Author: Kanayan Tamar

BOXE
Arthur Abraham défend ce soir son titre mondial des super-moyens WBO
face au monténégrin Nikola Sjekloca

Ce soir à Berlin, l’arméno-allemand Arthur Abraham (39 victoires, dont
28 par KO et 4 défaites) affronte le monténégrin Nikola Sjekloca (26
victoires, 1 défaite, 8 KO) pour le titre mondial des super-moyens
WBO. Arthur Abraham tentera de conserver son titre mondial. A la
pesée, hier, Arthur Abraham pesait 76,1 kg. Le combat qui débute à 23
heures est diffusé en direct sur la chaîne allemande ARD.

Krikor Amirzayan

samedi 3 mai 2014,
Krikor Amirzayan ©armenews.com

Message de Serj Tankian au peuple Turc
Faudra-t-il, pour obtenir justice, que je combatte la propagande et la
corruption par-dessus les frontières ?

à la veille du 24 Avril, Serj Tankian leader du célèbre groupe
américain System of a down a adressé un message au peuple turc dans le
magazine Agos, en Turc, Arménien et Anglais.

Cher Peuple de Turquie,

Je m’appelle Serj Tankian. Je suis libanais, né arménien américain
néo-zélandais.

Mes quatre grands-parents viennent de la région appelée aujourd’hui Turquie.

Mon grand-père Stepan venait de Efkere à Kayseri, tandis que ma
grand-mère Varsenig venait de Tokat. Mes autres grands-parents
venaient de Dortiol et d’Ourfa. Aucun parmi eux n’était parti
volontairement.

Ils étaient tous survivants de l’horrible Génocide commis par le
gouvernement Ittihad aux derniers jours de l’Empire ottoman.

Ils étaient tous enfants à cette époque. Mon grand-père Stepan fut
recueilli et élevé dans un orphelinat américain, puis dans un
orphelinat grec avant d’arriver au Liban comme réfugié. Ma grand-mère
Varsenig et sa grand-mère furent sauvées du massacre par un maire turc
qui fit au péril de sa vie ce qui lui semblait juste.

Ce sont quelques histoires qui se trouvent dans les archives turques
et celles d’autres nations. Ce sont les histoires vraies de ma
famille.

Il y a plus de 600 ans, la région d’où venaient mes grands parents
était appelée Arménie historique. Lorsque des anthropologues fouillent
en Turquie, ils trouvent les restes de notre civilisation, de celles
des Grecs et d’autres civilisations.

La Turquie est importante pour moi, pas seulement parce que mes
grands-parents en viennent, mais parce que mon ethnie entière vient de
ces terres qui lui ont été prises de force, non par la guerre, ou par
un nouveau tracé des frontières, mais par les ordres brutaux du
Gouvernement de l’Ittihad.

Qu’est-ce que cela signifie pour nous aujourd’hui ? C’est tout à fait
simple. Les Arméniens ne veulent pas créer des problèmes à la Turquie,
ou y créer des divisions ethniques, nous voulons simplement la justice
afin de pouvoir tous nous sortir de cette douleur historique qui
déforme nos relations. Il ne s’agit pas seulement de l’histoire des
Arméniens, il s’agit également de l’histoire de la Turquie.

Le gouvernement d’Erdogan fera-t-il ce qui convient en se réconciliant
avec tout cela ? Je ne le pense pas. Pas plus que ne le fera la junte
militaire qui était au pouvoir en Turquie tout au long de l’ère
moderne.

Savez vous que votre gouvernement dépense des millions de dollars
chaque année dans des capitales étrangères pour nier cette vérité, y
engageant toutes sortes de groupes de pression et créant des chaires
d’université pour réinventer la vérité Ã sa guise ? Savez vous ce que
cela fait ressentir à un Arménien ? Quelle expérience douloureuse est
cela ? Être le petit-fils de survivants d’une horrible tragédie de
l’histoire ne suffit-il pas ? Faut-il que je combatte la propagande et
la corruption par-dessus les frontières pour obtenir justice ?

Les remous qui secouent la Turquie aujourd’hui pour se trouver
elle-même sont relatifs à nous, les Arméniens. Il est impossible de
laisser ces problèmes sans solution : nos histoires, géographies et
nos sangs respectifs sont trop proches.

Les Arméniens et les Turcs méritent avant toute chose des dirigeants
et des gouvernements qui soient vraiment égalitaires, démocratiques et
non corrompus.

Pour terminer, je veux simplement dire merci à chacun de vous,
citoyens surprenants de ce peuple turc que j’ai rencontrés, qui m’ont
raconté leurs histoires en tournée ou en ligne, et qui m’ont donné
l’espoir d’un rapprochement fondé sur la vérité et la justice.

Mon souhait, Cher Peuple de Turquie, est que vous vous trouviez vous-même.

à l’occasion du 24 avril,

Paix,

Serj

Traduction Gilbert Béguian pour Armenews.com

samedi 3 mai 2014,
Jean Eckian ©armenews.com

Internazionale, Italia
24 aprile 2014

Le scuse di ErdoÄ?an non convincono gli armeni

24 aprile 2014

Le celebrazioni dell’anniversario del genocidio a Erevan, in Armenia,
il 24 aprile 2014. (Karen Minasyan, Afp)

Il 23 aprile il premier turco Recep Tayyip ErdoÄ?an ha offerto le sue
condoglianze per il massacro degli armeni da parte dell’impero
Ottomano durante la prima guerra mondiale. Il comunicato, tradotto in
nove lingue incluso l’armeno e diffuso alla vigilia del 99esimo
anniversario dell’inizio dei massacri e delle deportazioni,
tradizionalmente fissato al 24 aprile 1915, è considerato il passo più
significativo compiuto da un leader turco sull’argomento.

Il presidente armeno Serž Sargsjan e molti esponenti della diaspora
armena hanno però condannato il comunicato di ErdoÄ?an perché continua
a evitare di usare il termine genocidio, utilizzando invece
l’espressione `gli eventi del 2015′ che il governo turco ha adottato
con una circolare del 2007. Sargsyan ha anche promesso che le
celebrazioni del centenario del genocidio nel 2015 serviranno a dare
un `messaggio forte’ alla Turchia.

Lo sterminio e la deportazione di massa della popolazione cristiana
dell’Armenia occidentale erano stati decisi dall’impero Ottomano agli
inizi della prima guerra mondiale in seguito alle sconfitte subite per
opera dell’esercito russo, in cui militavano anche battaglioni di
volontari armeni. A partire dall’inizio del 1915 gli armeni maschi in
età da servizio militare erano stati concentrati in `battaglioni di
lavoro’ e poi giustiziati in massa, mentre il resto della popolazione
era stato deportato verso la regione di Deir ez Zor in Siria con delle
`marce della morte’ attraverso le montagne e il deserto. Secondo gli
armeni le vittime complessive furono circa un milione e mezzo.

Una mappa del 1965 del genocidio (clicca per ingrandire):

(fonte: The Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute)

Molti storici ritengono che quello degli armeni sia stato il primo
genocidio moderno. Secondo Raphael Lemkin, che ha coniato il termine
nel 1944, si è trattato del primo episodio in cui uno stato ha
pianificato ed eseguito sistematicamente lo sterminio di un popolo. La
Turchia però non ha mai accettato la definizione di genocidio,
sostenendo che le atrocità compiute dall’impero Ottomano erano una
risposta all’insurrezione degli armeni e alla necessità di difendere
le frontiere, e sottolineando che anche migliaia di turchi erano morti
nel conflitto.

La questione del riconoscimento del genocidio è esplosa nel 1965 in
occasione del cinquantesimo anniversario dei massacri, quando in
Armenia e a Beirut si svolsero grandi manifestazioni. Il governo turco
ha sempre risposto sottolineando le responsabilità degli armeni. Nel
1993 la crisi tra Ankara ed Erevan è stata aggravata dal conflitto del
Nagorno-Karabakh tra l’Armenia e l’Azerbaijan, un paese di lingua ed
etnia turca. Da allora le relazioni diplomatiche tra i due paesi sono
interrotte e le frontiere sono chiuse.

L’avvento al potere in Turchia nel 2003 del partito islamico Akp, che
aveva provocato una profonda rottura con i precedenti governi
nazionalisti, aveva fatto sperare in un riavvicinamento tra i due
paesi, nonostante l’omicidio del giornalista turco-armeno Hrant Dink,
che si era battuto per il riconoscimento del genocidio, da parte di un
nazionalista nel 1997.

Nel 2009 i due paesi avevano avviato una trattativa per la
normalizzazione dei rapporti, ma il processo si era presto arenato a
causa della questione del genocidio e del mancato accordo tra Armenia
e Azerbaijan sul Nagorno-Karabakh. Nel 2013 il procuratore generale
armeno ha dichiarato che l’Armenia potrebbe avviare un’azione legale
per ottenere dalla Turchia restituzione delle terre che erano
appartenute alle vittime del genocidio.

Negli ultimi mesi la comunità armena ha accusato la Turchia di
sostenere i ribelli islamisti che hanno attaccato alcuni villaggi a
maggioranza armena nel nord della Siria, provocando la fuga di
migliaia di persone per paura di persecuzioni religiose.

Secondo alcuni osservatori, le condoglianze di ErdoÄ?an sono
soprattutto un tentativo di recuperare una parte del consenso
internazionale perso negli ultimi mesi a causa della repressione delle
proteste di piazza Taksim a Istanbul e delle accuse di corruzione e
autoritarismo. Per altri invece si tratta di una continuazione degli
sforzi dell’Akp per rompere con il passato nazionalista che hanno
portato anche a una ripresa dei negoziati di pace con i curdi.

I paesi che riconoscono ufficialmente il genocidio armeno sono 23, tra
cui l’Italia, mentre in altri è riconosciuto solo da singoli enti o
amministrazioni. Molti altri paesi, tra cui gli Stati Uniti e Israele,
continuano a non usare il termine genocidio per timore di una crisi
nei rapporti con la Turchia. Barack Obama si era espresso in favore
del riconoscimento prima di diventare presidente degli Stati Uniti, ma
pur promuovendo la pacificazione tra Turchia e Armenia ha evitato di
usare il termine da quando è arrivato al potere.

Riconoscimento ufficiale (in verde scuro) e parziale del genocidio armeno:

Articolotre, Italia
24 aprile 2014

Olocausto armeno. Prima volta per le scuse di un premier turco

Per la prima volta un premier turco ha fatto le condoglianze alla
popolazione armena a seguito delle numerose morti avvenute nel 1915.

-Redazione- Il premier turco Recep Tayyip Erdogan ha fatto le
condoglianze della Turchia alla popolazione armena a seguito
dell’olocausto avvenuto nel 1915 sul suolo dell’impero ottomano. Si è
trattato di una prima volta in assoluto da parte di un primo ministro
dello stato anatolico.

Il gesto ha una importanza simbolica rilevante, visto che mai fino a
oggi era stato effettuato un simile segno, ma soprattutto è stato
evidenziato con un comunicato diffuso in nove diverse lingue, tra le
quali anche lo stesso armeno, altro aspetto estremamente importante.

“E’ un dovere umano capire e condividere la volontà degli armeni di
commemorare le loro sofferenze durante quel periodo”.

Journal of Turkish Weekly
May 2 2014

Erdogan’s historic statement on 1915 killings pleases both sides

2 May 2014

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s recent statement of condolences
for the 1915 mass killings of Armenians, the first such statement by
the Turkish government, was welcomed by Armenians, Turks and the
European Union.

After Erdogan’s statement was published in nine languages, EU
Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fule sent out a tweet saying
“reconciliation is a key EU value” and expressing hope that “steps in
this spirit would follow.”

Erdogan called the events of 1915 “inhumane.”

“The incidents of the First World War are our shared pain. To evaluate
this painful period of history through a perspective of just memory is
a humane and scholarly responsibility. Millions of people of all
religions and ethnicities lost their lives in the First World War.
Having experienced events which had inhumane consequences — such as
expulsion — during the First World War, should not prevent Turks and
Armenians from establishing compassion and mutually humane attitudes
toward one another,” the statement read.

The deaths of more than 1 million people, primarily Armenians at the
hands of Ottomans, are considered genocide by Armenia and some
international organisations. Turkey disputes the characterisation.

Professor Ayhan Kaya, director of the European Institute in Istanbul
Bilgi University, said the prime minister’s statement should be
perceived as a major step for Turkey in terms of normalising relations
with Armenia. “Actually, since the AKP [Justice and Development Party]
came to power, there were attempts on the part of the Turkish state
and society to come to terms with the past. These attempts were going
in parallel with the Europeanisation of Turkey,” Kaya told SES
Türkiye.

Hundreds of people, including Armenians, gathered in Istanbul’s Taksim
Square to show solidarity on April 23rd.

The Armenian Patriarchate in Istanbul released a statement on the same
day, saying Erdogan’s statement was encouraging for Armenian and
Turkish people to take positive steps in the future, and that it
helped to ease the pain of Armenians.

In his statement on April 24th, Armenian President Serzh Sarksyan did
not refer to Erdogan’s remarks but emphasised that Armenia believes
that “the denial of a crime constitutes direct continuation of that
very crime; and only recognition and condemnation can prevent the
repetition of such crimes in the future.”

“We do not consider the Turkish society as our enemy. Bowing to the
memory of the innocent victims we remember all those Turks and Turkish
families who lent a helping hand to their Armenian neighbours,” he
added.

Last December, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu paid Turkey’s first
high-level state visit to Armenia in five years. The visit was
considered as a significant step for the rapprochement between the two
neighbours. The territorial border has been closed since Turkey shut
its border with Armenia in 1993 in support of Azerbaijan, which was in
a dispute with Armenia over the control of the Nagorno-Karabakh
region. Kevork Gallosyan, an Armenian citizen living in Istanbul and
working as the project co-ordinator of Fair Memory Initiative,
congratulated Erdogan for his courage but added that more needs to be
done.

“It is just the beginning of a process. There is still a widespread
lack of knowledge and prejudice in the Turkish society toward Armenian
people,” Gallosyan told SES Türkiye. “We need to shape our common
future by combating such approaches and preventing extreme animosities
on both sides through a fair memory.”

Aghavni Karakhanian, director of Yerevan-based Institute for Civil
Society and Regional Development, said Turkey should recognise the
deaths as genocide.

“The new conceptualisation of Armenian-Turkish relations can occur
only with recognition by Turkey the fact of Armenian genocide.
Erdogan’s statement lacks something that’s vital for the Armenians
issue: recognition,” she said.

2 May 2014

SES Türkiye

Human Rights Watch
May 2 2014

Azerbaijan: Stop Harassing Rights Defender

Hollande, Council of Europe Leadership Should Speak Out

Berlin) – Azerbaijani authorities are harassing and engaging in
oppressive tactics against a prominent human rights defender. The
Azerbaijani government should end the harassment against rights
defender Leyla Yunus and her husband, Arif.

Azerbaijan’s international partners, in particular fellow members of
the Council of Europe, should make clear that continued harassment of
human rights defenders, and the Yunuses in particular, will affect
their relationships with Azerbaijan’s government.

“Leyla and Arif Yunus are among many people the Azerbaijani
authorities find ‘inconvenient,'” said Rachel Denber, deputy Europe
and Central Asia director at Human Rights Watch. “No government should
be allowed to get away with targeting human rights defenders while
it’s seeking to boost its international prestige.”

On April 28, 2014, Baku airport police prevented the couple from
leaving the country, confiscated their passports, and subjected them
to a 24-hour ordeal that led to Arif Yunus’s hospitalization. The
prosecutor’s office subsequently designated them as witnesses in a
treason investigation against Azerbaijani journalist and civic
activist Rauf Mirgadirov, who was deported from Turkey on April 19 and
then arrested in Baku.

The authorities should immediately return the Yunuses’ passports and
stop the arbitrary interference with their freedom of movement and
right to leave their country, Human Rights Watch said. There is no
provision in Azerbaijani law to bar people who are designated
witnesses in a criminal investigation from leaving the country.

President Francois Hollande of France is scheduled to visit Azerbaijan
on May 11 and 12, and it is expected that Leyla Yunus may meet with
him when he is in Baku. In 2013 the French ambassador for human rights
awarded Yunus France’s Legion of Honor award (Ordre National de la
Légion d’honneur) – the highest French decoration – for her courage
and promotion of human rights. Hollandeshould insist on seeing the
Yunuses while in Baku and make clear that their freedom, and
Mirgadirov’s, is of great importance to him, and to French-Azerbaijani
relations.

On May 15, Azerbaijan will take over the rotating chairmanship of the
Council of Europe, Europe’s foremost human rights body. The body’s
secretary-general, Thorbjorn Jagland, should express urgent concern
about harassment of the Yunuses and the treatment of Mirgadirov, as
well as the wider crackdown on civic activists and journalists under
way for the past year in Azerbaijan, which has intensified in recent
months.

“The harassment against the Yunuses is only the latest example of the
Azerbaijani government’s efforts to muzzle critics,” Denber said. “The
Council of Europe’s top leadership should step in immediately and say
that this conduct is utterly inappropriate for a government that is
about to take over the organization’s chairmanship.”

Leyla Yunus is the director of the Institute for Peace and Democracy,
a human rights group formed in 1995 that has focused on combating
politically motivated prosecutions, corruption, violence against
women, and unlawful house evictions. It has also been involved in
projects aimed at improving people-to-people dialogue between people
in Azerbaijan and Armenia, against the background of the unresolved
conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, a primarily ethnic Armenian-populated
autonomous enclave in Azerbaijan.

In the April 28 incident, airport police at about 11 p.m. stopped the
Yunuses from boarding a plane, searched their belongings, and
confiscated a laptop computer and documents. Yunus told Human Rights
Watch that the National Security Ministry and officials from the
prosecutor general’s office questioned the couple at the airport,
refusing to allow their lawyer access to them.

At about 3 a.m., law enforcement agents accompanied the couple to
their apartment and attempted to search it. Because the officials
refused to show Leyla Yunus a search warrant, she refused to allow
them to enter. During the exchange at the apartment, Arif Yunus, who
had been hospitalized the week before with high blood pressure and a
heart condition, fell ill and was rushed to the hospital again. He is
in intensive care.

The next morning, after a sleepless night, Leyla Yunus was questioned
for hours at the prosecutor general’s office, this time in the
presence of her lawyer. At about 4 p.m., she was released without
charge. That evening police, producing a warrant, searched her home
and her office, confiscating, among other things, books by Arif Yunus,
a book in Armenian, a photocopy of Mirgadirov’s ID, and computers.

Yunus’s lawyer told Human Rights Watch that all of the prosecutor’s
questions related to their work on building dialogue with Armenians
and her relationship with Mirgadirov, who is facing charges of spying
for Armenia in connection with trips he made to Armenia, Georgia, and
Turkey in 2008 and 2009.

Mirgadirov had been involved in “second track diplomacy” between
Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh. He participated in
meetings organized by nongovernmental organizations in Armenia aimed
at improving people-to-people dialogue between the conflicting sides.
The Institute for Peace and Democracy co-organized some of those
programs.

In an April 29 news article, the press service for the prosecutor
general’s office said that the Yunuses were witnesses to a criminal
investigation and alleged that they had previously ignored an attempt
to be served with an interrogation summons and follow-up phone calls
asking them to appear for questioning.

Yunus’s lawyer told Human Rights Watch that on April 24 an official
came to the Yunuses’ home to deliver a summons to appear for
interrogation in several hours, which Leyla Yunus refused, saying she
had not received adequate notice. Another person close to the case
told Human Rights Watch that this incident had resulted in Arif
Yunus’s earlier hospitalization with hypertension.

Azerbaijan has a long history of using bogus charges to imprison its
critics, including on treason charges, Human Rights Watch said.

In August 2011, violating a court injunction, the Baku authorities
demolished without warning a building owned by Leyla Yunus as part of
a government land clearance to make way for a park and business area.
The building housed the Institute for Peace and Democracy and two
other human rights groups. Yunus had repeatedly criticized the
government’s redevelopment plans for the area.

“The ordeal the authorities subjected the Yunuses to bears all the
marks of a government getting ready to pounce on two people it has
long had in its crosshairs,” Denber said. “The government needs to
back off and both President Hollande and the Council of Europe need to
make that clear.”

Fars News Agency, Iran
May 2 2014

Armenian Envoy Calls for Broadening Economic Ties with Iran

TEHRAN (FNA)- Armenian Ambassador to Iran Grigor Arakelian underlined
abundant commonalities of the two nations, and said the ground is
prepared for the further expansion of economic relations between
Tehran and Yerevan.

“The opportunities for presence of foreign investors, particularly
Armenians, have risen as a result of the new Iranian government’s
policies,” Arakelian said in a meeting attended by 12 representatives
of foreign countries in Salafchagan Special Economic Zone in Qom
province on Thursday.

Arakelian pointed to Armenia-Iran cordial relations, and said, “The
two countries should make use of their potentialities to enhance ties
in various sectors.”

He noted that Iran and Armenia also enjoy very close cooperation at
the international organizations.

In recent years, Iran and its Northern neighbor Armenia have boosted
cooperation, signed agreements on energy cooperation and agreed to
cooperate in technology and research and enhance ties in commerce and
economy.

In August, Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani and his Armenian
counterpart Serzh Sargsian, in a meeting in Tehran, hailed the
friendly relations between the two neighboring states, and called for
the expansion of mutual cooperation in all arenas.

During the meeting, the Iranian president said that relations between
Iran and Armenia have been friendly based on mutual interests and
there is no doubt that the same trend will be continued in future to
help enhance the current level of relations and cooperation.

“Iran has always called for expansion of relations and cooperation
with Armenia thanks to both sides cultural and civilization
commonalities,” Rouhani added.

“Armenia at international conferences has always adopted a very close
and friendly stand with Iran, which helps meet both sides’ interests,”
Rouhani said.

The Armenian president, for his part, said that Iran and Armenia have
kept abreast of developments throughout history and in the past 20
years they developed economic cooperation.

“There is no doubt that ties and cooperation between the two countries
will be bolstered in line with the expansion of economic cooperation
during the tenure of president Rouhani,” he said.

According to the National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC), around 1.5
billion cubic meters of natural gas has been traded with Armenian
electricity from 2007 to 2012.

Azerbaijani radio has undergone obstruction because of airing Armenian songs

21:02 02/05/2014 » LAW

National Council on Television and Radio of Azerbaijan (NCTR) claimed
the leadership of the ANS FM radio station for constant propaganda of
Armenian songs within the frameworks of the music program “Caucasus
Top 20”, reported NCTR Chairman Nushiravan Magerramli to Azerbaijani
news agency “APA.”

According to Magerramli, the NCTR employee was requested to contact
with the leadership of ANS FM in connection with the airing of
Armenian songs: “I requested to clarify this issue, and such a
broadcast was not allowed, as it plays on people’s feelings.
Unfortunately, the response of the ANS FM leadership given to the
employee of NCTR, causes regret.”

Magerramli stated that Armenia and Azerbaijan are in war, and they
should be very careful in these issues.

“The logic of the leadership of ANS FM “Culture has no borders” is
incorrect. By this logic, we should perform Armenian movies in
Azerbaijan, sell Armenian goods, hold exhibitions of their artists,”
stated Magerramli.

According to the Azerbaijani news portal “Minval.az”, according to
Tavakkyula Dadasheva, the head of the Examination, Programming and
Monitoring Division of the NCTR, in connection with the broadcast of
Armenian songs on the ANS FM a reference letter was sent to the
leadership.

“A reference letter was prepared and directed to the leadership,
stating that the ANS FM broadcasts Armenian songs and the anchorperson
publicly announces this. Measures will be undertaken in accordance
with the law,” stated Dadashev.

Source: Panorama.am

GenEd Republishes Landmark Book of Armenian Genocide News Reports

Friday, May 2nd, 2014

‘The Armenian Genocide: News Accounts from the American Press: 1915-1922′

SAN FRANCISCO’The Genocide Education Project has republished the
seminal book, `The Armenian Genocide: News Accounts from the American
Press: 1915-1922.’ Originally edited and published in 1980 by Richard
Kloian, the founder of the Armenian Genocide Resource Center who
passed away in 2010, the 400 page book is a compilation of New York
Times articles, magazine stories, eyewitness accounts, and official
documents about the Armenian Genocide, as they were first published in
the American press of the day. The Genocide Education Project (GenEd)
was given the rights to the book by Mrs. Toni Kloian, in order for the
book to remain in publication and continue to provide scholars,
educators, and policy makers access to this valuable resource.

“The Armenian Genocide: News Accounts from the American Press’ is an
essential work of scholarship,’ writes author and Colgate University
professor, Peter Balakian. `Kloian meticulously presents the vast and
rich coverage of the Armenian Genocide in the major American press,
especially the New York Times, and in doing so provides us with an
important way of understanding the scope and magnitude of the Armenian
Genocide in its historical moment ‘ a moment that still has large
ramifications nearly a century later.’

`The Armenian Genocide: News Accounts from the American Press’ is a
compelling chronicle of the Armenian Genocide, the systematic
deportations and massacres of the Armenians of the Ottoman Empire,
perpetrated by the Turkish government between 1915 and 1922. Reports
in U.S. newspapers of the 1890-1909 massacres and the 1915 genocide
galvanized the entire nation, spawning the first international human
rights movement in the United States, including protests and
unprecedented national relief efforts.

Editor and publisher of the book, Richard Kloian

Included in the book are:
¢ 200 articles from The New York Times, 1890-1915
¢ 68 articles from fourteen American journals
¢ American Ambassador Morgenthau’s personal account of the genocide
¢ Lord Bryce’s report on Turkish atrocities in Armenia
¢ Accounts by German, Turkish, Italian & Danish eyewitnesses
¢ Scores of eyewitness survivor accounts
¢ Telegrams by the Turkish Interior Minister, Talaat Pasha, admitting genocide
¢ Transcript of the Ottoman Military Court trial indictment and death
sentences for the former leaders for war crimes
¢ Photographs of the deportations and massacres

Alan Whitehorn, emeritus professor of political science at the Royal
Military College of Canada, recently wrote in the Armenian Weekly,
`The most innovative and path-breaking work on newspaper coverage of
the genocide was conducted by Richard Kloian in his 1980 monumental
book, `The Armenian Genocide: News Accounts From the American Press
(1915-1922).’ Working for many years to gather diverse material and
employing far less advanced technology, Kloian surveyed the American
press for the key seven-year period¦The volume he delivered at nearly
400 pages was epic and pioneering¦ It is an essential reference work
for anyone doing sustained research on the Armenian Genocide.’

The American Book Review stated it is `a must for all libraries that
have sections devoted to the Middle East, Armenia, and the phenomenon
of genocide.’

`The Armenian Genocide: News Accounts from the American Press:
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ARMENIE
Les communistes arméniens se rassemblent en soutien à l’Union douanière

Des centaines de partisans du Parti communiste arménien (HKK) ont
exigé une rapide adhésion de l’Arménie à l’union dirigée par la Russie
alors qu’ils défilaient dans le centre d’Erevan lors de la célébration
de la Journée du 1er mai.

Le cortège s’est terminé devant l’ambassade de Russie dans la capitale
arménienne où les dirigeants du HKK ont lu une pétition exprimant un
soutien fort pour le `processus d’intégration à grande échelle` du
président russe Vladimir Poutine pour l’ex-Union soviétique. `Russie !
Russie ! ` scandait la foule brandissant des drapeaux rouges et des
banderoles.

`S’il y a eu une bonne chose de faite par Serge Sarkissian, c’est sa
décision de rejoindre l’Union douanière,` a dit un manifestant gé au
service arménien de RFE / RL (Azatutyun.am). Il a dit que les
négociations d’adhésion en cours entre l’Arménie et la Russie, la
Biélorussie et le Kazakhstan doivent être conclues dès que possible.

« Je suis très reconnaissant à Vladimir Poutine pour la mise en place
de l’Union douanière`, a déclaré un autre, plus jeune.

Le Premier secrétaire du HKK, Tachat Sarkissian, a affirmé que
l’adhésion au sein du bloc, que Poutine veut transformer en une Union
eurasienne, est essentiel pour mettre fin aux malheurs
socio-économiques de l’Arménie. Il s’est opposé aux critiques que cela
mettrait la souveraineté du pays en danger. `Au contraire, nous allons
nous sentir encore plus en sécurité après avoir rejoint l’Union
douanière,` a-t-il déclaré.

Beaucoup de soutiens au HKK marquent cette Journée du 1er avec leur
vie plus prospère dans l’ex-URSS. « Ã l’époque, nous allions aux
célébrations du premier mai avec des chansons et beaucoup de joie.
Maintenant, les gens se réveillent le matin et pensent ce qu’ils vont
faire jusqu’au soir `, a déclaré une retraité.

Bien que le 1er mai est un jour férié en Arménie, le HKK était le seul
groupe politique à le célébrer avec un événement de grande envergure.
Les communistes arméniens étaient une force politique majeure dans les
années 1990, remportant environ 10 pour cent des voix aux élections
présidentielles et législatives. Cependant, leur influence a depuis
diminué de façon spectaculaire. Le HKK n’est pas représenté au
Parlement arménien depuis 2003.

vendredi 2 mai 2014,
Stéphane ©armenews.com