Author: Emil Lazarian

ARMENIAN ARMED FORCES VIOLATE CEASE-FIRE IN GAZAKH FRONT
Azeri Press Agency, Azerbaijan
April 24, 2006
Armenian side keeps on breaking the cease-fire. Azerbaijan’s Defense
Ministry informed APA that the companies of the Armenian armed forces
from their positions in 0.8 km south of Mazam village of Azerbaijan’s
region of Gazakh fired on the opposite positions of the Azerbaijani
armed forces from 20.25 till 20.30 on 23 April.
The enemy forces from their positions in Vozkevan and Shavarshavan
villages of Noyemberyan region, Armenia, again fired on the opposite
positions of Azerbaijani forces and Gushchu Ayrim village from 22.30
till 22.45. Armenian forces from their positions located in the
north-east of Aznakar mountain, Noyemberyan, fired on the positions
of the Azerbaijani forces in Gushchu Ayrim, Gazakh, with submachine
and machine guns from 23.35 till 23.45.
The enemy was silenced by response fire. No casualties were
reported.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

ARMENIAN GENOCIDE DEBATE CONTINUES
By: Matthew Watkins
Texas A&M The Battalion, TX
April 24, 2006
Adan Peña, Robert Saucedo, Wade Barker – THE BATTALION. Susan Gordone
discusses photos of her relatives who experienced the Armenian genocide
that started in 1915.
Very few would doubt that Armenian-American Susan Gordone’s family
has suffered. However, what to call the cause of their suffering is
a ninety year-old debate.
In 1913, Gordone’s grandmother, Rose, was asked by her pregnant
mother to help deliver her younger sister. At the time, her whole
family lived in Turkey.
“Rose was eight years old. The baby, with its afterbirth, slipped
through her hands and died. Three days later, her mother died,” said
Gordone, who lives in College Station and is a former worker for the
Texas A&M theater arts and English departments. “A week later when
her father returned, he told the remaining members of the family that
they must leave immediately, pack into a wagon or be killed.”
Seven years after the death of her mother and sister, Rose traveled
to America to escape the danger in her home country.
“But in those seven years, she, along with my Uncle John and Aunt
Tervanda, would persevere in the death caravans, watching other family
members die along the way before arriving in Ellis Island in 1920,”
Gordone said.
On Monday, Gordone, along with the Armenian community, will observe
the 91st anniversary of the Armenian genocide, which some estimates
indicate took the lives of as many as 1.5 million Armenians. However,
others, including the Turkish Government, contend that the Armenian
genocide never happened.
The events of the Armenian genocide occurred when the Young Turks, who
had power over Turkey at the time, relocated or deported the country’s
Armenian population during World War I. Most of the Armenians were
relocated on foot causing many to die of exhaustion or starvation. Most
Armenians and many scholars contend that the deaths were genocide.
The Turkish government acknowledges the deaths of hundreds of thousands
of Armenians between 1915 and 1917, but says the deaths were the
result of a civil war and starvation that affected all members of
the Turkish population.
The debate about the events has become so heated that it has sometimes
prevented Armenians and Turks from becoming friends at A&M, said Yaman
Evrenoglu, a Turkish graduate student in electrical engineering. He
said he remembers at least five times when a personal friendship
between an Armenian and Turk was halted when the pair’s nationality
was revealed.
The most recent shake up in the controversy was an hour-long
documentary, “The Armenian Genocide,” which aired on PBS and told
the story of the genocide. The film featured many scholars, some
of whom were Turkish, telling the story of death marches in which
Armenians were pushed off cliffs, drowned, starved and exhausted. A
25-minute panel discussion about the Turkish involvement in these
deaths followed the documentary.
“(The documentary) provides a blatantly one-sided perspective of a
tragic and unresolved period of world history,” Turkish ambassador
to the United States Nabi ?ensoy said in a statement after the
documentary’s airing. “Its premise is rejected not only by my
government, but also by many eminent scholars who have studied the
period in question.”
Armenians and the myriad of scholars who contend that the genocide
is a historical fact said the panel legitimized a view that hatefully
refused to acknowledge the genocide.
“Turkish denials of the genocide are part of a state-sponsored policy
of propaganda that serves only the interests of Turkey. The historical
truth of the Armenian genocide has been established beyond reasonable
doubt by abundant documentary and eye-witness evidence from thousands
of sources,” Vako Nicolian said in an online petition he authored
and sent the vice president of programming at PBS.
As of Sunday, the petition has gathered 22,195 signees.
Gordone said she had no problem with the airing of the panel
discussion, which featured two scholars on each side of the issue,
because it simply revealed the lack of depth to the Turkish
government’s claims.
“If we are going to pretend that a stateless Christian minority
population, unarmed, is somehow in a capacity to kill people in an
aggressive way that is tantamount to war, or civil war, we’re living
in the realm of the absurd,” said Peter Balakian, a professor at
Colgate University in the debate.
Evrenosoglu said he was more upset about the debate than the
documentary.
“The documentary was much more moderate compared to ones that I
have witnessed,” he said. “It was too biased for us of course, but
at least they presented the Turkish government and the Turkish point
of view. The debate was a complete disaster because the theme of the
debate was not about discussion of the Armenian genocide but why the
Turkish government is rejecting it.”
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FAREWELL AMID CRY FOR JUSTICE
Calcutta Telegraph, India
April 24, 2006
A crowd looks on as the hearse with Prashant’s body heads for the
crematorium. A Telegraph picture Siliguri, April 23: The body of
Prashant Anchali, a medical student, arrived here today, three days
after his mysterious death in Armenia.
Two senior students – including one from Siliguri – of Yerevan State
University accompanied the body on its last journey. The body had
been embalmed and dressed in a spotless black suit.
Prashant died on April 20 after a fall from the sixth floor of a
building at the university. Indian embassy officials in Armenia had
said the third-year student had committed suicide.
Prashant’s family is, however, not ready to accept this. They suspect
he was murdered.
A crowd had gathered at the Anchali home soon after the coffin arrived
at 12.15 pm. An hour or so later, it was taken for cremation.
“When everything was over, the truth finally sank in and I realised
with a heavy heart that my younger brother was no more,” said a
grieving Pankaj, Prashant’s elder brother, in the evening. Family
members said a post-mortem had been conducted in Armenia. But the
report is yet to come.
The Anchalis have already written to the President, the Prime Minister
and the Lok Sabha Speaker to help them find out what exactly had
happened in Armenia.
Pankaj said the family has decided to request the university through
the embassy to investigate into the matter. “We have also planned to
go to the human rights commission for justice,” he said.
Puja Goyel, one of the two students and a resident of Siliguri, who
had accompanied the body, told The Telegraph that though she was in
class when the incident occurred, she firmly believed that Prashant
had not committed suicide. “He wasn’t that kind of person. I spoke
to him the previous evening and he was quite normal. Most probably,
it was an accident. However, the Armenian police have started an
investigation and the truth would hopefully come to light soon.”
According to Puja, except for the dean of the university, Anna
Sargsayn, all others including the non-Indian students, were very
cooperative. “The students lodged a complaint against the dean and
she has been suspended,” the fourth-year student said.
Abhishek of Patna, the other student who had accompanied the body
from Armenia, said: “Prashant was a nice and kind-hearted fellow and
also a brilliant chap. He was quite popular among the students and
also liked by the teachers. The vice-president of Armenia was present
during his farewell from the university,” he added.
Abhishek too was not ready to accept that Prashant had committed
suicide.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

LITHUANIAN PRESIDENT TO PAY OFFICIAL VISIT TO ARMENIA
Baltic News Service
April 24, 2006 Monday 3:06 PM EET
Vilnius
Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus is to leave for a two-day official
visit to Armenia on Tuesday.
During the visit, Adamkus is scheduled to meet with Armenian President
Robert Kocharian, Prime Minister Andranik Margarian.
According to a press release from the Lithuanian president’s press
service, the meetings are planned to focus on prospects of bilateral
relations, regional cooperation, Armenia’s reforms and determination
to achieve its Euro-Atlantic goals.
A bilateral agreement on the promotion of investments and mutual
protection will also be signed during the visit.
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BODY OF INDIAN STUDENT ARRIVES FROM ARMENIA
The Statesman (India)
April 24, 2006 Monday
Statesman News Service SILIGURI, April 23: Shell-shocked family
members received the body of Prashant Anchalia, who died on Thursday
after apparently falling from the sixth floor of the Yerevan State
Medical Universitys hostel in Armenia, at Bagdogra airport around
1.30 pm today. A pall of gloom descended on the town as Prashants
body reached his residence at Church Road here from Bagdogra airport.
A large number of people had gathered outside the residence of
the Anchalias to bid adieu to Prashant, whom they used to know as
a brilliant student, who he died in mysterious circumstances in
Armenia. Puja Goel, who too hails from Siliguri and studies at YSMU
in Armenia, and Abhishek, Prashants friend, accompanied the body as
it reached Siliguri from Armenia, via New Delhi.
The duo was so shocked with the death of their friend that they could
not even speak to the media. Later in the evening, they narrated
the entire incident, and the lackadaisical attitude of the YSMU
authorities, to the victims family members. The grief-stricken family
members of Prashant, after hearing the duo, alleged that Prashant was
murdered. We demand a high-level inquiry into the circumstances that
led to Prashants death, Mr Pankaj Anchalia, the victims elder brother,
said. Puja and Abhishek, eyewitnesses of the incident, alleged that
they wanted to give their friend first aid but policemen and the
medical department dean of YSMU, Ms Anna Sargsayn, didnt allow them,
saying that they must wait for an ambulance.
The ambulance arrived in 50 minutes without any doctor, the necessary
medicine and oxygen. The Indian students approached the YSMUs newly
appointed rector, Mr Gohar Kjalyan, but the latter insulted them,
instead of offering help. Mr Pankaj Anchalia said what they heard from
Puja and Abhishek was unfortunate. Either the CBI or the Interpol
should probe the incident, he demanded. Mr Anchalia also lashed
out at the Prime Ministers Office for not responding to their fax
message. The Government of India should have helped us bring the
body from Armenia. But they did not. Had the Lok Sabha Speaker, Mr
Somnath Chatterjee, not intervened, the body would not have reached
Siliguri today, he said. Mr Somnath Chatterjee had contacted the
Indian amabassador in Armenia, Mrs Reena Pandey, and instructed her
to extend all possible help to us. He also sent his condolences to us,
Mr Anchalia added.
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APRèS LES PROFANATIONS, L’INAUGURATION
par Emilie Rive
L’Humanite, France
24 avril 2006
Histoire . Le memorial dedie aux victimes du genocide armenien et
de tous les genocides et autres crimes contre l’humanite doit etre
inaugure cet après-midi a Lyon.
Un million cinq cent mille morts. Tel est le bilan de l’extermination
des Armeniens par Ataturk entre 1915 et 1917. Ce fut le premier
genocide du XXe siècle, reconnu, en France, par la loi du 29 janvier
2001 et dont le 91e anniversaire doit etre celebre ce 24 avril. Le
contentieux entre Armeniens et Turcs reste très lourd, puisque
le gouvernement d’Ankara ne reconnaît que trois cent a cinq cent
mille morts pour cette periode et refuse toujours categoriquement
la qualification de genocide. Condition pourtant essentielle afin
de pouvoir mettre le pied, comme le desire la Turquie, dans l’Union
europeenne.
Un enjeu local C’est dans ce contexte que le maire de Lyon,
le socialiste Gerard Collomb, et la communaute armenienne ont
decide l’edification d’un memorial dedie, non seulement aux
victimes armeniennes, mais a celles de tous les genocides, en
plein centre-ville, sur la place Antonin-Poncet qui jouxte la place
Bellecour. Memorial qui doit etre inaugure cet après-midi a 16 h 30,
par le maire de Lyon et le president de l’association du memorial
lyonnais des victimes du genocide armenien, Jules Mardirossian.
Mais tout ne s’est pas passe aussi simplement que prevu.
Curieusement, ce n’est pas l’extreme droite turque qui est montee la
première au creneau, mais les riverains, epaules par Marie-Chantal
Debazeille, conseillère municipale UMP et ancien maire d’un autre
arrondissement de la ville. L’histoire de Lyon n’aurait rien a voir
avec l’histoire armenienne, le monument deparerait dans un site
classe au patrimoine mondial de l’UNESCO… Tous les arguments ont
ete utilises, y compris les recours juridiques dont certains sont
encore en cours, pour faire de ce memorial un sujet de polemique
electorale au service du candidat UMP a la mairie de Lyon, l’actuel
ministre des Transports, Dominique Perben.
Deja profane L’extreme droite turque a pris le relais avec une
manifestation le 18 mars, curieusement autorisee par le prefet du
Rhône, et soutenue, sans ambiguïte, par le consul de Turquie. Il y a eu
egalement des profanations, le week-end dernier, dont les inscriptions
proclamaient, en francais et en turc, que le genocide n’existait pas.
Toutes actions qui ont souleve des protestations de la communaute
armenienne, des elus socialistes et communistes et, pour la dernière
en date, du ministre de l’Interieur, Nicolas Sarkozy. Guy Fischer,
vice-president communiste du Senat, et Maurice Charrier, maire de
Vaulx-en-Velin, ont, a cette occasion, precise que leur presence a
l’inauguration serait aussi une condamnation de ces profanations.
Le 18 mai prochain, le groupe parlementaire socialiste va proposer
de completer la loi du 29 janvier 2001, par un texte permettant de
sanctionner la negation du genocide armenien. La proposition emane
des deputes socialistes des Bouches-du-Rhône. Un autre memorial
est, en effet, inaugure aujourd’hui a Marseille, avec le prefet de
region, les presidents socialistes du conseil regional et du conseil
general, le maire de Marseille, Jean-Claude Gaudin, et le president
de l’Assemblee nationale d’Armenie.
Lire aussi en p. 18 le point de vue commun de deux communistes,
l’un d’origine turque, l’autre d’origine armenienne, sur ce genocide.
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COMMEMORATION. LE GENOCIDE ARMENIEN INSCRIT AU COEUR DE LYON
par TOSSERI Benevent
La Croix , France
24 avril 2006
Malgre l’hostilite de la communaute turque et des riverains, le
memorial du genocide doit etre inaugure aujourd’hui. Lyon (Rhône),
de notre correspondant.
Sous une première couche de dissolvant se detachaient encore en
fin de semaine dernière, sur les lames de pierre blanche dressees
place Antonin-Poncet, ces mots traces au feutre: “Il n’y a pas eu de
genocide.” S’il n’en paraîtra rien aujourd’hui, alors que doit etre
inaugure le memorial du genocide armenien, la plaie reste a vif. “La
memoire du genocide a ete effacee, elle est aujourd’hui attaquee,
non pas par des illumines, mais par un Etat, qui a les moyens de faire
peur a ceux qui manquent de courage et de determination”, pointe Hilda
Tchoboian, directrice de la Maison de la culture armenienne de Decines,
commune de l’est lyonnais où fut erige le premier memorial de ce type
en France, en 1972.
Marseille, seconde ville a accueillir ce lundi un memorial, fut victime
de pressions diplomatiques a la fin des annees soixante. Une simple
stèle, posee loin des regards dans l’enceinte de l’eglise armenienne
du Prado, fut alors substituee a un monument. Trente ans après,
alors que la France a reconnu le genocide armenien par la loi du 29
janvier 2001, les pressions exercees par le consulat turc, relayees
par une manifestation marquee par des slogans negationnistes (lire La
Croix du 22 mars), ne seront pas venues a bout du projet lyonnais. Pas
plus que les quatre recours deposes devant le tribunal administratif
par une association de riverains favorables a un emplacement plus
discret. Le voeu de la communaute armenienne, interpeller le plus de
monde possible sur la realite du genocide, aura ete respecte.
C’est donc entre la place Bellecour et les berges du Rhône, dans
un lieu qui invite plus a la reflexion qu’au recueillement, qu’ont
ete dressees trente-six feuilles de pierre hautes de trois mètres,
sur trois rangees, dans un ordre apparemment chaotique suggerant la
multitude des victimes. La disposition de ces pierres correspond
a une mesure de la messe du compositeur armenien Komitas, une
composition silencieuse que ne percevront pas les badauds. “C’est
un element caracteristique de ce qui fait le genocide armenien,
explique l’architecte du monument, Leonardo Basmadyian, Argentin
d’origine armenienne. Ce compositeur a survecu au genocide avec une
incapacite a la sensibilite.”
Des pierres brutes incrustees en haut des stèles, provenant d’Armenie
pour la plupart, rappellent l’entre-deux dans lequel flotte la memoire
du genocide armenien. Deux ont ete rapportees des villes syriennes
de Deir-es-Zor et d’Alep, principaux lieux du supplice du peuple
armenien. Une autre provient de l’île senegalaise deGoree, lieu de
memoire de la traite des Noirs. D’autres, d’Israël ou du Cambodge,
devraient les rejoindre. C’est le sens des plaques commemoratives “a
la memoire des 1 500 000 Armeniens victimes du premier genocide du XXe
siècle” et “de tous les genocides et crimes contre l’humanite”. Elles
ne seront posees que quelques heures avant la ceremonie pour prevenir
toute nouvelle degradation. Pour Mgr Norvan Zakarian, eveque armenien
de Lyon, le memorial est une manière de “consolation, qui permet de
ne pas laisser les victimes seules face au genocide”. Dans l’espoir
qu’il conduise a la “reconciliation”.
BENEVENT TOSSERI
Le cardinal Barbarin soutient les Armeniens
À la veille de l’inauguration du memorial lyonnais, le cardinal
Philippe Barbarin rappelle, dans un communique, que ce genocide
perpetre par les Turcs en 1915 est “reconnu en France par la loi de
2001”. L’archeveque de Lyon fait part de son “amitie fraternelle” et
toute sa “compassion a la communaute armenienne qui continue d’etre
l’objet d’une haine revoltante”. Il demande aussi de proteger la
necropole chretienne de Djoulfa (dans le Nakhitchevan, en Azerbaïdjan),
profanee en decembre dernier.
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GENOCIDE ARMENIEN: 2000 PERSONNES A L’INAUGURATION D’UN MEMORIAL A MARSEILLE
Agence France Presse
24 avril 2006 lundi 11:52 AM GMT
Près de 2.000 personnes ont assiste a l’inauguration d’un memorial
du genocide armenien, lundi a Marseille, ville qui a la plus forte
communaute armenienne en France avec 80.000 personnes.
La ceremonie s’est deroulee en presence du president de l’Assemblee
nationale de la Republique d’Armenie, Arthur Baghdassarian, qui
a devoile avec les personnalites politiques locales le monument,
entièrement finance par des fonds publics (Etat et collectivites). Il
est une replique a plus petite echelle de celui d’Erevan et presente
“douze pierres disposees en cercle qui symbolisent les douze provinces
spoliees par la Turquie”.
“A la memoire des 1.500.000 Armeniens victimes du 1er genocide du XXe
siècle perpetre par le gouvernement turc de 1915” est l’inscription
gravee sur la stèle en francais et en armenien.
Le depute PS des Bouches-du-Rhône Christophe Masse a indique qu’il
serait le rapporteur d’une proposition de loi sanctionnant la negation
du genocide armenien lors de la seance d’initiative parlementaire le
18 mai.
“La manifestation du 18 mars a Lyon (où avaient ete cries des slogans
negationnistes lors d’une manifestation pro-turque, ndlr) montre la
necessite d’une telle loi”, a affirme Michel Vauzelle, president PS
de la region PACA.
De son côte, Jean-Claude Gaudin, le senateur-maire de Marseille, a
rappele son hostilite a l’entree de la Turquie dans l’Union europeenne:
“lorsque j’etais prof d’histoire geographie, j’ai enseigne pendant
15 ans a mes elèves que la Turquie est en Asie mineure, elle n’est
pas en Europe et nous n’en voulons pas”.
Une manifestation de la communaute armenienne est prevue a 16H00
a Marseille, elle passera devant le consulat turc pour y deposer
une motion.
Les Armeniens affirment que jusqu’a 1,5 million des leurs ont peri
dans un genocide orchestre par l’empire ottoman (1915-1917). Ankara
soutient que 300.000 Armeniens et au moins autant de Turcs ont ete
tues au cours de troubles suscites par des soulèvements d’Armeniens et
leur ralliement aux armees russes en guerre contre l’empire ottoman,
et lors des deportations qui ont suivi.
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ARMENIANS AROUND THE WORLD MARK 91ST ANNIVERSARY OF THE GENOCIDE
Armenpress
Apr 24 2006
YEREVAN, APRIL 24, ARMENPRESS: Hundreds of thousands of Armenians from
Armenia proper and its vast Diaspora went today uphill to the Genocide
Memorial in Yerevan to remember 1.5 million of their ancestors killed
brutally at the orders of the government of Turkey between 1915-1923.
President Robert Kocharian, Prime Minister Andranik Margarian,
Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II and other top government
officials and senior clergy were the first today to remember the
victims by visiting the Memorial and laying flours to it. The
nationwide minute of silence will be observed at 7 p.m. local time.
On Saturday 22 April, around a thousand Armenians living in the UK
marched from Marble Arch to the Cenotaph in Westminster where a wreath
was laid to draw attention to their demands for the recognition of
the Turkish genocide of 1915-23. The march was one of a number of
events this year organized by the Campaign for the Recognition of
the Armenian Genocide, CRAG, together with other Armenian community
groups. Among those leading the march was Bishop Nathan Hovhanesian,
Primate of the Armenian Church of Great Britain.
Various motions in the British parliament have called upon the
government to take some action. The most recent, sponsored by Stephen
Pound MP, “calls upon the UK and Turkish governments publicly and
officially to recognize the Assyrian and Armenian genocide of 1915”
and for the “UK Government to call on the European Union to make
official Turkish recognition … one of the pre-conditions for
Turkey’s membership of the EU.” So far this has only attracted 38
signatures – only one from a Conservative. Hundreds of Armenians
of Sweden and Swedes gathered on Saturday for commemoration of the
Genocide victims. The commemoration event was organized by Armenian
organizations of Sweden and the Union of Churches.
Klas-Joran Karlson, a professor of Lund University, spoke about
the history of Armenians in the last century with a focus on the
united international efforts for recognition and condemnation of the
Armenian genocide. Ulla Hoffmann, a member of the Swedish parliament,
who paid numerous visits to Armenia, urged European nations to give
their support to Armenia and press for Turkey’s acknowledgment of
the Genocide.
The Nor Seround (New Generation) Armenian organization in Tbilisi,
the capital of neighboring Georgia, and the Armenian Center for
Cooperation of Georgia marched today through the capital’s streets
to the Turkish embassy demanding that Ankara recognizes the Genocide.
A liturgy was also served at Saint Gregory Armenian Church in
Tbilisi in memory of the victims. In the evening the church is
to host a concert of holy music and another march from the church
will be held towards the Armenian-populated Havlabar quarter for a
candle-lit ceremony.
Also on Sunday evening a liturgy was served at the Saint Sarkis
Armenian Church in Tehran with young Armenians gathering around
a memorial to the Genocide to pay homage to its victims. A bigger
ceremony is expected today evening in the Ararat athletic center
in Tehran. Local Iranian newspapers and news agencies have posted
extensive stories and reports about the Armenian genocide.
Extensive events to commemorate the 91st anniversary of the Armenian
genocide began Saturday in California, USA, that hosts the biggest
Armenian community worldwide, after Russia, with a flag-raising
ceremony in Fresno. Commemorations also include church and cemetery
services, vigils and a poetry reading.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

ARMENIAN GENOCIDE: UKRAINE SHARES PAIN OF ARMENIAN PEOPLE
PanARMENIAN.Net
24.04.2006 23:48 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ “We share the pain of the Armenian people. This day
reminds us that we must derive lessons from the dark pages of the
history,” Ukrainian Ambassador to Armenia Alexander Bozhko stated
in Tsitsernakaberd today. “The tragedy of the Armenian people was
followed by fascist concentration camps and then hunger in Ukraine
that claimed the lives of 5 million people. One should not forget
Stalin’s repressions, when many representatives of Armenian, Russian
and Ukrainian intelligentsia died,” Bozhko said.