Author: Kanayan Tamar

The Local. Italy
April 11 2015

Pope on tightrope with Armenian mass

Pope Francis will mark the 100th anniversary of the mass killings of
Armenians with a special ceremony on Sunday. But he risks ruffling
feathers regarding his use, or non-use, of the word “genocide”.

The 78-year old is walking a diplomatic tightrope, pressured to use
the term publicly to describe the Ottoman Turk murders, but wary of
alienating a potentially key ally in the fight against radical Islam.

While many historians describe the cull as the 20th century’s first
genocide, the accusation is hotly denied by Turkey.

Armenians say up to 1.5 million of their kin were killed between 1915
and 1917 as the Ottoman Empire was falling apart, and have long sought
to win international recognition of the massacres as genocide.

But Turkey rejects the claims, arguing that 300,000 to 500,000
Armenians and as many Turks died in civil strife when Armenians rose
up against their Ottoman rulers and sided with invading Russian
troops.

Francis and Armenian patriarch Nerses Bedros XIX Tarmouni will
celebrate a mass in Saint Peter’s Basilica, which will include
elements of the Armenian Catholic rite and be attended by the
country’s president Serzh Sargsyan.

The Vatican is holding the mass in time for those in attendance to
return home for the official April 24 commemoration.

Using the word would not be a papal first: John Paul II used it in a
joint statement signed with the Armenian patriarch in 2000, which said
“the Armenian genocide, which began the century, was a prologue to
horrors that would follow”.

But it would be the first time the killings have been described as
such during a mass in Saint Peter’s Basilica.

‘Annihilation of their brothers’

Before becoming pope, Jorge Bergoglio used the word several times in
events marking the mass murders, calling on Turkey to recognise the
killings as such, according to religious news agency I.Media.

As pope Francis is said to only have used it in at one private
audience in 2013 — but even that sparked an outraged reaction from
Turkey.

During a meeting with a visiting Armenian delegation this week the
pontiff deplored those “who were capable of systematically planning
the annihilation of their brothers” — but stopped short of using the
word genocide.

He called for “concrete gestures of peace and reconciliation between
two nations that are still unable to come to a reasonable consensus on
this sad event,” saying both sides should be driven by the “love of
truth and justice”.

In 2014, Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, then premier, offered
condolences for the mass killings for the first time, but the country
still blames unrest and famine for many of the deaths.

Over 20 nations, including Italy, France and Russia, recognise the
killings as genocide.

Religious observers say Francis, who stressed the importance of
remembering “the martyrdom and persecution” of the Armenians, may make
parallels in his homily to the rise in the persecution of Christians
around the world.

Those murdered a century ago were mainly Christian and although the
killings were not driven by religious motives, the pontiff has already
drawn comparisons with modern Christians refugees fleeing Islamic
militants.

Noticias press. España
11 abril 2015

15 Abr 2015 12:30 : Conferencia: “Un siglo del Genocidio Armenio” por
Avet Adonts (embajador de Armenia en España) y Mario Nalpatian
(Consejo Nacional Armenio Mundial)

El Departamento de Relaciones Internacionales de la Facultad de CC.
Hum. y Soc. organiza la conferencia “Un siglo del Genocidio Armenio”
impartida por Avet Adonts (embajador de Armenia en España) y Mario
Nalpatian (Consejo Nacional Armenio Mundial).

El acto tendrá lugar miércoles 15 a las 12:30 en el Aula 105 de la
Universidad Pontificia Comillas (c/Alberto Aguilera, 23).

Journal of Turkish Weekly
April 11 2015

Turkey embarks on restoration efforts of Armenian churches

11 April 2015

Ankara has embarked on a series of restoration projects on Armenian
churches in Turkey, amid criticism that the country’s remaining
Armenian cultural and historical heritage not destroyed during World
War I has been left to ruin.

The restorations are part of the government’s bid to show that it is
improving the rights of Turkey’s Armenian community. For some
observers, the past year’s intensified restoration efforts of about a
dozen churches throughout the country are no doubt related to the
upcoming 100th commemoration of the World War I killings of Armenians
in the Ottoman Empire.

The government’s efforts to reconcile with Turkey’s small Armenian
community dates back a few years, with the reopening of the Akdamar
(Akhtamar) Church near the southeastern city of Van. The 10th-century
Church of the Holy Cross on Akhtamar Island in Lake Van was reopened
in 2007 as a museum.

Ankara spent 2 million Turkish Liras on extensive restorations of the
church, and in 2010 a religious ceremony was held there for the first
time in 95 years.

In addition, the word `Armenian’ could not be found anywhere on the
church’s original information signboard, but it was renewed last year
in order to emphasize that the church was a part of Armenian heritage
in Anatolia.

Similar changes are expected to be made during the renewal of other
signboards where `Armenian’ has been omitted.

Today, the Armenian community in Turkey, which numbers around 70,000,
is almost entirely concentrated in Istanbul.

In a historic first, the Turkish government last year offered
condolences for the mass killings of Armenians in 1915, which then
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip ErdoÄ?an said had `inhumane consequences,’
expressing hope that those who had died were now at peace.

11 April 2015

DECISION TO TRY MURDER CASE IN RUSSIAN COURT IS KREMLIN’S LATEST OUTRAGE AGAINST ARMENIANS

Kyiv Post, Ukraine
April 10 2015

April 10, 2015, 7:02 p.m. | Op-ed — by Armine Sahakyan

Armine Sahakyan

Armine Sahakyan is a human rights activist based in Armenia.

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Associated Press: Intelligence official warns of Islamic State’s
influence in Russia

Russian authorities have decreed that a soldier arrested in the murders
of all seven members of an Armenian family will be tried in a Russian
military court, not in an Armenian court.

The dictate is a slap in the face to the Armenian people.

Thousands of us had demonstrated after the murders in mid-January to
demand that 19-year-old Valeri Permyakov be tried in Armenia. Russian
officials rubbed salt in the wound by declaring that the offense
Permyakov is accused of is a “military crime.”

It is nothing of the sort, many Armenians contend.

The murders were committed off Russia’s military base at Gyumri,
where Permyakov was stationed, and had nothing to do with any military
matter. Russia’s defiance of Armenian popular will in refusing to
hand Permyakov over for trial in Armenia has prompted many of us to
contend that our government’s kowtowing to this powerful neighbor
has gone too far.

One thing the skeptics have asked is why the government handed
Permyakov over to Russia in the first place. Armenian border guards
arrested him the day after the murders as he was trying to slip across
the border into Turkey.

Rather than surrender the soldier to Armenian police, the border
guards gave him to Russian authorities. He is now in confinement on
the base at Gyumri, where Russian authorities said he will be tried.

Critics of Permyakov’s handover to the Russians want to know who in
the Armenian government authorized it. They also fault the government
for not admitting it made a mistake and demanding that the soldier
be returned to Armenian jurisdiction.

Instead, the critics contend, it has tiptoed around the issue of where
Permyakov would be tried out of fear of angering the Kremlin. Moscow
has promised that Permyakov, one of 3,000 soldiers stationed at its
northern Armenian base, will face the full measure of justice.

The solider is accused of the off-base killing of a husband and wife,
their two toddlers — a girl 2 and a boy 6 months — the couple’s
parents and a sister in-law. To try to assuage the anger of Armenia’s
public, Russian officials made conciliatory statements in the weeks
after the murders, although the first ones didn’t come until several
days after the crime.

President Vladimir Putin even apologized about the atrocity in a
phone call to Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan.

Now it appears that Russian authorities were intent on trying Permyakov
in a Russian court all along, and were just letting Armenians’ anger
simmer down before announcing it.Those who wanted the soldier tried
in Armenia feared that a Russian court would be too lenient with him,
perhaps freeing him after he’d served only a few years.

One reason some Armenians think Russia decided from the start to
try Permyakov in a Russian court is that few major Russian news
organizations covered the murders in the days immediately after
they occurred.

Because those media are closely aligned with the Russian government,
Armenian skeptics think their lack of coverage was a sign the soldier
would be tried in Russia and get off easy.

Another bad sign about what the trial venue would be was that the
Armenian media was timid about covering the story, according to Levon
Barseghyan of the Gyumri-based Asbarez Club of Journalists.Armenian
television networks “with large audiences” were “extremely cautious
in covering the developments,” even though they knew Armenians were
thirsting for news about the story, Barseghyan said.

The reason for the timidity, he alleged, was Armenian officials’
fear of offending Moscow.Not only are many Armenians critical of our
government’s refusal to demand that Permyakov be tried in Armenia,
they are also upset about the government’s heavy-handedness with
those demonstrating about the matter.

Thousands of demonstrators flocked to the Russian Consulate in Gyumri
and marched in the streets in the days after the murders to demand
that Permyakov be handed over to Armenian authorities. Police beat
several of them and arrested dozens more.

Critics see the police as being on Russia’s side rather than the side
of our people, who are legitimately outraged about Permyakov being
tried in a Russian court.The situation shows that the government
is doing the Kremlin’s bidding rather than watching out for its own
people’s interests, they say.

Many Armenians have watched the government agree to Russia’s demand
that Armenia join the Eurasian Economic Union rather than the European
Union, and take other steps that they see as in Moscow’s interest
rather than Armenia’s.

The question of Permyakov’s trial venue doesn’t have the geopolitical
ramifications of joining the European Union or the Eurasian Economic
Union, but it speaks volumes about whether the Armenian government
is standing up for the interests of my fellow citizens or being a
lapdog of Russia.

Armine Sahakyan is a human rights activist based in Armenia.

GazetteNET, NH
April 10 2015

Rev. Andrea Ayvazian: Armenian genocide: the truth that won’t stay told

By REV. ANDREA AYVAZIAN
Friday, April 10, 2015

NORTHAMPTON — As soon as the calendar turned from 2014 to 2015, I knew
that my April column would be devoted to the 100th anniversary of the
start of the genocide of the Armenian people — and I began to dread
what that would involve. I knew I would be forced, once again, to look
deeply into the horrors that were inflicted on my ancestors and I knew
this would again prove traumatic.

I imagined that I would spread my files and clippings on the genocide
across the living room floor in order to choose facts and quotes to
include in this piece, and that is exactly what I have done. I
imagined that I would sit on the thick Oriental rug that covers our
living room floor and weep, and that is exactly what has happened.

With my face in my hands, I have cried because every article, essay,
poem, family account and photograph is so painful that it is
impossible to approach this task with anything but the heaviest heart
and deepest sorrow.

It was on April 24, 1915, while the world’s attention was focused on
World War I (then in its second year), that the massacre of the
Armenian people by the Young Turks began. That evening, armed men
rounded up 300 Armenian political leaders, educators, writers, clergy
and dignitaries in Constantinople (present day Istanbul) and took them
from their homes to be tortured and then hung or shot on the edge of
the city.

Shortly thereafter, Armenian men throughout the country were arrested,
tied together with ropes in small groups, taken to the outskirts of
their towns and shot or bayoneted by death squads.

Armenian women, children and the elderly were ordered to pack their
belongings and leave their homes under the pretext that they were
being relocated to a non-military zone for their own safety. In
reality, they were being marched toward the Syrian desert to die.
Along the way, woman and girls were abused and raped. Most dropped
dead by the roadside from exhaustion and starvation. In the end, 1.5
million of the Ottoman Empire’s 2.1 million Armenians were killed or
died on death marches to the desert.

The Turkish government has never acknowledged its role in the slaughter.

Eyewitnesses, including German liaison officers, American missionaries
and U.S. diplomats, attested to the atrocities. The U.S. ambassador to
Turkey, Henry Morgenthau, reported to Washington: “When the Turkish
authorities gave the order for these deportations, they were giving
the death warrant to a whole race; they understood this well, and in
their conversations with me, they made no particular attempt to
conceal the fact.”

The killing of the Armenian people has been called the 20th century’s
first calculated effort to destroy an entire ethnic group. Scholars
agree that it was the massacre of the Armenian people that led
academics to coin and utilize the term “genocide.” Growing up, I heard
the stories of the massacres from my father, who was a survivor. My
father’s maternal grandfather was fatally shot at his pulpit while
delivering a sermon. My father’s mother and her sisters, in hiding,
watched from an attic window as a pogrom devastated their village.
Eventually, in 1921, my paternal grandparents, my father and his
brother escaped in the night, fled to Paris and boarded a
trans-Atlantic ship bound for Ellis Island in America.

Throughout his life, my father wrote about, gave interviews and drew
attention to the genocide in every way he possibly could. My father
was tireless in his efforts. His hope was that during this lifetime,
he would witness the Turkish government stop denying and admit to the
atrocities of the Armenian genocide. This was his greatest hope.

My father faithfully recounted his family’s history, crying as he told
the stories, wrote op-ed pieces, served on panels, gave speeches and
spoke out publicly year after year. He died at age 90, crushed that
the genocide was still consistently and forcefully denied by the
Turkish government.

In a guest editorial in this paper before his death, my father wrote,
“For over four generations, the voices of Armenian survivors have
asked for recognition of their genocide, for acknowledgement of their
martyrs, and for correction of their history under the rule of Ottoman
Turkey.” For my father, for my grandparents, for Armenians all over
the world, I will not stop writing about and weeping about the
genocide.

Like countless other Armenians who retell the stories, lift the names
of those who were lost, correct the historical record and insist that
the truth be known, we give voice to those who suffered and were
killed. We feel it is our calling and our responsibility to remember,
recount, recall and honor the dead.

April 24 is called “Armenian Martyrs’ Day.” It is a sad and sacred day
in the Armenian community. Just as we have done locally for 15 years,
Armenians and their supporters will gather to mark this day together.
You are invited to stand with us to witness to the truth of the
genocide on Martyrs’ Day in front of Memorial Hall in downtown
Northampton at 5 p.m. It is a painful day for the Armenian community,
our hearts are broken and our tears flow. We need our allies to join
us, to be part of the truth-telling, to witness to our struggle and
pain, and to lift the proud Armenian flag in sorrow and in memory.

The Rev. Andrea Ayvazian, pastor of the Haydenville Congregational
Church, writes a monthly column on faith, culture and politics. She
can be reached at [email protected].

SYSTEM OF A DOWN TALK ARMENIAN GENOCIDE, POSSIBILITY OF NEW ALBUM + IRON MAIDEN

Loud Wire
April 10 2015

by Chad Childers April 10

Much like Forrest Gump opening a box of chocolates, artists taking
part in a Reddit AMA session are never quite sure what they’re going
to get. System of a Down’s Serj Tankian and John Dolmayan were the
latest to take part in the online question-and-answer session and
fielded questions both serious and silly along the way.

Given that the band were taking part in the session to promote their
“Souls” world tour shining a spotlight on their campaign to have the
Armenian Genocide recognized on its 100th anniversary, there were
quite a few questions dealing with that topic.

When one fan from Turkey spoke of the idea of his country not
recognizing the genocide for fear of reparations made and asked what
would bring justice to the tragedy, drummer John Dolmayan stated,
“More likeminded people like you who seek out the truth and embrace
it regardless of fear of consequence.” Tankian added, “I think you’ve
nailed it on the head with the government of Turkey being afraid of
reparations or restitutions so I guess when the cost of disinformation
and diplomacy becomes larger than that of estimated reparations, we
may see some movement. There is also the issue of how does the gov’t
explain away to the people of Turkey that they have been lied to all
these years? That is also an impediment in Genocide Recognition.”

Another poster asked at what point does the pursuit of having the
genocide recognized become an impediment that holds back the Armenian
people. Tankian responded, “The Genocide and our quest for justice has
now been engrained into the DNA of Armenian culture and has become the
most prevalent characteristic and bond among our people. No culture
wants to be victimized forever. But does that have to take over our
cultural treasures? Isn’t what we’re doing with System Of A Down the
perfect marriage of that? To present our cultural assets while fighting
for justice. One without the other is an irreversible loss I think.”

As for the inevitable question about when the band might release
new music, Tankian humorously responded, “When you’re not looking,”
which led to fans asking everyone to look away. But on a more serious
note, he later added, “We will be getting together to look at what
inspires us today. If that leads to an album, then great, if not,
then that’s fine too.”

The guys also discussed some of their side projects as well. Dolmayan
revealed that there could be a These Grey Men album this year and
he’s working on it as time allows. Meanwhile, Tankian discussed the
possibility of bringing Prometheus Bound to Broadway and staging
other productions around the world.

And finally, when one fan asked what it was like to be in the greatest
band on earth, Dolmayan responded, “I don’t know. Ask Iron Maiden.”

Visit System of a Down’s website to see where the “Souls” tour is
stopping and learn more about how you can help bring awareness to
the #wakeupthesouls campaign here.

CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FELLOW TO DELIVER VARDANANTS DAY LECTURE AT THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

States News Service
April 9, 2015 Thursday

WASHINGTON

The following information was released by the Library of Congress:

Susan B. Harper will deliver the 19th Annual Vardanants Day Armenian
Lecture at the Library of Congress at noon on Thursday, May 7, in
the Northeast Pavilion of the Library’s Thomas Jefferson Building
located at 10 First Street S.E., Washington, D.C. Titled “American
Humanitarianism in the Armenian Crucible, 1915-1923,” Harper’s lecture
will feature historical photographs from the Library’s collection as
well as those of other institutions.

Harper is a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace where she is researching the history of American
philanthropy in the Near East. Harper was previously senior officer
at The Pew Charitable Trusts, executive director of the Templeton
Prize for Progress in Religion and lecturer in History, Literature and
Expository Writing at Harvard University. She received a bachelor’s
degree from Yale University and a master’s degree and doctoral
degree from Balliol College, Oxford University, where she was a
Rhodes Scholar.

Harper’s publications include “In the Shadow of the Mahatma,”
a critical biography of V.S. Azariah of Dornakal, the first South
Asian bishop of the Anglican Church. Her lecture on Mary Graffam,
an American missionary in late Ottoman Turkey, was published in the
proceedings of a conference held at the Library of Congress in 2000.

To complement the lecture, selected items from the Library’s
collections will be on display from 10:30 a.m. to noon on Friday,
May 8 in the Jefferson Building’s Northeast Pavilion (Room 220). They
will include Armenian language materials, prints and photographs,
manuscripts and maps.

The Vardanants Day lecture series is sponsored by the Near East Section
of the African and Middle Eastern Division. It is named after the
Armenian holiday that commemorates the battle of Avarayr (451 A.D.),
which was waged by the Armenian General Vardan Mamikonian and his
compatriots against invading Persian troops, who were attempting to
reimpose Zoroastrianism on the Christian state. As a religious holiday,
it celebrates the Armenians’ triumph over forces of assimilation.

Founded in 1800, the Library of Congress is the nation’s oldest
federal cultural institution. The Library seeks to spark imagination
and creativity and to further human understanding and wisdom by
providing access to knowledge through its magnificent collections,
publications, programs and exhibitions. Many of the Library’s rich
resources can be accessed through its website at

Journal La Marseillaise
April 9 2015

> nouveau temps fort au #MuCEM

Écrit par La Marseillaise

Entre histoire et mémoire, entre connaissance et reconnaissance, entre
1915 et 2015, le MuCEM propose, du 9 au 13 avril, un nouveau temps
fort. >, s’inscrit dans le
prolongement d’activités autour de la question arménienne, et du
centenaire du génocide arménien.

Ce jeudi 19h, auditorium Germaine Tillion du Mucem, soirée littéraire
avec Vahram Martirosyan et Pinar Selek. Rencontre animée par Thierry
Fabre. Entrée libre. Une soirée placée sous le signe de la
littérature, d’une mise en récits du monde, à la recherche de signes
pour contribuer à dénouer les noeuds de mémoire…

Vendredi 20h30, auditorium Germaine Tillion du Mucem, Goradz Karoun
(Le Printemps perdu), un spectacle d’Anaïs Alexandra Tekerian et
Kevork Mourad. Cent ans après le génocide arménien, une mère se voit
obligée d’expliquer le passé troublé d’un peuple à sa fille. 15 euros,
tarif réduit 11 euros.

Samedi 11 avril 17h30, auditorium Germaine Tillion du Mucem, hommage
au réalisateur Serge Avédikian, projection de court-métrages. 5 euros,
tarif réduit 3 euros.

Dimanche 12 avril 15h, auditorium Germaine Tillion du Mucem Hommage à
Robert Sahakyants, le > arménien. Programme de 7
court-métrages (durée totale : 56 minutes), réalisés en cellulo
classique, ils sont ici présentés de manière chronologique. 5 euros,
tarif réduit 3 euros.

Lundi 13 avril 19h, auditorium Germaine Tillion du Mucem
Rencontre-débat Avec Gaïdz Minassian (journaliste au Monde) et Vincent
Duclert (historien). Documentaires, reportages, JT… Au fil des
commémorations du génocide et des événements d’actualité, la question
arménienne fut largement évoquée à la télévision française durant les
dernières décennies. Ce Temps des Archives sera l’occasion de
replonger dans l’histoire des relations entre la France et l’Arménie,
ainsi que dans celle de la communauté arménienne de France. Entrée
libre dans la limite des places disponibles.

Armenian Church commemorates Beheading of St. John the Baptist today

12:43 11/04/2015 >> SOCIETY

The Saturday following the Holy Feast of the Glorious Resurrection of
Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Armenian Church commemorates the beheading
of St. John the Baptist (also known as The Forerunner), qahana.am
reports.

The writers of the Gospels, St. Matthew and St. Mark, have explained
the history of beheading of St. John the Baptist, who had baptized
Christ, and gave the good news of His Coming (Mt 14:1-12; St. Mk
6:14-29).

According to the Evangelists, King Herod arrests and imprisons St.
John the Baptist as a result of John’s condemnation of the king’s
marriage to Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip. Herod wants to
put John to death, but fears the Jews, because they considered John to
be a prophet. On Herod’s birthday, fascinated by the dancing of the
daughter of Herodias, the king makes an oath to give her anything for
which she asks. Following her unforgiving mother’s instructions, she
asks for the head of St. John the Baptist on a platter. The king,
realizing he has been fooled, grants the request.

St. John the Baptist is one of the greatest saints in the Armenian
Church. We entreat his name as an intercessor during the divine
services, generally following the name of St. Mary.

According to tradition, St. Gregory the Illuminator, brings the relics
of St. John to Armenia from Caesarea, and buries them near the town of
Moush, after which the famous Monastery of St. John the Baptist is
built. Tradition also tells us that the head of St. John the Baptist
is buried underneath the Holy Altar of the Gandzasar Monastery in
Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh).

St. John the Baptist remains as one of the most popular saints among
the Armenian faithful.

L’Orient-Le Jour, Liban
9 avril 2015

> par le photographe Vartan Dérounian

Dans le sillage des nombreuses manifestations qui vont jalonner la
commémoration du centenaire du génocide arménien, le 24 avril, un
livre parfaitement dans le ton et le mouvement. En devanture des
librairies, un ouvrage combinant photographies et textes sur le camp
des refugiés d’Alep (1922-1936) sous le titre de Mémoire arménienne
par Vartan Dérounian (127 pages, Presses de l’Université
Saint-Joseph).

Aperçu sur l’auteur, d’abord. Un homme dont la caméra est la plume…
Vartan Dérounian (1888-1954) est l’un des meilleurs photographes du
Proche-Orient de l’entre-deux-guerres. Ses albums d’inspiration
orientaliste sont consacrés aux paysages et monuments archéologiques
d’Antioche et d’Alexandrette ainsi que la vie dans les steppes
syriennes.

Tout en n’ignorant jamais ses attaches arméniennes, on le voit dans
ces pages, il se livre à une sorte de reportage sur le vif, qui
s’étale sur une quinzaine d’années, pour témoigner des souffrances et
des affres de l’exode. Ces photographies, regard douloureux, content
l’histoire des réfugiés arméniens arrivés en Syrie au début des années
1920. Miracle de la vie, ils vont survivre et s’intégrer dans une
société dont ils ignorent même la langue. À travers ces photographies,
d’une intense charge émotionnelle et parfaitement maîtrisée dans l’art
de croquer le dicible et l’indicible, on retrouve là l’oeuvre non d’un
simple photographe, mais d’un humaniste.

Un reportage poignant qui présente le camp des réfugiés d’Alep, de la
misère noire des débuts jusqu’à la construction de nouveaux quartiers,
mettant en scène le quotidien des déracinés qui travaillent, tout en
s’attachant à leurs valeurs et héritages ancestraux, à leur
réinsertion dans une société nouvelle qui leur est totalement
étrangère. Travail minutieux et fidèle à la réalité que Vartan
Dérounian exécute en toute conscience et concision pour inscrire à
jamais, dans le passage du temps, ce lieu d’une mémoire dont il se
fait le vibrant et lucide passeur.
À côté de ces images d’une saisissante éloquence, les plumes de deux
spécialistes de l’histoire du génocide arménien, Raymond Kevorkian et
Vahé Tachjian, ainsi que Jean-Claude David. Les mots, la pensée et les
témoignages de documents historiques de trois écrivains pour
accompagner ces images parfois insoutenables où l’être lutte pour son
entité, son identité et sa dignité.