad ha sido montado en Malabo, cuyas
calles han sido tomadas por los militares con el apoyo de un
helicóptero.
El tribunal está dirigido por el presidente del Tribunal de Apelación
de Malabo, Salvador Ondo Nkumu, mientras que el fiscal general del
Estado, José Oló, interviene como acusador.
Los armenios Samuel Davrinian, Ashot Karapetyan, Samuel Matshkalian,
Razmik Khachatryan, Suren Muradyan y Ashot Simonyan están acusados de
utilizar con fines desestabilizadores un avión Antonov 12, aunque su
defensor asegura que se trata de una acusación “vaga” carente de
fundamento.
Al estrado de Banapá también subirán los sudafricanos Nick du Toit,
presunto cabecilla del grupo; Mark Anthony Schmidt, Marius Gerardes
Bonzaire, Georgio Fernando Patricio Cardoso, Américo Joao Pimentel
Riveiro, Abel Augusto, José Passocas Domingos y George Olimpic Nunez
Allerson.
Los guineanos Antonio Javier Nguema Nchama y Agustín Massoko Abegue
están acusados de ofrecer como tapadera sus actividades ( calificadas
de “terroristas”) en la empresa Triple Options, que supuestamente
trababa con el surafricano Nick du Toit.
A los guineanos Coldo Martínez Nsang, Anacleto Oyono Nchama y Crispín
Ntutumu Owono se les acusa de “cooperación necesaria” con los
mercenarios para que conociesen la ciudad de Malabo, sus alrededores,
y algunas de las personas que supuestamente colaboraron con ellos.
Fuentes opositoras han asegurado que en el sumario ha desaparecido
cualquier referencia al ciudadano alemán Gerard Eugen Merz, muerto en
la prisión de Black Beach, y titular de la empresa en la que
trabajaban los seis armenios.
En el sumario figuran, además de Severo Moto, máximo dirigente del
Partido del Progreso, Elie Calil, Greg Wales, David Hurt y Simon
Mann, este último un conocido “soldado de fortuna” que se encuentra
entre los 64 detenidos en Harare cuando fue interceptado un avión con
el que supuestamente pretendían trasladar a Guinea Ecuatorial al
resto de los presuntos mercenarios el pasado marzo.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Ha’aretz
Aug 4 2004
Armenian art on the walls of Jerusalem

By Irit Rosenblum

A huge mural made of Armenian tiles featuring the sea, animals,
plants, trees and Noah’s ark will be dedicated next week at 14 Koresh
St., in the heart of Jerusalem. The 4-meter by 6-meter (13-foot by
19.5-foot) mural was designed and made using a unique technique by
Miri Balian, who volunteered her talents to the city. The Balian
family is one of the three Armenian ceramic art families –
Karakashian, Ohannessian and Balian – who settled in Jerusalem in
1919 and have been hand-crafting artistic ceramic tiles in Jerusalem
ever since. Tile murals by Balian can also be viewed in the portico
of the president’s house, in the Malha Mall and in Beit Gavriel in
Tzemach, on the shores of Lake Kinneret. Her works have been
displayed at exhibitions in Washington and in the Eretz Yisrael
Museum in Tel Aviv. The mural was installed by the East Jerusalem
Development Company and financed by the Jerusalem municipality and
the Tourism Ministry.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

ArmenPress
Aug 2 2004
ARMENIA CONDEMNS ATTACKS ON CHRISTIAN CHURCHES IN IRAQ
YEREVAN, AUGUST 2, ARMENPRESS: Armenia reacted swiftly to news
reports about terrorist actions targeting Christian Churches in
Baghdad and Mosul. “The president of Armenia is deeply concerned
about the human and material losses which resulted from terrorist
activities aimed at Christian churches in Baghdad and Mosul on August
1. Among them was an Armenian church, as well,” Ashot Kocharian, a
spokesman for president Kocharian, said in response to Armenpress
request to present Armenia’s official position.
The spokesman said the Armenian community of Iraq, with its
millennia-old history, has been and remains an indivisible part of
the Iraqi people, and plays a role in the development and progress of
the country, and together with all of Iraq’s minorities, has always
participated in finding solutions to Iraq’s problems and challenges.
“Armenia firmly condemns terrorism in all its manifestations, and
expresses the hope that Iraq will soon achieve stability and peace,
and that democratic and peaceful norms will be established. This, of
course, is of fundamental significance to Iraq and to the entire
region,” Ashot Kocharian said.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Magazine Claims Reporter Beaten in Moscow
.c The Associated Press
MOSCOW (AP) – An Armenian magazine employee died after being stabbed
and beaten in Moscow, the magazine’s chief said Monday.
The discovery of Pail Peloyan’s body on Saturday came eight days after
the killing of American Paul Klebnikov, editor of Forbes magazine’s
Russian edition, and raised additional concerns about journalists’
safety in Russia.
The magazine for which Peloyan worked was much lower-visibility than
Forbes and covered topics less controversial than Klebnikov’s
reporting on Russia’s often-violent business sphere.
The Russian-language magazine, Armyanskii Pereulok (Armenian Lane),
focused on Armenian historical, cultural and religious issues, editor
Valentin Filoyan said. Peloyan was chief administrator for the
magazine and had written several articles, he said. The magazine’s
last issue appeared at the beginning of 2003.
Asked whether he believed the 37-year-old Peloyan’s death was
connected to the magazine’s work, Filoyan said, “I don’t think so.”
No other motive was known.
Peloyan’s body was found early Saturday on the edge of the expressway
that circles Moscow, near a pedestrian overpass, Russian news reports
said.
Filoyan said money and documents including Peloyan’s passport were
found on the body, an apparent indication that robbery was not the
motive.
Russia was rated by the Committee to Protect Journalists as one of the
world’s 10 most dangerous countries for journalists, with a number of
killings and beatings reported in recent years.
Klebnikov reportedly had been looking into the 1995 killing of a
prominent TV journalist and was interested in doing a series of
articles about journalist murders.
07/19/04 09:45 EDT
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

PRESS RELEASE
Armenian Youth Federation
Western United States
104 N. Belmont St. Suite 206
Glendale, CA 91206
Contact: Vicken Sosikian
Tel: 818.507.1933
Fax: 818.240.3442
E-mail: [email protected]
Web:
AYF to Hold Second Annual Little Armenia Clean Up
Los Angeles – The Armenian Youth Federation Western United States Garo
Madenlian Public Affairs Office announced Thursday that it has began the
planning and organization of the Second Annual Little Armenia Clean Up
scheduled to take place on September 25.
The clean up, which is cosponsored by Council Member Eric Garcetti’s Office,
will begin at 8:30 am with an opening ceremony, including remarks by Council
Member Garcetti. Volunteers for the clean up will work to remove litter and
unwanted weeds from the streets and sidewalks.
The clean up, a project of the AYF Little Armenia Beautification Program,
will include the renewal of the `Welcome to Little Armenia’ banners placed
on various major intersections of Little Armenia.
`It is an honor to the Armenian American community to have an area of the
City Los Angeles named after our homeland,’ said Vicken Sosikian, Chairman
of the AYF Western Region. `Since October of 2000 we have enjoyed this
honor, and feel that we not only need to give back to Little Armenia and its
residents, but also to the city of Los Angeles.’
The AYF counts on the support of the Armenian community to make this
community outreach event a success. Those who are interested in volunteering
for the clean up or contributing to the effort in anyway should email the
AYF at [email protected].
The Armenian Youth Federation strives to serve Armenian American communities
west of the Mississippi through education, athletics, political activism,
cultural activities, and social settings. To learn more about the AYF please
log on to
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Rediff, India
June 28 2004
Topalov in quarters, Dreev ousted
Top seeded Grandmaster Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria stormed his way
into the quarter-finals with back-to-back victories against GM Zdenko
Kozul of Croatia in the World Chess championship in Tripoli, Libya,
on Monday.
Second seed GM Michael Adams of England also made it to the quarters
following his 1.5-0.5 victory over greenhorn Hakaru Nakamura of the
United States.
Rustam Kasmidzhanov of Uzbekistan qualified for the round of eight
with his second straight victory over GM Zoltan Almasi of Hungary.
Also making it to the quarters was GM Vladimir Akopian of Armenia,
who displayed perfect technique against GM Michal Krasenkow of
Poland, winning by a 1.5-0.5 margin.
The lone upset of this round was the ouster of highly regarded GM
Alexei Dreev of Russia at the hands of Cuban Lenier Dominiguez.
Having won the first game with black, Topalov was in command right
through with his white pieces in the second game against Kozul, who
employed the Classical Sicilian to keep himself in with a chance.
Topalov sacrificed a couple of pawns in the middle game to get a
better ending and his queen side pawns eventually had the final say.
Adams had little to do with his white pieces, having won the first
game with black. Nakamura went for the Alekhine defence and was never
really in contention in the 21-move game.
The Englishman went for routine exchanges and when he was enjoying a
better position, Nakamura proposed a draw and immediately signed his
ouster paper.
Rustam Kasmidzhanov, a finalist at the World Cup in Hyderabad and
amongst the 2700 Elo club in 2001, has off late been showing great
sparks of coming back into the elite club.
Playing white against Almasi, the Uzbek needed just a draw and
following some wild play by the Hungarian in the middle game, won an
exchange for little compensation. Almasi resigned after 35 moves
after the queens got traded through little combination.
The star performer of the day was Dominiguez, who outplayed Dreev in
the first set of tiebreak games played under rapid time control of 25
minutes each with a 10 seconds increment.
Drawing the first game, Dominguez unleashed a fine attack in the
second game and won comprehensively to move to the quarters.
Many had believed it to be a good event for Romanian Liviu-Dieter
Nisipeanu, the semifinalist of the World championship at Las Vegas in
1999. Especially so as the other two semifinalists in the fray —
Armenian Vladimir Akopian and Adams — have been going great guns
here and have both qualified for the next stage.
However, it was not to be as Nisipeanu lost the battle of nerves
against Andrei Kharlov, the only Russian left in the fray apart from
third seed Alexander Grishchuk.
After drawing both the games under normal time control, both Kharlov
and Nisipeanu won one game each in the rapid, drew both the blitz
games that followed before the Romanian ran out of gas in the
sudden-death game.
Grishchuk made the grade against veteran Alexander Beliavsky of
Slovenia but only after a close battle that was stretched till the
blitz games. Grishchuk won the first game of blitz and drew the
second after drawing two games in rapid.
Akopian set up his quarterfinal clash with Adams with a fine victory
over Krasenkow, who was outplayed in all departments of the game.
The 1999 finalist, Akopian had beaten Adams in the semifinals
en-route to his defeat against Russian Alexander Khalifman of Russia
in the finals at Las Vegas.
Complete Results, Round 4: Veselin Topalov (Bul) beat Zdenko Kozul
(Cro) 2-0; Teimour Radjabov (Aze) beat Pavel Smirnov (Rus) 1-1, 1-1,
1.5-0.5; Michael Adams (Eng) beat Hikaru Nakamura (Usa) 1.5-0.5;
Alexander Beliavsky (Slo) lost to Alexander Grishchuk (Rus) 1-1, 1-1,
1.5-0.5; Rustam Kasimdzhanov (Uzb) beat Zoltan Almasi (Hun) 2-0;
Vladimir Akopian (Arm) beat Michal Krasenkow (Pol) 1.5-0.5; Lenier
Dominiguez (Cub) beat Alexey Dreev (Rus) 1-1, 1.5-0.5; Andrei Kharlov
(Rus) beat Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu (Rom) 1-1, 1-1, 1-1, 1-0.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Le Télégramme
15 juin 2004
Nécrologie : Jean Gouzoukian
Jean Gouzoukian, compagnon d’Alice Le Roy, est décédé, dimanche
matin, d’un malaise cardiaque.
D’origine Arménienne, mais né en Algérie, le 30 juillet 1929 à
Mostaganem, il était venu à Brennilis en retraite après avoir
travaillé en région parisienne.
Membre actif de plusieurs associations, Jean était très apprécié de
tous pour sa gentillesse et sa serviabilité. Passionné de timbres, il
était aussi membre du club de philatélie de Carhaix. Sa disparition
laissera un grand vide auprès de sa famille et de ses amis.
Ses obsèques seront célébrées cet après-midi, à 14 h 30, en l’église
de Brennilis.
GRAPHIQUE: Photo, Legende: Jean Gouzoukian, était membre actif de
plusieurs associations.