Author: Kanayan Tamar

THE RATING OF THE ARMY OF ARMENIA THE HIGHEST IN THE WORLD, COMMANDOS SAYS

ARMENPRESS
JANUARY 31, 2012
YEREVAN

YEREVAN, JANUARY 31, ARMENPRESS: The army of the Republic of Armenia
is not big in number but it is more battle-worthy, hero of the Artsakh
war Arkady Ter-Tadevosyan (Commandos) told a news conference today,
convincing that in spite of the wide-scale Azerbaijani propaganda,
it is obvious that the Armenian army is more battle worthy and all
the attempts to show the strength of the Azerbaijani army are just
part of Aliyev’s “bluff”. The rating of the Armenian army is the
highest in the world.

The incidents with lethal outcome in the army cast darkness on the
rating of the structure as a person who lost son will never see
anything positive. “The young people become more courageous, more
clever and healthy in the army,” Commandos said.

Referring to the Artsakh battle, he said Armenia has not won, it
just reached success over Azerbaijan. “We are enjoying the heroic
stories, but the people really suffered. The people were the head of
the battle. Turks were crossing the border, taking animals and people
and partisan squads were defending themselves with what they could,”
Commandos said.

L. Aronyan is the champion of Wijk aan Zee super championship

On the 13thround of Tata Steel super championship held in Wijk aan
Zee,Netherlands, Armenian GM Levon Aronyan ended the match against
Azerbaijani chess-player Temur Rajabov and became the champion of the
super championship with 9 points.

Armsport.am informs about this. Levon Aronyan is awarded with 10.000
euros for the victory at this championship. Aronyan held great matches
at this championship. From 13 matches Aronyan had two defeats, 4
matches ended in drawn and 7 of them were ended with victory. Besides
this Aronyan’s matches were announced to be the best for three times.

29.01.12, 16:43

One Armenian MP – businessman to be replaced with another

NEWS.AM
January 29, 2012 | 12:21

GAVAR. – In the 22nd electoral district in Gavar, Armenia, MP from
ruling Republican Party of Armenia (RPA), owner of Eurostan Uyut
company Manvel Badeyan will also put his candidacy by the majoritarian
system, the MP himself told the reporter of Armenian News-NEWS.am.

The MP confessed that the nomination by the majoritarian system was
also his proposal.

Badeyan informed that he has been proposed to put his candidacy.

To note another well-known businessman, MP from RPA had been elected
from that district, but we were not able to contact him as he is
outside Armenia currently.

LOI DE PENALISATION
Après la France, l’Allemagne ? La crainte de la Turquie

Après la France, l’Allemagne ? Erhan Mertürk, l’un des chroniqueurs de
la CNN Türk pense qu’après le vote de la loi de pénalisation des
génocides, en Allemagne, la Bundestag pourrait suivre le pas et voter
à son tour une loi similaire. « Puis d’autres pays emboîteraient le
pas » dit E. Mertürk. Ce dernier est convaincu que les Allemands qui
furent les alliés de l’Empire Ottoman peuvent voter une loi
sanctionnant la négation du génocide des Arméniens. « Talaat Pacha fut
assassiné à Berlin et celui qui l’a abattu, Tehlirian est resté deux
jours en prison avant d’être reconnu innocent et libéré » dit le
journaliste turc qui pense que l’opinion publique turque n’influe pas
assez au sein du monde politique européen. Il appelle les Turcs à
mettre davantage la pression auprès des élus européens.

Krikor Amirzayan

dimanche 29 janvier 2012,
Krikor Amirzayan ©armenews.com

CRIMINAL RULES IN ARMY
Naira Hayrumyan

Story from Lragir.am News:

Published: 16:13:35 – 27/01/2012

The army has not been ruled by the law but ministerial orders,
government decrees, as well as the unacceptable Soviet legacy,
criminal rules so far,” stated the head of the NA Defense Committee
Hrair Karapetyan.

Tomorrow the army will celebrate its 20th anniversary. This birthday
will be under social focus as it has become clear that the army is
not the family house of the generals but public property.

This process is complicated, as the legitimization of any closed
system. The representatives of army structures are trying to cover the
gaps with curtains, announcing that reporters must reveal the sources
of incidents reported in the army though they are still trying to
prove that the investigation of incidents is the business of the army.

The references to the enemy’s mill are still alive.

However, the wall is melting like ice, and high-ranking officials
already start understanding that all these arguments are funny. For
instance, in the past 2 years the army crimes covered by the media
outlets did not bring any achievement to the enemy’s mill.

Our rivals in war are not happy with these publications. Moreover,
they fear that the Armenian army is healing. And it is not accidental
that they do not accuse the watchdogs of treason. Another hindrance,
namely the military secret, has also been overcome. This year the
soldiers began speaking up about army incidents. It was general
information but the number of incidents has dropped. Nobody argues
that information, and this was a credit to the army.

This credit should indicate to the army command that the society
is not the enemy of the army, as some people try to present it, and
is not going to degrade the army. People simply try to know in what
conditions their sons work, what dangers they undergo and how they
punish those guilty. And if the army leadership announces that their
sons serve in normal conditions, they must not have anything to hide.

On the contrary, the army leadership must reveal these conditions. The
lack of information makes the society suppose that the conditions
are not model ones. And the society starts to fight.

The army has become more open. There is more discipline there. More
incidents happen, often resulting in death but only because a lot of
people are still unpunished because the army lives by criminal rules
which supposes framework guarantees.

The army leadership will have to eliminate it one day. For this reason,
it is necessary to reveal and punish those guilty, otherwise there
will be more claims.

LITHUANIAN FM ON GENOCIDE: SOONER OR LATER WE’LL FACE HISTORY

PanARMENIAN.Net
January 27, 2012 – 11:31 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net – During a press conference with Armenian Foreign
Minister Edward Nalbandian Lithuanian FM Audronius Azubalis voiced
his stance on French Senate’s adoption of the bill criminalizing the
Armenian Genocide denial.

“Sooner of later we will come face to face with history, giving fair
assessment to the past. Otherwise there can be no peaceful relations.

That’s why I support those politicians who stand for debate of
historical events,” he stated.

For his part, Minister Nalbandian noted that the French draft law is
not aimed against any country.

The two men further dwelled on Armenia-EU cooperation and Nagorno
Karabakh conflict settlement, with Minister Ažubalis reaffirming
Lithuania’s adherence to OSCE Minsk Group format.

On January 23, the French Senate passed the bill, initiated by a Deputy
Valérie Boyer, with 127 votes for and 86 against. On December 22,
2011, it was adopted by the French National Assembly. The bill will
impose a 45,000 euro fine and a year in prison for anyone in France
who denies this crime against humanity committed by the Ottoman Empire.

SEVERAL HOMEOWNERS WHO LOST THEIR HOMES WERE CALLED IN FOR QUESTIONING

epress.am
01.27.2012

Homeowners promised apartments in new buildings on Aram, Yekmalyan,
Buzand and Saryan streets in Yerevan continued their protests
today outside the presidential residence. Protestors were chanting
“President, answer!”, but this time no one from the president’s office
approached them.

Protesting homeowner Sona Maghakyan told Epress.am that today they
decided to send a letter to Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan, but
Special Investigation Services called several members of their group
in for questioning.

“Calling [them] for questioning was premeditated because they knew
quite well that we were preparing to come early in the morning to
the intersection of Baghramyan and Demirchyan and wait until Serzh
Sargsyan comes to his office. We hope that perhaps this way we will
be able to give him the letter and force him to pay attention to us.

Being questioned by the Special Investigation Services was done with
a special purpose [in mind], so that our group becomes fragmented
and doesn’t attract attention. As a result, there are few signatures
in the letter, but we’re here and we’re waiting, that the homeowners
being questioned will come to the presidential residence and join us,”
she said.

TSVETANA PASKALEVA: PRESENT GENERATION NOT WELL FAMILIAR WITH ARTSAKH HEROES

Panorama.am
27/01/2012

“The Armenian army was created just in the battlefield, when Karabakh
people’s fate was being decided, in those terrible days Karabakh people
was going through,” Bulgarian director, cinematographer and reporter
Tsvetana Paskaleva told a news conference. “The army was created in
that terrible situation, in the battlefield, without any foundation.”

“The inner determination of people in the battlefield helped them
unite and succeed,” said the Bulgarian reporter.

According to her, unfortunately, the present generation is not well
familiar with the Artsakh heroes.

“They should know the heroes and learn from their experience,”
said Paskaleva.

ABSURD TO SPEAK OF ARMENIAN ARMY’S COMBAT READINESS: WAR VETERAN

epress.am
01.27.2012

It’s absurd to speak of the combat readiness of today’s Armenian army,
said commander of the Shushi battalion during the Nagorno-Karabakh
War and one of the founders of the Sardarapat civic movement Jirair
Sefilian, speaking to journalists in Yerevan today.

Speaking a day before the 20th anniversary of Armenia’s Armed Forces,
Sefilian said the hopes he had pinned on the army during the years
of the Nagorno-Karabakh War haven’t been justified.

“The army was to have served our country’s foreign and domestic
policies. Now the army has become a tool in the hands of the
authorities. The example is that they immersed the army in pressuring
internal unrest, which can’t be without consequences. I am against
the view that the army is society’s mirror. We could’ve created an
army that would’ve had only a positive impact on forming society. If
heros, and not usurpers, held the high-ranking positions in the army,
we would’ve had not only another army, but also a completely different
society,” he said.

As for recent incidents in the army and the increase in public
attention toward them, Sefilian said he was against both harassment
against the army and crimes in the army.

“We have to differentiate the wet from the dry. There’s criticism
that’s done to discredit [the army] and there’s criticism that is
for improving the army,” he said.

THE DESTRUCTION OF ARMENIANS IN CILICIA, APRIL 1909
by Hratchik Simonyan

Noyan Tapan
2012-01-26

One of the greatest massacres in late Ottoman history took place
in April 1909, when Armenians were the target of two massive waves
of violence organized by Ottoman authorities. These massacres took
place in Cilicia (i.e. Adana province and surrounding areas) with an
estimated 30,000 victims plus huge material losses. Most Armenian
historians consider these massacres to have been a prelude to the
Armenian Genocide of 1915.
Hrachik Simonyan~Rs The Destruction of Armenians in Cilicia, April
1909 is a detailed account of the 1909 massacres based mainly on a
range of Armenian primary and secondary sources. His work helps us to
better understand the victimization of Armenians and the polarization
of Ottoman society along ethno-religious lines barely a year after
the Ottoman constitutional revolution of 1908.