Author: Badalian Vardan

SARCELLES : CENTENAIRE DU GENOCIDE ARMENIEN ET ASSYRO-CHALDEEN

Publie le : 31-03-2015

Info Collectif VAN – – Cent ans ont passe et
la ville de Sarcelles s’apprete a commemorer a partir du 10 avril
2015 le premier genocide du 20e siècle. Celui des Armeniens, des
Assyro-chaldeens, des deux millions de victimes exterminees en 1915 en
Turquie, par les autorites ottomanes. Nota CVAN : Un programme riche
et varie se tiendra dans la ville du depute-maire PS Francois Pupponi
pour mieux comprendre ces evenements trop meconnus de la Première
Guerre mondiale. Ce Centenaire revet une resonance douloureuse alors
que l’organisation Etat islamique, soutenue par la Turquie, sème
actuellement la terreur en Syrie et en Irak, la meme où avaient ete
deportees les victimes du genocide de 1915… Le Collectif VAN vous
propose cette information publiee sur le site de la ville de Sarcelles.

Sarcelles.fr

Madame, Monsieur,

Cent ans ont passe et Sarcelles s’apprete a commemorer le premier
genocide du 20e siècle. Celui des Armeniens, des Assyro-chaldeens,
des deux millions de victimes exterminees en 1915.

Commemorer, c’est se souvenir du destin tragique de ces innocents
assassines, de leur parcours, de leur courage.

Une serie d’evenements, dont vous trouverez le detail dans ces pages,
vise a faire vivre leur memoire, en images, en paroles ou en musique.

Sarcelles a pu, grâce a la mobilisation du tissu associatif et des
diasporas respectives que je veux remercier, proposer une programmation
riche et mettant en avant, l’art et la creativite de ces populations
millenaires d’Asie mineure. C’est donc avec fierte que je vous invite
a vous joindre a l’ensemble de ces manifestations.

Commemorer, c’est aussi honorer la resistance des disparus, c’est
offrir un deuil digne aux familles de descendants. Dans ce sens —
car je suis convaincu que la memoire est plus forte lorsqu’elle ne
se divise pas — une ceremonie unique aura lieu le 25 avril pour les
Armeniens et les Assyro-chaldeens, une première a Sarcelles.

Commemorer, c’est enfin refuser la fatalite. Fatalite d’une
reconnaissance du terme > qui tarde a etre pleinement
et totalement assumee. Fatalite d’une Histoire qui recommence ; sur
la meme terre, celle des premiers hommes de Mesopotamie ; contre les
memes cibles, les Chretiens d’Orient, armeniens ou assyro-chaldeens ;
avec la meme volonte d’exterminer et dans la meme indifference.

Francois Pupponi Depute du Val-d’Oise Maire de Sarcelles

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1915-2015 : cultiver notre devoir de memoire

Cette annee 2015 commemore le centenaire du genocide armenien et
assyro-chaldeen perpetre en 1915 sur le territoire ottoman par les
autorites ottomanes.

Si les massacres de ces minorites avaient commence bien avant 1915,
ils n’avaient pas alors le côte systematique, organise et orchestre
qu’ils prennent a partir d’avril 1915.

Dès le 24 avril 1915 et l’elimination de six cents notables armeniens
a Constantinople sur ordre du gouvernement des jeunes Turcs, la
volonte d’exterminer les Chretiens ne fait plus de doute. C’est le
debut du genocide.

Une tragedie qui durera plus d’un an ; annee où rien ne sera
epargne aux populations chretiennes. Exil, deportation, executions,
au total ce sont presque deux millions de personnes (armeniennes,
assyro-chaldeennes, grecques pontiques) qui periront dans cette
purification ethnique aux seuls motifs de leurs origines et de leur
religion.

Un bilan effroyable qui aneantit deux tiers des Chretiens d’une terre
où ils vivaient depuis deux millenaires.

Le monde a alors les yeux rives sur la Grande Guerre et rares sont
les voix qui s’elèvent pour condamner ce premier genocide du 20e
siècle : c’est dans l’indifference generale que l’entreprise visant
a l’homogeneisation des peuples d’Asie mineure se met en place dans
les deserts de Mesopotamie.

Ce n’est que plus tard, grâce a l’effort toujours plus important des
descendants, que la verite s’imposera partiellement. L’histoire et de
nombreux pays (dont la France) reconnaissent aujourd’hui la realite
du genocide armenien mais l’extermination des Assyro-chaldeens reste
encore meconnue et la Turquie, heritière de l’Empire Ottoman, refuse
toujours d’assumer sa responsabilite.

Les commemorations du centenaire de cette > doivent
servir a obtenir une reconnaissance pleine et entière des evenements
de la part de tous les protagonistes. Elles doivent aussi mettre en
lumière une page de l’histoire souvent, injustement, occultee.

Sarcelles, terre d’asile des Armeniens exiles en 1915 puis des
Assyro-chaldeens dans les annees 80, continue aujourd’hui d’accueillir
des Chretiens d’Orient, chasses d’Irak ou de Syrie. Pour que l’histoire
ne se repète pas, les associations et la municipalite ont mis en place
un parcours fait de representations theâtrales et cinematographiques,
de conferences, d’expositions pour commemorer les cent ans du genocide.

Ces evenements ont pu voir le jour grâce a la documentation riche,
abondante et precise mise a disposition par les familles des victimes.

C’est grâce a elles que tout au long de l’annee 2015, Sarcelles va
cultiver son devoir de memoire.

Programme entier a decouvrir ICI.

Source/Lien : Sarcelles.fr

ICRC VISITS ARMENIAN POW IN AZERBAIJAN

11:45 * 31.03.15

Representatives of the International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC)
mission on Monday visited the Armenian contract serviceman who is
being held as a captive Azerbaijan after crossing into the country,
says a spokesperson.

“[Andranik Grigoryan] has given information about himself and his
family,” Zara Amatuni, Communication Manager at the ICRC Office in
Yerevan, told our correspondent.

Commenting on Grigoryan’s act, Armenia’s Minister of Defense Seyran
Ohanyan earlier recommended searching for motives unrelated to
service. He cited family problems as a possible reason that might have
pushed the serviceman to cross into the adversary’s territory. The
minister ruled out the possibility of kidnapping by Azerbaijani
saboteurs.

Asked whether Grigoryan has made any statement to explain his reasons,
the ICRC spokesperson replied. “We do not normally disclose details
of either conversations with a hostage or any information conveyed
to him or her.”

She also refrained from giving details as to whether Grigoryan looked
beaten or tortured. Amatuni said that information of the kind is
kept confidential.

VETERAN ARMENIAN-TURKISH EDITOR DIES AT 80

Hurriyet Daily News, Turkey
March 30 2015

ISTANBUL

Sarkis Seropyan, the veteran editor of Istanbul-based weekly Agos’
Armenian language pages, has passed away at the age of 80.

Seropyan died on March 28 after succumbing to pancreatic cancer,
news portal T24 reported.

The journalist, who was among the people to establish Agos, will be
laid to rest on March 31 in Istanbul’s Ã…~^iÃ…~_li Armenian Cemetery
following a ceremony at the Surp Vartanants Church in Ã…~^iÃ…~_li’s
Feriköy neighborhood.

Agos announced Seropyan’s death via its website, stressing that he
was the “newspaper’s history, the chief pillar, and our everything.”

Parliament Speaker Cemil Cicek sent weekly Agos’ editor-in-chief
Yetvart Danzikyan a message of condolence, expressing his grief over
the loss.

“I am deeply grieved by the death of Serkis Seropyan, one of the
veteran founders and the Armenian language pages editor of the Agos
newspaper, which is the unique sound of diversity in Turkey,” read
Cicek’s statement.

Seropyan, who was born in 1935, started working after graduating from
middle school, during which he wrote articles to various journals
and newspapers in the Armenian language. He was among the group of
people who founded the Agos newspaper in 1996 following a call by
the late Armenian-Turkish journalist Hrant Dink. Since the paper’s
establishment, Seropyan had been the Armenian language pages editor.

Dink was murdered on Jan. 19, 2007, in broad daylight on a busy street
outside of Agos’ office in Ã…~^iÃ…~_li.

Ogun Samast, Dink’s killer, who was 17 years old when he committed
the crime, is serving a sentence of 22 years and 10 months in a
high-security prison for the shooting.

March/30/2015

LI KEQIANG MEETS WITH PRESIDENT SERZH SARGSYAN OF ARMENIA

MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA

March 26 2015

2015/03/26

In the afternoon of March 26, 2015, Premier Li Keqiang met at the
Great Hall of the People with President Serzh Sargsyan of Armenia,
who came to China to pay a state visit and attend the Boao Forum for
Asia (BFA) Annual Conference 2015.

Li Keqiang said that President Xi Jinping and Your Excellency
President together signed the Joint Statement on Further Developing
and Deepening Friendly Cooperative Relations yesterday, which injected
new impetus into the development of the bilateral relations. China
is willing to work with Armenia to deepen friendly cooperation and
promote common development through mutual respect, equal treatment,
and mutual support.

Li Keqiang pointed that China boasts advanced and surplus capacity in
various fields, and has accumulated rich experience in infrastructure
construction, with equipment being highly cost-effective. China is
willing to conform to the new development plan of your country and
carry out cooperation in such fields as railways, highways, nuclear
power and electric power. In the meanwhile, China is willing to help
Armenia to build production lines of steel and iron, cement, plate
glass and others, and carry out infrastructure construction with
local materials to promote the industrialization process of Armenia,
so as to achieve mutual benefit and win-win results. The Economic and
Trade Cooperation Committee between two countries should play a bigger
role in promoting bilateral economic and trade, people-to-people and
cultural, as well as local exchanges and cooperation.

Serzh Sargsyan said that the two peoples of Armenia and China
have enjoyed long-lasting friendship for generations. Since the
establishment of the diplomatic relationship, the two countries have
witnessed increasingly deepened political mutual trust and constantly
promoted friendly cooperative relations, and have become important
political, economic and trade partners of each other. Armenia is
willing to work with China to deeply explore the potentials for
bilateral economic and trade cooperation, enhance cooperation in
tourism and aviation industry, and expand people-to-people and
cultural exchanges so as to promote common development. Armenia
welcomes Chinese enterprises to invest in Armenia and participate in
construction of infrastructure including highways, nuclear power and
electric power as well as cooperation in mining industry, and looks
forward to conducting capacity cooperation with China, promoting
Armenia’s economic and social development.

GABRIELYAN: ARMENIA CAN SHARE ITS TRADE LIBERALIZATION EXPERIENCE WITH OTHER EURASIAN ECONOMIC UNION MEMBER COUNTRIES

YEREVAN, March 30. /ARKA/. Armenia can share its trade liberalization
experience with other Eurasian Economic Union member countries, Vache
Gabrielyan, a member of the Eurasian Economic Commission’s board,
said Monday at a round-table discussion over the union’s market.

“Taking into account the limitedness of the market and in order
to establish an attractive investment environment, Armenia has in
general adopted a liberal trade regulation approach.” he said. “I
think we can share this experience with our fellow EAEU members and
be useful in terms of common development.”

Gabrielyan said that despite Armenia joined the union just recently,
the country’s business people are involved in Eurasian economic
processes.

“Armenian entrepreneurs’ opinion is very important to us,” he said.

“We hope those issues raised by Armenian entrepreneurs today will be
reflected in the Eurasian Economic Commission’s agenda.”

In his words, the Eurasian Economic Commission has already conducted a
study to find ways for lifting the barriers, obstacles and restrictions
that hinder mutual access to markets.

“Armenia’s government proposes to include Armenia and Kyrgyzstan in
this study,” Gabrielyan said. “The study is important, given Armenia’s
specific state.”

The round table was held to highlight problems in Armenia’s economic
relations with other members of ten Eurasian Economic Union and to
seek a quick and effective adaptation in new economic conditions with
joint efforts. Armenia became a full member of the union on January 2,
2015. —0—–

ARMENIAN STRIKER SHOWS WHY HE WAS LINKED WITH LIVERPOOL

HITC Sport
March 30 2015

by Jack Beresford

Yura Movsisyan was previously rumoured to have caught the eye of
Brendan Rodgers and though an Anfield move failed to materialise,
he still looks sharp.

With Mario Balotelli struggling to score regularly for Liverpool
during a stop-start season at Anfield, Brendan Rodgers must be
wondering where it all went wrong.

One potential starting point may be the day the Reds manager opted
against taking a gamble on Spartak Moscow striker Yura Movsisyan.

Last term the 27-year-old was nothing short of a revelation for the
Russian outfit, scoring 16 goals in 26 games to spark speculation
that he could soon be heading to England.

An Armenia international who actually started his career in Major
League Soccer with the Kansas City Wizards, Movsisyan grew up in Los
Angeles, having emigrated to the US as a child with his family.

After a spell with Real Salt Lake, he headed to Europe with Danish
side Randers, where a return of 12 goals in 30 games caught the eye
of Krasnodar.

In two seasons at the Russian club, Movsisyan scored 32 goals from
57 outings with Spartak eventually coming in for the well-travelled
forward.

Back last summer, Sky Sports were among the first to report that the
striker was attracting interest from England, with the Armenian star
all too happy to court the rumours.

“I’ve heard there may be some interested teams in England and Germany,”
he said at the time.

“If an offer is made for me, I can’t control the outcome. Spartak
know my ambition and all parties need to be satisfied.”

Soon enough, Liverpool emerged as a target with CaughtOffside claiming
that Reds manager Brendan Rodgers was weighing up a bid for the player
that same summer.

Yet no move was forthcoming and with the Reds coming close to signing
Loic Remy and later settling for Balotelli, it appeared the deal was
dead and buried.

But with the Italian failing to impress at Anfield, a change of heart
could yet be on the cards with Movsisyan still in good form for both
club and country.

The 27-year-old was on target in Sunday’s Euro 2016 qualifier with
Albania and though the underdogs ultimately went down 2-1, the one-time
LA resident looked as sharp as ever.

Maybe it’s time for Liverpool to take another look?

Would Yura Movsisyan have done well for Liverpool?

SLUTSKIY – “WE WILL CALL ON THE ENTIRE CLEARHEADED WORLD TO RECOGNIZE AND CONDEMN THE GENOCIDE”

YEREVAN, March 30. /ARKA/.The Russian delegation will call on the
entire clear-headed global community to recognize and condemn the
genocide of Armenian during the genocide centennial commemoration
events, the head of the Russian State Duma commission for CIS affairs
and Eurasian integration Leonid Slutskiy said in Giumry on Sunday,
Novosti-Armenia reported.

A truly representative Russian delegation will arrive in Armenia
headed by president Vladimir Putin to participate in the genocide
commemoration events, Slutskiy said.

The Armenian Genocide was the first genocide of the twentieth century.

According to Armenian and many other historians, up to 1.5 million
Armenians were killed starting in 1915 in a systematic campaign by
the government of Turkey. Turkey has been denying it for decades.

The Armenian genocide was recognized by tens of countries. The first
was Uruguay that did so in 1965. Other nations are Russia, France,
Italy, Germany, Holland, Belgium, Poland, Lithuania, Slovakia, Sweden,
Switzerland, Greece, Cyprus, Lebanon, Canada, Venezuela, Argentina,
42 U.S. states. It was recognized also by the Vatican, the European
Parliament, the World Council of Churches and other international
organizations. -0–

ARMENIAN-CHINESE RELATIONS ROSE TO A NEW LEVEL AFTER ARMENIAN PRESIDENT’S VISIT – EXPERT

18:58 30/03/2015 >> POLITICS

Armenian-Chinese relations rose to a new level after Armenian
President’s recent state visit to China, Oriental Studies expert
Naira Lazarian told reporters on Monday.

In her words, the visit can be called one of the most serious
achievements of Armenian foreign policy over the past years.

The expert recalled that more than a dozen documents aimed at
development and strengthening of bilateral cooperation in several
areas were signed during the visit.

She stressed that taking into consideration the content of the
documents signed during the visit, it can be said that Serzh Sargsyan’s
visit can be crucial not only for Armenia, but also for the region.

Naira Lazarian highlighted the joint declaration on further
development and deepening of relations of friendly cooperation
between Armenia and China which was signed by the Armenian and Chinese
Presidents as a result of their meeting.

She underscored the clause of the declaration which says that “the
parties attach great importance to the international efforts to
prevent crimes against humanity and stand for the unacceptability of
their denial, as well as for their condemnation, and preservation of
historical truth.”

Related: Armenia, China hold high-level talks

LE PRESIDENT DE LA CHAMBRE DES REPRESENTANTS OPPOSE A LA RECONNAISSANCE DU GENOCIDE

Etats Unis 1915-2015

Alors que 39 membres du Congrès americain proposent au vote une
resolution reconnaissant le genocide des Armeniens (RH 154), le
Republicain John Boeher, successeur de Nancy Pelosi (democrate),
president de la Chambre des representants se dit oppose a une telle
reconnaissance.

Il faut dire que le Representant du 8ème district de l’Ohio depuis
1991, sollicite par le President du Parlement turc Cemil Cicek et
ses collaborateurs, vendredi dernier, a pu assurer ce dernier de son
entière collaboration pour faire obstacle a la dite resolution.

Le 24 Avril 2007, le gouverneur de l’Etat de l’Ohio, Ted Strickland,
a reconnu officiellement le genocide des Armeniens, qualifie egalement
de Crime contre l’humanite.

Les militants de l’ANCA (CDCA francais) manifestent devant le Capitol

lundi 30 mars 2015, Jean Eckian (c)armenews.com

UN EX-SOLDAT RISQUE LA PARALYSIE A CAUSE DU MANQUE DE MOYEN DU GOUVERNEMENT

Defense

Un soldat armenien demobilise, qui a ete grièvement blesse il y a
trois ans, risque de rester paralyse pour le reste de sa vie après
que l’armee armenienne a refuse de financer la poursuite a l’etranger
de son traitement coûteux.

Gevorg Yeghiazarian a ete confine au lit depuis que la balle d’un
tireur d’elite azerbaïdjanais a atteint sa colonne vertebrale
en decembre 2011. Il a ete brièvement capable de s’asseoir et de
se deplacer dans un fauteuil roulant en 2012 après avoir subi un
traitement de cinq semaines en Israël, qui a coûte au ministère de
la Defense de l’Armenie 70 000 $.

Citant un manque de fonds, le ministère a par la suite refuse
d’allouer les 56 000 $ necessaires pour la deuxième phase de son
retablissement dans une clinique israelienne. L’Armenie ne possedant
pas les installations medicales sophistiquees necessaires pour un tel
traitement, l’etat de Yeghiazarian s’est deteriore depuis. L’ancien
conscrit est maintenant non seulement confine au lit, mais aussi a
peine capable de parler. Il ne peut respirer et manger que grâce a
des tubes speciaux.

Selon la mère de Gevorg, Naira Galstian, le jeune homme de 23
ans n’a qu’un reve aujourd’hui : se remettre sur pieds. “Qu’ils
l’envoient dans un autre pays”, dit-elle, se referant aux responsables
gouvernementaux et militaires. “Ils veulent que leurs enfants soient
en bonne sante. Moi aussi. Après tout, j’ai envoye un garcon en bonne
sante a l’armee.”

“Ma douleur est si profonde que je ne sais pas si quelqu’un peut me
comprendre”, a declare Galstian.

“Actuellement, le ministère de la Defense ne peut pas se permettre
d’allouer a nouveau une telle somme”, a insiste le porte-parole du
ministère, Artsrun Hovannisian. “Ils ont fait appel a nous et nous
les avons aides autant que nous pouvions. Malheureusement, il n’y a
rien que nous puissions faire de plus aujourd’hui “.

lundi 30 mars 2015, Claire (c)armenews.com