Author: Nalchajian Markos

EXCLUSIVE: SHAMEFUL OVER SENSITIVITY
Author: Gregg Bemis

Source: The Family Security Foundation, Inc.
Family Security Matters, NJ
May 4 2007

When truth surrenders to fears of insensitivity, there are dark days
ahead. FSM Contributing Editor Gregg Bemis studies the absurd lengths
to which "sensitivity" has gone, both in the U.S. and throughout the
West. Isn’t it clear by now that cultural diversity is the opposite
of inclusiveness? Gregg has answers.

In England in the year 2000, Mr. Justice Gray wrote a 300-page
opinion destroying David Irving’s ridiculous lawsuit against author
Deborah Lipstadt for criticizing Irving’s insanity at denying the
Holocaust. Now a school in England has shown the ultimate cowardice,
or head in the sand if you prefer, by removing the Holocaust from the
history curriculum of one of their schools. The reason: because the
continued recognition and teaching of this monstrous black moment of
history is "insensitive" to the feelings of Britain’s Muslim community
who deny the occurrence of the Holocaust. What total rot!

What have we come to? It is bad enough that we have become so
skittish that any truth that offends cannot be expressed verbally
or in writing. Any action, no matter how innocently undertaken,
if it offends is not allowed. I’m not talking about courtesy versus
offensive rudeness. I’m talking about history and realities. When our
Ambassador to Armenia inadvertently used the word "genocide" referring
to a dark period in the history of Turkish Armenian relations, he was
sacked. This is despite the fact that the U.S. Congress has from time
to time had bills of recognition of the fact up for voting.

When I attended Stanford University what seems like 100 years
ago, the student body, such as it was, was fully integrated and
inter-related. Now the University in its fervent attempt to be
politically correct, and to recognize diversity, has created "theme"
houses and "theme" organizations thereby driving peoples and cultures
into separate camps. This emphasizes dissimilarities rather than
likenesses. Does this create harmony? No. Does this create acceptance
of multi-cultures? No. It puts a premium on recognizing and supporting
differences, separating not bringing together.

Does America resolve its current problems of integration and
acceptance of minorities by ignoring our early history of abuse of
Native Americans or of our participation in the slave trade? I don’t
think so. In fact the honor we have bestowed on President Lincoln for
his efforts to abolish slavery and hold the Union together play a major
part in any history of America. And surely the special considerations
we have bestowed on Native Americans, whether too much or too little,
certainly do not derive from attempting to sweep our history under
the rug.

Recently PBS has been doing a series on the Muslims, their culture
and their religion. Two renowned videographers with encouragement from
PBS produced an exemplary portrayal of the differences and conflicts
between the moderate versus the extreme sides of the culture. The
ever present, mind numbing, politically correct, left wing upper
management faction at PBS killed it. Reportedly they didn’t want
to offend the extremists. In what possible way is that helping to
educate Americans or support the right to diverse thinking?

So, coming back to the United Kingdom, have things become so scary,
so out of control in Britain that one of the greatest monstrosities
of the 20th century has to be erased from the history books? The
Holocaust was a fact, not a myth. In its calculation and practice,
it was one of the most extreme examples of "man’s inhumanity to man".

This decision no longer to include this historical fact in the British
school curriculum is a shocking reflection of how far under the tent
the camel has pushed its nose. When truth surrenders to fears of
insensitivity, there are dark days ahead indeed.

FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributing Editor Gregg Bemis is a writer
for The New Mexican where this article first appeared.

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NYC: BARNES & NOBLE IMBROGLIO OVER ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
Submitted by Bill Weinberg

World War 4 Report, NY
May 4 2007

First-time author Margaret Ajemian Ahnert’s May 1 appearance at a
Barnes & Noble store on New York’s Upper East Side to promote her
new memoir on survivng the Armenian genocide, The Knock at the Door,
was disrupted by hecklers who shouted and passed out leaflets denying
the genocide occurred.

Ahnert’s book relates how her mother survived the genocide as a
teenager during World War I and eventually resettled in the United
States. "Here I was trying to tell the story of my mother, not making
a political statement," she said. "It’s a mother-daughter story, it’s
how it affected my life. It’s not just about the Armenian genocide,
it’s about my mother growing up, my life, and events in her life
that affected me. It’s a mother-daughter memoir. I’m not making any
historical statements."

The crowd apparently included such notables as former governor Hugh
Carey and the Manhattan district attorney, Robert Morgenthau, whose
grandfather, Henry Morgenthau, was ambassador to the Ottoman Empire
from 1913 to 1916. But trouble broke out in the Q&A session.

"Someone in the middle of the back of the room stood up and said,
‘That’s not so,’" Ahnert said. "Five or six men started to pass
out fliers of denial. I thought, oh, my goodness sakes, it’s like
Holocaust deniers. I was completely taken aback."

Audience member Mary Occhino, the host of a call-in program on Sirius
satellite radio, said some of the people were shouting, "This is a
lie, this is a lie, this never happened." Added Occhino: "I got up
and said, ‘Enough.’ "Her mother lived through the genocide-that’s
all she said. They said, ‘That’s a lie, that’s a lie, that never
happened.’ But this story is not about genocide; it’s about a mother’s
love for her daughter."

One man was arrested, identified by the police as Erdem Sahin of Staten
Island, charged with resisting arrest, a misdemeanor punishable by
up to a year in jail, and lesser charges including disorderly conduct.

At a hearing the following day in Manhattan Criminal Court, Judge Rita
Mella adjourned the charges in contemplation of dismissal, meaning
the case will be dropped in six months if Sahin is not arrested again.

Sahin said afterward that he and his fellow protesters were angry
that France had "made it illegal to say there was no genocide." The
French National Assembly approved the law last fall. "We realize that
if we don’t do something, we will soon have no rights," he said. "We
are fighting for freedom of speech." When asked about his views
on the Armenian genocide, he said, "Honestly, I’m not a historian,
but historians say there is no genocide."

In recent years, Turkish writers who have referred to genocide have
faced reprisal. A legal claim against the novelist Elif Shafak was
dropped last fall, but she cut short a six-city US tour promoting
her sixth novel, The Bastard of Istanbul.

Orhan Pamuk, who won the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature, was also sued
by a nationalist group for referring to genocide in a Swiss interview,
and in January, Hrant Dink, a newspaper editor who had challenged the
official Turkish version of the genocide, was fatally shot as he left
his office in Istanbul.

A spokeswoman for Barnes & Noble said passing out pamphlets violated
the company’s no-solicitation policy: "They were asked to stop passing
out leaflets. They refused. They were jeering the author.

They were asked to sit down and they refused." That was when the
police were called, she said.

Ahnert said she had appeared on college campuses and at a literary
festival in Florida with no problems. "This is something I hope I
don’t have to look forward to," she said. (NYT via IHT, May 3)

Now let’s see, how many people deserve to be dissed in this sorry
episode? Let’s count.

1. Erdem Sahin and his fellow revisionist hoodlums. (Of course!) But
also:

2. The French, whose absurd law criminzalizing denial of the genocide
only paradoxically vindicates the deniers by making them free-speech
martyrs.

3. Barnes & Noble, whose "no soliciting" policy also bottlenecks
free speech. The hypetrophy of their mall-like "bookstores" has made
B&N the equivalent of the town square in this corporate-dominated
age, and they should be made to take some responsibility for
that. Handing out leaflets (even vile genocide-denying leaflets) is
First Amendment-protected activity, and when B&N dominates intellectual
space to the degree that it does in New York, the Bill of Rights must
have some force of law on its turf. However, it should also be noted
that as soon as Sahin and his pals started to shout down Ahnert,
they violated her free speech rights, and crossed the line from
dissent to mere thuggery.

4. The New York Times, whose account of the incident states:

Many historians say that the Ottoman Empire was responsible for the
death of more than one million people around 1915 in a campaign
intended to eliminate the Armenian population throughout what is
now Turkey.

Would they use such appallingly neutral language about the Nazi
Holocaust? Of course not.

Why is that?

ARMENIAN AND AZERI STUDENTS CLASH ON MAY DAY IN MOSCOW
By Adam Klesczewski The Moscow News

Moscow News (Russia)
May 4, 2007

A mass fight between the students of Azerbaijani and Armenianorigin
took place at the People Friendship University of Russiaduring the
May Day celebrations in Moscow on Tuesday.

Two groups of young men with national flags of Azerbaijanand Armenia
cried out "Karabakh! Karabakh!".

The fight started during an event titled "Planet South West"held
at the university on May 1. Nagorno Karabakh, a republicdisputed by
the two countries, was on maps of Armenia andAzerbaijan that hang in
pavilions of both republics.

According to a Moscow police spokesman, around 3 p.m. fightsstarted
to break out among different groups of the audience, makingthem hard
to suppress. Approximately one hundred people took partin the brawl,
police estimate.

The fight was subsequently stopped by the local securityguards and
the OMON riot police, however the participants fled to adormitory and
continued fighting, reports say. One man washospitalized with a gun
wound. Several others also received minorwounds but were treated on
the spot. Over 20 people were detained,all of them foreign citizens,
police said.

Nagorno-Karabakh, a de facto independent republic in the SouthCaucasus,
predominately populated by Armenians while officiallybeing a part
of Azerbaijan, became a source of a violent disputebetween Armenia
and Azerbaijan in the late 1980s, culminating inthe Nagorno-Karabakh
War. Since the end of the war in 1994, most ofthe republic, as well
as several regions of Azerbaijan around itremain under joint Armenian
and NKR Defense Forces control.

ARMENIAN SECURITY SERVICES SUSPECTED OF SPYING ON OPPOSITION LEADER
By Emil Danielyan

Eurasia Daily Monitor, DC
May 1 2007

Armenia’s intensifying parliamentary election campaign has been
jolted by a scandal over the secret recording of a recent confidential
meeting between a top opposition leader and a Yerevan-based Western
diplomat. Details of that conversation have been controversially
disclosed by a pro-establishment newspaper, in what is widely seen
as a government effort to discredit Artur Baghdasarian, the former
parliament speaker whose Orinats Yerkir (Country of Law) party is a
major opposition contender in the May 12 elections.

Baghdasarian’s meeting with the number two figure at the British
Embassy in Armenia, held at a popular Yerevan restaurant last
February, reportedly focused on the authorities’ handling of the
upcoming vote. The Russian-language paper, Golos Armenii, claims to
have received audio of that conversation from unknown individuals,
publishing much of its purported transcript on April 21 and April 26.

The disclosed content of the conversation was hardly sensational,
with Baghdasarian reportedly urging the European Union to express
serious concern at what he described as government plans to rig the
elections. He reportedly stated that they can already be considered
fraudulent because the government is seriously restricting opposition
access to the electronic media and intimidating and bribing voters.

The diplomat was quoted as responding that the EU is unlikely to do
that at the moment because the Armenian leadership is very careful
and canny in trying to retain control over the country’s next
parliament. "I suppose that they are smarter and wiser than we are …

There has to be some blatant violation in order for the EU to come
up with such a statement," he said, according to Golos Armenii. The
diplomat was also said to have complained that of all major EU states
having diplomatic missions in Yerevan, only Britain and Germany
seriously care about Armenia’s democratization.

Orinats Yerkir and its leader swiftly denounced the secret recording,
illegal under Armenian law, saying that it is part of a "well-prepared
smear campaign" waged by the ruling regime against the party. They
argued that the newspaper report did not expose anything new or
extraordinary as Baghdasarian has repeatedly stressed in his public
pronouncements the need for Armenia to finally have an election
recognized as free and fair by the West. The British Embassy also
condemned the recording as "dishonest and deplorable." In an April
26 statement, the embassy said British diplomats regularly meet with
a wide range of Armenian politicians in order to have "as complete
and objective a view as possible of the political process."

That is a "normal and accepted practice of any embassy anywhere in
the world," it said. Both the embassy and Baghdasarian charged that
the content of the conversation in question was distorted but did
not elaborate.

Golos Armenii and other supporters of President Robert Kocharian
directed their fury at Baghdasarian, saying that he behaved dishonestly
and unpatriotically by seeking EU criticism of his country months
before election day. Kocharian went further, accusing his former
protege of committing high treason on April 27. "For me, this is a
real manifestation of treason," he told students at Yerevan State
University. "That manifestation is all the more ugly given that
it was done at his own initiative." Baghdasarian’s response to the
attack was equally strongly worded. "The traitors," he told reporters,
"are those who rig elections and disgrace the fatherland."

The bitter exchange was quite a change from the relationship that
existed between the two men before Orinats Yerkir was forced to
quit Armenia’s governing coalition one year ago. Kocharian had
gone to great lengths to ensure that Baghdasarian would be elected
parliament speaker after Orinats Yerkir finished second in the last
general elections, held in May 2003. That fuelled speculation that
Kocharian could handpick Baghdasarian, now 38, as his successor after
completing his second and final term in office in early 2008. Their
personal rapport subsequently deteriorated due to Orinats Yerkir’s
growing criticism of the government (in which it was represented)
and conciliatory line on the Armenian opposition.

The populist party, which has a pro-Western foreign policy agenda,
is now thought to be one of the country’s most popular opposition
groups. The latest attempt to discredit it suggests that Kocharian and
Prime Minister Serge Sarkisian are worried about its possible strong
showing in next week’s polls. Yet the disclosure of Baghdasarian’s
meeting with the British diplomat is unlikely to seriously affect
the ambitious ex-speaker’s popularity rating, not least because
few Armenians buy into state propaganda. Instead, it increases the
possibility of Orinats Yerkir’s involvement in post-election street
protests planned by other, more radical opposition forces.

The scandal has also cast a fresh spotlight on the role of the
National Security Service (NSS), the Armenian successor to the KGB,
in political processes in the country. The feared security agency
marks the anniversaries of the establishment of Bolshevik Russia’s
VChK secret police as a professional holiday, and its function of
political policing has been increasingly obvious in recent years.

Kocharian’s office, for example, revealed last December the
existence of a hitherto unknown NSS division charged with protecting
"constitutional order." Many Armenian politicians, journalists and
other government critics have long suspected that their phones
are illegally wiretapped by the NSS. Few of them doubt that NSS
agents secretly recorded Baghdasarian’s meeting. Kocharian sought to
disprove this dominant view, saying that another opposition leader,
Aram Karapetian, got hold of audio of the conversation before Golos
Armenii. The radical oppositionist, who was interrogated by the NSS
on April 25, believes that the ex-KGB deliberately sent the recording
to his office to deflect suspicions about its involvement.

In any case, the whole affair is a serious cause for concern for
local commentators, human rights activists and probably Yerevan-based
Western diplomats. As the pro-opposition newspaper Zhamanak Yerevan
editorialized on April 26, "Nobody can now be sure that there are no
‘bugs’ planted in their apartment, that their phone conversations
are not wire-tapped, that their every step is not watched."

(Haykakan Zhamanak, April 28; RFE/RL Armenia Report, April 27, April
23; Golos Armenii, April 21, April 26; Statement by the British
embassy, April 26; Zhamanak Yerevan, April 26)

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Dioce san News
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PRIMATE ATTENDS GLENDALE CITY GENOCIDE COMMEMORATION

On Tuesday April, 24th, 2007, His Eminence Abp. Hovnan Derderian,
Primate of the Western Diocese, accompanied by former primate
Abp. Vatche Hovsepian and Very Rev. Fr. Baret Yeretzian, attended the
Glendale City Armenian Genocide Commemoration at the Alex Theatre in
Glendale.
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ARMENIAN-EPISCOPAL ECUMENICAL SERVICE HELD IN GLENDALE TO REMEMBER
VICTIMS OF GENOCIDE

On Wednesday, April 25th, 2007, continuing a tradition which began
last year, a joint ecumenical service was held at St. Marks Episcopal
Church in Glendale in remembrance of the Victims of the Armenian
Genocide.
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PRIMATE PRESENTS KHATCHKAR TO GLENDALE ADVENTIST HOSPITAL

On Wednesday, April 25th, 2007 Their Eminences Abp. Hovnan Derderain
and Abp. Vatche Hovsepian attended the grand opening of the West
Tower, a new wing of the Glendale Adventist Hospital.
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DIOCESAN DELEGATION MEETS WITH EPISCOPAL CHURCH REGARDING 80TH
ANNIVERSARY OF THE WESTERN DIOCESE

On Thursday, April 26, 2007, His Eminence Archbishop Hovnan Derderian,
Primate of the Western Diocese, and a delegation of representatives
met with officials from the Episcopal Archdiocese of Los Angeles at
St. John Episcopal Church.
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PRIMATE TO CELEBRATE DIVINE LITURGY AT ST. JOHN GARABED ARMENIAN
CHURCH OF HOLLYWOOD
Will honor three families with the St. Nerses Shnorhali Medal

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PRIMATE TO ATTEND DANCE ENSEMBLE ANNIVERSARY

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DIOCESE TO HONOR CONSUL GENERAL ARMEN LILOYAN

On Monday, April 30th, 2007, His Excellency Consul General of the
Republic of Armenia in Los Angeles, Mr. Armen Liloyan will be honored
in a private reception to be hosted at the Western Diocese
Headquarters.
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DIOCESE WELCOMES ARA ABRAHAMYAN

On Tuesday, May 1st, 2007, Mr. Ara Abrahamyan will be welcomed at a
private dinner event to be hosted by the Western Diocese.
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Upcoming Events
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5/2: 80th Annual Diocesan Assembly
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5/11: YerazArt in Concert at the Western Diocese
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Is everything OK with the state of crime in Karabakh?

28-04-2007 12:09:31 – KarabakhOpen

The KarabakhOpen asked the chair of the Committee of Defense,
Security and Law Enforcement Rudik Martirosyan to comment on the
rumored criminal skirmish in Stepanakert.

The member of parliament said the police is especially cautious about
statements on such matters because there are a number of circumstances
which require additional investigation.

"It is early to give an evaluation. It is the business of the law
enforcement bodies. I can comment only after charges are brought,"
said Rudik Martirosyan. By the way, a few days ago a major skirmish
involving weapon happened in Stepanakert, there were no casualties,
but some people were detained.

In answer to the question why the Office of Prosecutor General has been
checking intensively different offices and organizations over the past
few months, Rudik Martirosyan said: "The Office of Prosecutor General
checks the offices for the protection of the national interests. There
were reports and complaints and the Office of Prosecutor General
started the checking."

TURKEY SHOULD CONFESS ARMENIAN AND BULGARIAN GENOCIDES
By Olga Yoncheva

Assyrian International News Agency
April 27 2007

Turkey should give official recognition of the Armenian genocide
committed by the Turkish state and army in the period 1915-1918,
insist 45 Bulgarian intellectuals and public figures in a declaration
distributed by BTA.

In the declaration the intellectuals insist also on the recognition
of the genocide of Bulgarians in 1903-1913.

According to the authors of the document, Turkey should take the
responsibility and should apologize for the 5-century yoke over
Bulgarians, for the committed crimes and mass murders of the
Bulgarians, who lived in its territories due to the Berlin contract.

It should also compensate the refugees’ heirs for their suffering
and the stolen property.

The declaration continues that the contemporary Turkish state,
which emphasizes itself as heir of the Ottoman Empire and seeks its
700-century "cultural and historical heritage" in a number of states
including Bulgaria, should consider itself morally obliged to admit
the committed genocides against Bulgarians, Armenians, Assyrians and
other nations.

"We call for the Bulgarian parliament to follow the example and the
active measures of the international community and of influential
constitutional bodies around the world, which recognized the
international crime "Armenian genocide".

Among these countries are: Switzerland, Poland, Slovakia, Lebanon,
Canada, Argentina, Germany, Belgium, France, Netherlands, Italy,
Greece, Uruguay, Sweden, Russia, Venezuela, Cyprus, Ukraine, the
Vatican, Lithuania and more than 30 US states, concludes the document.

The declaration will be submitted to the Armenian embassy in Bulgaria
and to the Human Rights Committee of the European parliament.

Signatories of the document are: prof. Georgi Markov, prof. Georgi
Bakalov, Lyubka Rondova, Ivan Granitski, Anton Donchev, Leda Mileva,
Lilyana Stefanova, Acad. Vassil Gyuzelev, Michail Konstantinov, prof.
Grisha Ostrovski, prof. Krikor Azaryan, prof. Sarkis Sarkisyan, prof.
Norair Nurikyan, Angel Vagenstein, Haigashot Agassyan.

KOCHARIAN-ALIYEV MEETING DUE IN SAINT PETERSBURG JUNE 10

PanARMENIAN.Net
27.04.2007 15:05 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ During a meeting with the students of the Yerevan
State University Armenian President Robert Kocharian said his meeting
with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev is scheduled for June 10
in Saint Petersburg. However, the Armenian President is not very
optimistic about the meeting. "The latest talks of the Ministers
proceeded in a calm atmosphere and this gave ground for optimistic
statements," the RA leader said.

FACTS OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE IGNORED FOR TOO LONG
Armen Rostami

Daily Sundial, CA
California State University, Northridge
April 26 2007

PrintEmail Article Tools Page 1 of 2 next > On a hot bloody day in
April, when the sun was causing red oasis in the sandy deserts of
Turkey and Syria, many Armenian intellectuals disappeared and never
came back. As it turned out later, they were among the one and a
half million that were slaughtered in the first genocide of the
20th century, "The Armenian Genocide." Although this massacre was
preplanned and derived by predetermined motives, it was not referred
to as genocide until the Turks started denying this clear historical
fact. Armenian genocide should be recognized because denying it
ignores the historical reality and outweighs the benefits for the
Turkish government.

Genocide is a misanthropic act that is intended to accomplish certain
incentives of a group of people through mass killing and extermination
of a race. The word itself stems from two Latin words, "gens" meaning
race or people and "cid" meaning "to destroy."

Genocides are generally composed of eight stages, and the last stage
is typically Denial. The eight stages of genocides are classification,
symbolization, dehumanization, organization, polarization, preparation,
extermination, and denial. Armenian Genocide of 1915 was preplanned
by the Nationalist Ottoman Empire and organized by Talaat Pasha. The
major incentive of the Armenian Genocide was to create a uniform
Turkish speaking Muslim territory by cleansing all the non-Turkish
minorities and conquering their lands and possessions. Such a
utopian territory was neither Turkey nor Turkistan. It was called
"Turan." Mehemd Ziya, the most influential thinker of the Turkish
government, who from 1909 to 1918 was a member of the secretive party
that ruled the Ottoman Empire for most of the period, the Central
Committee of the Union and Progress, said, "The land of the enemy
shall be devastated, Turkey shall be enlarged and become Turan." The
only way the Turkish Government could create their desired dreamland
"Turan" was by exterminating all the Armenians who were the Christian
minority in that region and deporting them to foreign lands. Today,
this sad reality has become incredibly hard and disrespectful for
the Turkish government to accept. After all, who would want to admit
a mass murder of two thirds of a nation?

Despite the Turkish Government’s constant crusade to destroy evidence
of the Genocide, there is still tons of evidence remaining to prove
it. When I physically went down to Ani, a holy Armenian city which
Turkey devastated and killed all its Armenian inhabitants during the
genocide, I observed how a government can kill history. All the burnt
churches that were evidence of the Genocide were being torn down,
or they were reconstructed and represented as Turkish mosques. If a
country is not ashamed of her past why would it change her history? A
simple answer to this question is that it is always easier to say
something did not exist rather than denying an actual fact. There is
also unbiased evidence compiled by world famous historians such as
Arnold Toynbee and James Bryce. In February 1916, these historians
began compiling information and evidence for a publication about
recent events in Armenia.

Resistance itself is the most valuable psychological evidence that can
lead to the unraveling of the untold and denied truth. If Turkey is
confident that the Armenian genocide did not happen and keeps denying
this historical fact, then why do they resist those who attempt to
produce documents about this fact? "The Forty Days of Musa Dagh"
(Mount of Moses), is literature that narrates the story of Armenians
inhabiting villages around Mount Moses during World War I.

Although, this story is mainly an artwork, it is yet based on true
facts, evidence, personal experiences and observations of the author
from the genocide. When MGM was trying to produce a movie based on
this book, Turkish government called the American authorities to
forbid MGM from producing such a movie. This clear resistance shows
the fear of the Turks from the popularity and fast transmittance of
the truth. If the world finds out about such an inhumane reality in
history, it will be a lot harder for Turkey to deny the genocide.

Like all the other genocides, racism is an inevitable factor of the
Armenian genocide. The Turks could not stand the Armenians advancements
in economy, and their involvement in the political system. Looking back
at history we find out that every murder has a murderer, especially
if the murders happen in a large amount and at a specific time
period. Armenians have been deprived of any meaningful and official
recognition of this bloody series of murders. Indeed, the world has
not taken the time to listen to the survivors, but this has not kept
them from speaking up and narrating bitter stories about the genocide.

Although the Turkish Government has been denying the Armenian
Genocide for 92 years, the world is getting more informed about this
genocide. Clearly, Turkey will be the last nation to acknowledge the
Armenian Genocide, because denying this historical reality outweighs
the benefits for the Turkish Government. Naturally, Armenians all
around the world will not sit silently. They will protest and fight
until they get the genocide recognized by the whole world. It is
definitely a possible thing to do, because similar cases such as the
Jewish Holocaust have been already tested and have successfully passed
this bloody test of recognition. His eminence, Ignatius Peter XVI
Batanian once said: "A million and a half Armenian victims horribly
massacred, all the Armenian people, shaken but not discouraged,
await an answer."

ARMENIAN FOREIGN MINISTER, EU REP DISCUSS PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION IN BELGIUM

Arminfo
25 Apr 07

Yerevan, 25 April: During his visit to Belgium, Armenian Foreign
Minister Vardan Oskanyan met today [25 April] Peter Semneby, the
European Union special representative for the South Caucasus.

The Armenian Foreign Ministry’s press service reported that the
parties discussed regional issues and Armenian-Turkish relations. They
also spoke about the GUAM [Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Moldova]
initiative [to raise the issue of frozen conflicts] in the UN General
Assembly. Oskanyan reaffirmed Armenia’s position on the issue.

The parties also discussed the 12 May parliamentary election in
Armenia.

Semneby said that EU countries and the European Commission consider
it crucial that Armenia conduct a parliamentary election in line with
international standards. Oskanyan gave his assurances that Armenia
has all preconditions to hold a free and fair election.

The parties exchanged views regarding the results of the negotiations
held in Belgrade on the settlement of the Karabakh conflict. Semneby
said he would travel to Baku today [25 April] to participate in a
conference on the mass media. A meeting with the Azerbaijani foreign
minister is planned during that visit.

Tonight, Oskanyan will make a speech in the Royal Conservatory of
Brussels during an event that will be attended by foreign diplomats and
representatives of Armenian communities and organizations of Europe.