Author: Nalbandian Albert

LONG HISTORY OF THE DOCTORS OF DOOM

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July 7, 2007

DOCTORS have frequently been accomplices in politically motivated
repression, brutality and genocide, conducting inhumane experiments on
victims, participating in torture and directing programs to exterminate
the enemy. For no reason other than they had the power to do it at
the time, they have beaten, tortured and killed victims.

Political medical murderers reverse the process of patients seeking
help from a doctor, instead misusing their skills on vulnerable groups
in the name of nationalism or ideology.

Systematic participation of doctors in state terrorism began with the
Armenian genocide in Turkey in 1915. Medical personnel were directly
involved in the killings, often participating in torture. Behaeddin
Shakir and Mehmet Nazim established extermination squads staffed
by criminals.

Nazim, in one of the most misguided appointments in the history
of medicine, was professor of legal (ethical) medicine at Istanbul
Medical School.

Mehmed Resid was involved in the "deportation" of 120,000
Armenians. Resid’s brutality included nailing red-hot horseshoes on
the victim’s chest, and crucifying them on makeshift crosses.

The Armenian genocide provided the template for the Nazi holocaust,
leading to the most notorious example of medical complicity in state
abuse: Nazi doctors who participated in euthanasia and genocide,
of whom the most well known is Josef Mengele.

Japanese medical abuses were as bad as those of the German doctors. The
Imperial Army’s Unit 731 conducted unspeakably cruel experiments on
the people of Manchuria, infecting villages with anthrax, plague and
cholera, performing live vivisection – cutting out the heart or brain
from living victims, or burning them alive with jolts of electricity.

Involvement of doctors in state repression and abuse has, if anything,
escalated since 1945. Medical dictators running repressive regimes
include: the former cruel ruler of Haiti Papa Doc Duvalier, the Malawi
dictator Hastings Banda, Felix Houphouet-Boigny of the Ivory Coast,
and Bashar al-Assad of Syria.

The psychiatrist Radovan Karadzic, who led the Bosnian genocide
(1992-95) in which more than 200,000 people died, used training in
group therapy to formulate terror tactics and had his troops shell
the hospital where he worked.

There has been a rise in doctors leading terrorist groups, including
George Habash, a paediatrician and leader of the Popular Front for
the Liberation of Palestine, and Osama bin Laden’s personal physician,
Ayman al-Zawahiri, one of the world’s most wanted terrorists.

Why do doctors kill patients, or use their skills to participate in
horrendous experiments, torture or genocidal murder in the service
of the state or a political cause?

The British psychiatrist Humphrey Osmond described the three facets of
the medical role as sapiential, authoritarian and charismatic. All
doctors have these three factors to a varying degree in their
personality; when any factor is overarching, then problems occur.

Medicine attracts a certain kind of personality, one lured by the
power of life over death. Many clinicidal doctors have extremely
narcissistic personalities, a grandiose view of their capability and
an inability to accept they could be criticised or need help from
other doctors. Such doctors develop a God-complex, getting a thrill
out of ending suffering and by determining when a person dies. Two
such doctors would be Harold Shipman in Britain and Michael Swango
in the US, who between them killed 313 patients.

This narcissism explains the most puzzling aspect of clinicide,
doctors who cannot stop what they are doing. Such individuals, while
not necessarily psychopathic, go to extraordinary lengths to get what
they want.

Professor Robert Kaplan is a forensic psychiatrist in Wollongong and
Sydney, and honorary clinical associate professor at the Graduate
School of Medicine, Wollongong. His book Clinicide: the Story of
Medical Murder is in press.

VIKTOR DALLAKIAN IS CONVINCED THAT ARMENIAN AUTHORITIES HAVE MADE A
POLITICAL DECISION TO STOP BROADCASTING OF RADIO LIBERTY

YEREVAN, JULY 4, NOYAN TAPAN. RA MP Viktor Dallakian, at the July 4
press conference, said that the Armenian authorities have made a
political decision to stop the broadcasting of the Radio Liberty.

In his words, the events connected with the Radio Liberty that happened
at the NA special sitting were conditioned by the circumstance of
competition inside the power. The MP said that almost all issues placed
on the session agenda regarded the government program, while the
legislative package had nothing in common with the government’s
activity.

As V. Dallakian evaluated, the bill submitted by the government was
voted down on July 3 at the parliament as a result of combination of a
number of factors, people’s negative attitude, external factors,
parliamentary opposition’s being organized, the circumstance of
competition inside the power, and parliamentary majority’s being not
organized.

The MP said that before the 2008 presidential elections the authorities
will try to do everything for silencing the voice of the Radio Liberty,
and it is not excluded that a new bill will be submitted to the NA in
September.

In V. Dallakian’s words, though the Board of the Public Television can
solve the issue of depriving the Liberty of air on its own, it will be
afraid of much stir.

PRESS RELEASE
Catholicosate of Cilicia
Communication and Information Department
Contact: V.Rev.Fr.Krikor Chiftjian, Communications Officer
Tel: (04) 410001, 410003
Fax: (04) 419724
E- mail: [email protected]
Web:

PO Box 70 317
Antelias-Lebanon

Armenian version: nian.htm

HIS HOLINESS ARAM I RECEIVES THE REPRESENTATIVE
OF PARTRIARCH SFEIR

His Holiness Aram I received Hares Shehab, the representative of Cardinal
Mar Nasrallah Sfier, Patriarch of the Maronite Church, in Antelias on July
2. Mr. Shehab is also the chairman of the Christian-Muslim Dialogue
Committee.

The Pontiff and his guest discussed the recent political and inter-faith
dialoque developments. Shehab also passed on a lunch invitation from
Patriarch Sfeir to His Holiness.

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The Armenian Catholicosate of Cilicia is one of the two Catholicosates of
the Armenian Orthodox Church. For detailed information about the Ecumenical
activities of the Cilician Catholicosate, you may refer to the web page of
the Catholicosate, The Cilician
Catholicosate, the administrative center of the church is located in
Antelias , Lebanon .

ADDRESS OF RAKEL DINK TO THE COURT

AZG Armenian Daily
04/07/2007

Your Honour the President of the Court and the Honorable Judges,

My story beging with the Armenian Varto tribe which is one of the
1915 left overs. I was born in 1959 into the Armenian Varto tribe
which was in Mardin borders; in Sirnak district now. Today the town is
called Yolagzi. The name Varto omes from my grand grandfather’s name,
Vartan. The remaining of the tribe migrated to Ýstanbul in 1978. Until
migration, their life in the village, and then in the city was spent
by struggling at the courts against the fraud deeds that the landlords
of the neighbouing villages manufactured. These neighbor villages
were built on our lands. They were beaten, wounded and miraculously
survived murder attempts. My father lived an honorable life without
denying his roots and religion. He passed away in Brussels three
years ago, with his mind and soul worried about his land, of which
the trials stil continue. His children promised him that they would
continue the struggle. He never acted cowardly, was never lazy, never
laid an evil eye on other’s work and never imposed us with animosity.

I met with my beloved husband, whom I used to call Cutag, Hrant
Dink in a boarding school; we grew up together; we got married. They
stripped up our boarding school from us. With the help of Jesus Christ
we overcame all the obstacles, hardships. We were worried at the
problems of our country together. And now, I cry with a deep sadness.

Until today we were treated humiliated, insulted for being Armenians;
we heard people use Armenian as a curse. We heard it and we stil hear
it from the newspapers, TVs, birth registration offices; from public
servants to the highest authorities. Sometimes we were treated as if we
were not citizens of this country, but migrants from somewhere else. We
still witness all these and this structuring and this undestanding;
this darkness continues to create murderer from babies.

Verse 21:3 says "God wishes rightfullness and justice rather than
sacrifies. Today, we see the babies who became murderers here; where
is the darkness that created them?

The darkness I point to is not anyone unknown. You can find pieces
of this darkness in Governorship, in Gendarmarie, in Armed Forces, in
National Intelligence Agency, in Police, in Government, in Opposition
Part, in parties that do not have a seat in the parliament, an deven
in the media and the non-governmental organizations. Their names,
their positions are known.

They continuously create murderers from babies and they do it to serve
Turkey. We have seen them in front of AGOS right after the Sabiha
Gokcen article and in front of the court houses where my husband was
being tried. But for some reason, justice and judiciary cannot reach
to them, do not want to reach to them.

Because, they know that if they dig further they will see that this
darkness exists in them also.

Therefore, if you are not from this darkness and do not approve it,
do not agree with them be courageous enough to go deeper and pull
down all the barriers that was put on this case. Be the instrument
of the God’s justice; so that Turkey can be happy and this becomes
the starting point of bright days for Turkey.

Your Honor, my husband was tried for he wrote, for he thought and
spoke. As an innocent man, due to this understanding of the state he
was found guilty. I believe that the expressions of the state bears
separatism, insult, degradation; it encourages and multiplies the baby
murderers. In short, the source of this spring is the perception and
discourse. I am compliant against this discourse and the to the ones
who speak it out.

I, as a member of the people who live on these soil since Noah, want
to feel and see my children and myself as Armenian Turkish citizens,
as equal citizens.

Our proverb says "One who denies his origin is a sinner". What would
you expect from the one who denies or hides his origin? How can you
establish a strong building, a good character over a faulty base? I
ask you, can you trust him? Does it mean that we are enemies for not
denying our origin?

My beloved husband worked hard, never lied, never acted unjustly,
never said a word against his country either here or abroad. He was
a defender of truth and he lived as a true son and a true citizen. In
return, he received the traitors bullet

Whatever the justice you will see fit, it will not bring my husband
back. None of the rulings will be as equal as my loss of my husband. If
the justice is the foundation of the land, then I am in search of this
justice. I want Turkey to build upon this base. I want to see it not
in words, I want to see it in daily life, in discourse. Therefore,
I demand that all the responsible ones and the authorities declare:
"we could not, we did not want to protect your husband, our citizen. We
knowingly committed a crime, we apologize.

I demand from honorable court which is the representative of the state
that all the criminals receive the pusihment they deserve. I feel no
hatred to any of them; on the contrary I find all of them miserable and
I feel pity for them. I pray mercy for them with the love and justice
of Jesus Christ, one who knows all, sees all. I wish that with the
help of the Holy Spirit, they can feel that they need this mercy. And
I request that you act and decide in line with your responsibility.

With my due respect,
Rakel Dink.

–Boundary_(ID_D8/v466h/WFPxA4yYsa5pg)–

"LIBERTY" WILL NOT BE CLOSED DOWN

A1+
[05:02 pm] 03 July, 2007

The draft law on impending "close down" of Radio Free Europe / Radio
Liberty failed for the absence of enough quorums. It failed with 63
for, 0 against and 2 abstention votes. The draft law on "Radio and
TV" was not adopted. At least 66 deputies were to participate in the
voting and the absence of even one voter played a vital role for Radio
Free Europe. The opposition boycotted the bill with the initiative
of Viktor Dallakyan and did not participate in the voting.

Thus, nothings threaten the broadcast of the Radio Liberty at least
at the present moment.

OSCE-SUPPORTED REPORT RECOMMENDS REVISION OF STATE MIGRATION STRATEGY AND LEGISLATION IN ARMENIA

Trend News Agency, Azerbaijan
July 3 2007

( OSCE ) – The findings of an OSCE Office in Yerevan-supported
study on migration legislation and administration in Armenia were
discussed at a meeting today attended by experts from key Government
and international institutions.

The 50-page report highlights topics such as management of migration
flows to and from Armenia, harmonization of border management with
international standards, labour migration, data collection, protection
and monitoring. It also introduces best practices from other countries,
with a special focus on the Czech Republic, which recently reformed
its migration laws.

Local and international experts made specific recommendations
to improve migration management and enforcement of migration
legislation. They suggested better co-ordination of activities in
the field of international migration through further consolidation
of immigration and emigration legislation, and introducing clear
delineation of responsibilities for the various state agencies and
departments involved in migration regulation. They also advised the
speeding up of the adoption of the Law on Regulation of Overseas
Employment.

"This report, together with two Office-commissioned surveys on
labour migration from Armenia, conducted by the local non-government
organization Advanced Social Technologies, will strengthen the
capacity of the national institutions in migration management and will
contribute to the protection of migrants’ rights," said Sven Holdar,
Democratization Officer at the OSCE Office in Yerevan.

The report, which is available in Armenian and English, was also
supported by the British Embassy in Armenia.

ARMENIAN PAPER SAYS DRAFT LAWS AIMED AT BANNING RADIO LIBERTY BROADCASTS

Armenian newspaper 168 Zham
Yerevan
30 Jun 07

Excerpt from report by Armine Avetyan in Armenian newspaper 168
Zham published on 30 June and headlined "Slaves against freedom"
and subheaded "The first step against ‘Liberty’ has been made":

Yesterday [28 June] the National Assembly [parliament] passed in the
first reading the draft laws that will help terminate the broadcasting
of the Radio Liberty [Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, RFE/RL] on the
territory of Armenia. The drafts were adopted by 79 votes in favour,
16 against and one abstention.

The draft laws will be voted in the second reading over 24 hours,
and there is no doubt that MPs who come to the parliament just to
push buttons will pass them today because people who do not care for
freedom, do not need free speech either, neither do they care for
the [Radio] Liberty. All button-pushers want is for the government –
that thinks for them – to last as long as possible.

"I wish to explain why I am sure that those are politically-motivated
bills and are ordered at 26 Baghramyan Street – the presidential
office. What was the need to debate those bills in an extraordinary
session [of the parliament]?" Yerevan Press Club expert Mesrop
Harutyunyan asked at yesterday’s news conference.

Amendments to two laws are debated at the National Assembly’s
extraordinary session: the law on TV and radio and the law on state
fees. Authors of the amendments suggest that the Armenian Public
Radio and TV should not have a right to allow any media outlet to
broadcast on its frequencies. Currently, the Public [TV and Radio]
decides on its own whether it should allow others to air on its
frequencies. After the law is passed, the Public [TV and Radio] will
not have the right to allow other broadcasters use its frequencies.

Under the amendments to the law on state fees, TV and radio companies
will have to pay 70,000 drams [about 200 dollars] for each programme
of other broadcasters aired on their frequencies. And since programmes
of only one "other broadcaster" – the Radio Liberty – are aired on
the Public [TV and Radio], there is nothing else left than to admit
that the goal of those draft laws is to terminate the broadcasting
of the Radio Liberty on the territory of Armenia.

"Usually, extraordinary sessions [of parliament] are called to
debate laws that are urgent and crucial for the society," Mesrop
Harutyunyan says. "Now, I am asking [President] Robert Kocharyan and
[Prime Minister] Serzh Sargsyan, who have drafted these amendments. I
am not asking [Justice Minister] Gevorg Danielyan because he is just
a doer. What crucial and urgent needs of the society do these draft
laws meet so that they had to be debated in an extraordinary session?"

[Passage omitted: if included on the agenda of regular sessions,
the draft laws would be discussed in parliamentary committees and by
public before being adopted]

No TV company was present at the yesterday’s news conference condemning
this draft laws. Neither a radio company was present. This fact
led to conclude that TV and radio companies were instructed from 26
Baghramyan Street not to cover the news conference. This means that
electronic media is censored by the residents of this address.

"The authorities intend to fist of all impede the broadcasting of
the Radio Liberty," Ashot Melikyan, chairman of the committee for
protection of free speech, said yesterday. "I can compare this with the
shutdown of the A1 Plus [TV company]. High-ranking officials, however,
had promised during our meetings that any draft law on information
sector would be widely discussed before debated in parliament. [Former
Justice Minister] Davit Harutyunyan, in particular, gave such a
promise. These promises too are not kept. Also, OSCE representative
on freedom of the media Miklos Haraszti’s calls not to adopt these
amendments are ignored too."

The government explains that the amendments are needed to ensure
equality in economic competition in the broadcasting sector.

[Passage omitted: other views on the issue]

Our authorities have never worried about the channels that rebroadcast
[foreign] programmes because they have never caused problems for them;
they air programmes about Armenia very rarely. The Radio Liberty,
in contrast, airs programmes that deal with the Armenian domestic
and political life, and this poised danger to the authorities.

[Passage omitted: the president will undoubtedly sign the drafts
into law]

So, Armenia will become the next country following Uzbekistan,
Turkmenistan, Belarus and Azerbaijan to ban the broadcasting of the
Radio Liberty.

MURDERER OF TURKISH JOURNALIST HRANT DINK TO STAND TRIAL IN ISTANBUL

Focus Information Agency, Bulgaria
July 1 2007

Istanbul. The criminal proceedings against Ogun Samast, the alleged
murderer of journalist Hrant Dink, start on Monday, the Turkish
media write.

Hrant Dink, who is of Armenian origin, was murdered on Jan. 19th in
Istanbul outside the editor’s office of the Agos newspaper. The trial
against Ogun Samast (17) and the other 12 defendants will be tried
behind closed doors, because Samast is under age. The trial will be
public once Samast turns 18.

The prosecutor’s office demanded a murder sentence of 18 to 24 years in
prison and an additional sentence of 8.5 to 18 years’ imprisonment for
being a member in a terrorist organization and illegal arms possession.

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l y a au moins deux manières de voir ce dossier. La première est simple : il
s’agit ni plus ni moins d’une affaire d’Etat. Le signe le plus évident de sa
gravité, dont nul ne peut encore dire si elle est terminée en dépit du voeu
exprimé par le premier ministre, c’est l’émotion provoquée dans la classe
politique, chacun voulant se prononcer et condamner l’outrage. Le président
de la République lui-même a été contraint de réagir. La réprobation, à
gauche comme à droite, est unanime. Un tel consensus est bien la marque d’un
dossier touchant autant à l’identité nationale qu’au respect de nos règles
les plus civiles.

De quoi s’agit-il ? L’un des plus hauts responsables de l’UMP, Patrick
Devedjian, discutant dans la rue avec deux collègues, a qualifié Anne-Marie
Comparini, élue du MoDem, de "salope". Une caméra et un micro passaient par
là. L’interjection a été happée, isolée parmi un flot de décibels, puis
aussitôt diffusée sur Internet. Et ce "salope" a fait vibrer tout ce que la
France a su préserver en matière d’indignation nationale.
Vous avez dit salope ? Vous l’avez dit en privé ? Vous serez pendu
publiquement ! "Ce n’est pas une façon de parler aux femmes, ni à qui que ce
soit d’autre", a rappelé Nicolas Sarkozy, ami de la concorde et du beau
langage. "Il ne faut jamais insulter les gens et encore moins les élus", a
observé François Fillon, adepte du rappel aux bonnes règles. "Il n’est pas
tolérable qu’on puisse qualifier ainsi une femme, politique ou pas", a
relevé la garde des sceaux Rachida Dati. La gauche, pour une fois tout
entière unie, a condamné fermement ce dérapage jugé indigne. Il en va
visiblement de la cause des femmes et du respect des grands équilibres
moraux du pays.
L’autre manière de considérer l’écart de langage de Patrick Devedjian relève
du relativisme. Après tout, se dira-t-on, le crime n’est pas pendable.
L’injure mérite moins d’anathèmes qu’un détournement de fonds publics ou
qu’une mauvaise politique appliquée en toute rigueur à une ville ou à un
pays. Il ne s’agit que d’un juron parmi les millions proférés chaque jour en
France. Du coup, des excuses répétées, un coup de fil à la victime et un
communiqué plein de regrets auraient dû suffire à calmer un emballement très
emballé.
Mais le mal était fait. Le secrétaire général délégué de l’UMP était devenu,
en quarante-huit heures, le salaud parfait. Pauvre de lui ! Ce "salope !" le
poursuivra davantage qu’une condamnation avec privation des droits civiques.
L’injure figure pourtant dans tous les bons dictionnaires. Faut-il
l’interdire ? L’abolir par décret ? En appeler définitivement à la
bienséance ? Faut-il aseptiser la langue ? Se boucher les oreilles au nom de
la langue de bois ?
Le Dictionnaire des gros mots de Patricia Vigerie (tiens, une femme), paru
chez Favre, nous apprend que salope (pages 193-194) s’est installé dans
notre langue vers 1600 en combinant les mots sale et hoppe (venant de huppe,
oiseau réputé pour sa saleté) pour désigner une femme sale, une souillon. Le
terme s’est ensuite sexualisé comme il arrive souvent dans la langue
française, et salope a désigné une femme dévergondée. Bref, salope marque le
mépris et charrie un jugement moral. Et comme rien n’est simple, salope peut
aussi qualifier un homme. Dans ce cas, l’injure cherche à disqualifier la
virilité de la personne visée.
On sait, par les livres d’histoire, que les hommes politiques sont souvent
grossiers et qu’ils ont toujours eu recours à l’injure, en privé comme en
public. Et les femmes ? Ne leur arrive-t-il jamais de laisser échapper un
gros mot ? De traiter un collègue de "gros con" ? D’en qualifier un autre de
"connard" ? Non, bien sûr ! Continuons donc d’accabler M. Devedjian et de
parler comme il nous plaît…

Article paru dans l’édition du 03.07.07

Armenian tennis players participate in an international tournament in
Alicante

30.06.2007 14:40

An international tennis tournament started in the Spanish city of
Alicante today. Armenian tennis players Hayk Zoranyan and Harutyun
Sofyan will participate in the tournament together with 40 other
sportsmen. The trainer of the Armenian team is Vahe Avetisyan.