Ontario: Brampton MP Parm Gill Commemorates Armenian Genocide – Video
April 25, 2014
Paramjit Gill (born May 17, 1974) is an elected member of the Canadian
Parliament, representing the riding of Brampton’Springdale in Ontario.
He is a member of the Conservative Party. In the 2011 election, he was
elected as member of parliament.
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GEORGIE
Un Mémorial dédié au Génocide Arménien inauguré Ã Tbilissi
Un mémorial dédié au génocide arménien a été dévoilé lundi à Tbilissi.
Le monument est fait de pierre et se trouve dans la cour de l’une des
églises arméniennes dans la capitale.
Levon Isakhanian, un représentant de la communauté arménienne en
Géorgie, a expliqué Ã l’agence de presse s géorgienne DF Watch qu’un
khachkar est une pierre avec une croix et des ornements gravés en
elle. Il s’agit d’une statue commémorative et c’est une tradition
arménienne de placer ces pierres sur les tombes.
C’est le deuxième mémorial arménien en Géorgie. Le premier a été placé
en face d’une autre église arménienne à Tbilissi il y a quelques
années afin de rendre hommage aux personnes qui sont décédées Ã
Tbilissi le 9 Avril 1989, lors d’un rassemblement pro-indépendance qui
a été dispersée par les soldats soviétiques.
Le nouveau khachkar est dédié Ã la mémoire d’environ 1,5 millions de
personnes qui ont été massacrés par le gouvernement ottoman pendant le
génocide arménien au début du 20e siècle.
`C’est un jour très important pour l’histoire de la communauté
arménienne en Géorgie. C’est un jour où un khachkar, dédié Ã la
mémoire des victimes du génocide arménien, a été érigé pour la
première fois à Tbilissi ` a déclaré Vazgen Mirzakhaniani, chef du
diocèse arménien en Géorgie.
« Nous apprécions l’attitude des Géorgiens en ce jour et nous voulons
que ce khachkar devienne également un symbole pour les relations
arméno-géorgiennes, qui remontent à des siècles.`
samedi 26 avril 2014,
Stéphane ©armenews.com
histoire-diplomatie-Turquie-Arméniens-France-président
Génocide arménien : Hollande note une évolution de la Turquie mais qui
ne suffit pas
(AFP) – François Hollande a affirmé jeudi que les condoléances du
Premier ministre turc Recep Tayyip Erdogan, 99 ans après le génocide
arménien, constituaient `une évolution` mais n’étaient pas
suffisantes.
`C’est un mot qu’il faut entendre mais qui ne peut pas encore
suffire`, a déclaré M. Hollande à Paris lors des commémorations du
génocide.
`Ce qui doit être dit, c’est ce qui s’est produit, même s’il y a lÃ
une évolution` de la part de la Turquie, a-t-il ajouté devant quelques
journalistes après un discours devant plusieurs milliers de membres de
la communauté arménienne de France réunis à Paris pour la
commémoration du génocide perpétré il y 99 ans sous l’empire ottoman.
A l’issue de la cérémonie, certains, en majorité des jeunes
brandissant des drapeaux arméniens, ont manifesté en criant `Turquie
assassins, Turquie réparation` et lancé des fumigènes.
Lors de son allocution, M. Hollande n’avait pas évoqué les
déclarations du Premier turc mais affirmé sa volonté `d’une
reconnaissance par le monde entier du génocide arménien`.
`Cette tragédie porte un nom, un seul nom c’est le génocide, il n’y en
a pas d’autres, c’est la raison pour laquelle la République française
l’a officiellement reconnu par une loi` en janvier 2001, a-t-il
rappelé.
Il a aussi annoncé qu’il se rendrait à Erevan pour la célébration du
centenaire du génocide, le 24 avril 2015.
`La commémoration d’aujourd’hui est une répétition parce que nous
préparons ensemble la célébration du centenaire de 2015, la France
sera à vos côtés pour cette célébration et le 24 avril je ne serai pas
là parmi vous, je serai à Erevan pour le centenaire`, a lancé le
président de la République sous les applaudissements.
`Pourquoi cette présence ? Non pas pour faire la leçon, non pas pour
être le seul et le premier, je serai à cette cérémonie parce que nous
devons continuer jusqu’au bout le devoir de mémoire et donc la
reconnaissance par le monde entier du génocide arménien`, a-t-il
ajouté.
Le Premier ministre turc a fait un geste inattendu en présentant les
condoléances de la Turquie `aux petits-enfants des Arméniens tués en
1915`. Mais l’Arménie a rejeté ces condoléances, réclamant
reconnaissance du génocide et `repentir`.
samedi 26 avril 2014,
Stéphane ©armenews.com
RUSSIE-CRIMEE
20 000 Arméniens déplacés de Crimée par Staline pourraient y revenir
20 000 Arméniens déplacés par Staline de la Crimée dans les années
1940 pourraient revenir dans la presqu’île. Déclaration effectuée par
Vagharshag Molkonian, le président de l’association des Arméniens de
Crimée, rapportée par l’agence de presse russe RIA Novosti. « Le
nouveau décret présidentiel de la Russie nous donne de l’espoir, celui
de redonner les droits aux peuples de Crimée (…) plus de 20 000
Arméniens de Crimée, déplacés pourraient ainsi revenir en Crimée » dit
V. Molkonian. Un programme de construction de logements et de facilité
d’accueil de ces populations déplacées devrait être -selon V.
Molkonian- mis en place par les autorités russes. Le 21 avril le
président russe Vladimir Poutine a affirmé « Profitant de l’occasion
j’ai signé un décret un décret pour le retour des populations tatares,
arméniennes, allemandes, grecques qui ont souffert de la dictature de
Staline ».
Krikor Amirzayan
samedi 26 avril 2014,
Krikor Amirzayan ©armenews.com
Canada
Une contre-manifestaton Turque à Ottawa
Alors qu’Ã Paris la soit-disante contre-manifestation turque s’est
dégonflée tel un ballon de baudruche, les Arméniens d’Ottawa ont subi
les quollbets et insultes de la communauté turque venue troubler la
99ème commémoration du génocide Arménien qui se déroulait devant
l’ambassade de Turquie.
Plusieurs centaines faisaient face aux Arméno-Canadiens au nombre de
1400, séparés par des barrières de sécurité. La Police n’a pas eu Ã
intervenir.
C’est la première fois que la communauté turque contre-manifeste Ã
Ottawa lors d’une commémoration.
Curieusement Shahen Mirakian, membre du Comité National Arménien du
Canada, venu spécialement de Toronto, a déclaré qu’il ne savait pas
`pourquoi ils étaient ici `.
Les contre-manifestants ont finalement quitté les lieux après
l’émotionnel discours de l’ancien député libéral Jim Karygiannis.
samedi 26 avril 2014,
Jean Eckian ©armenews.com
Hurriyet Daily News, Turkey
April 24 2014
US welcomes Turkish PM’s ‘historic’ condolences to Armenians
WASHINGTON – Anadolu Agency
Washington has welcomed a statement released by the Turkish prime
minister on April 23 in which he offered condolences to the
descendants of Armenians killed during World War I.
“We welcome Prime Minister Erdoğan’s historic public acknowledgement
of the suffering that Armenians experienced in 1915,” said Jen Psaki,
the U.S. State Department spokeswoman.
“We believe this is a positive indication that there can be a full,
frank and just acknowledgement of the facts, which we hope will
advance the cause of reconciliation between Turks and Armenians,” she
said.
European Union Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Füle also hailed the
statement issued by the Turkish Prime Minister’s Office.
“Welcome statement of PM Erdoğan on Armenians, reconciliation is key
EU value. Hope steps in this spirit will follow,” Füle said via
Twitter.
Earlier April 23, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, issued a
statement in nine languages, including Armenian, in which he offered
condolences to Armenians highlighting the “shared pain.”
“We wish that the Armenians who lost their lives in the context of the
early 20th century rest in peace, and we convey our condolences to
their grandchildren,” said the landmark statement, which can be a
milestone for Turkey’s confrontation with its past.
“The incidents of World War I are our shared pain. To evaluate this
painful period of history through a perspective of just memory is a
humane and scholarly responsibility,” the statement also said.
Daily Sabah, Turkey
April 24 2014
TURKISH ARMENIANS: REMEMBERING AND FORGETTING
Meryem Ä°layda Atlas 25 April 2014, Friday
Hagop Mintzuri, an Ottoman Armenian, tells us in “Istanbul Anıları:
1897-1940” (Reminiscences in Istanbul) about his family’s bakery in
Besiktas and the bread sold along the seaside.
He relates in a way to the cosmopolitan age of Istanbul. Then,
step-by-step all this memory fades away as the Greek (regionally known
as Rum) grocers disappear, very few Armenian bakers are left here and
there. Later, the nation state engages extensively in making the
society uniform.
Arriving in his village in the harvest season of 1915, Mintzuri misses
the ship setting sail from Istanbul by 25 minutes. The next ship
leaves two months later. What befalls his family left in the village
is captured in this unique and fateful line in the book: “If I had set
off 25 minutes earlier, I would have been non-existent like my
family!” At that moment, time becomes something tangible. It pauses at
that 25th minute. While Mintzuri doesn’t write about it, we understand
that nothing remains the same after those 25 minutes. We share his
sense of loss.
Another Armenian author, Zaven Biberyan, in his novel “Babam Askale’ye
Gitmedi” (My father did not go to Askale), tells the story of a family
who loses all their assets in Istanbul due to the Wealth Tax passed
during World War II and imposed mainly on non-Muslims in Turkey. Those
who do not pay the punitive tax are sent to Askale for forced labor.
Selling everything he owns to avoid going to Askale results in his
family becoming destitute. Moreover, his conscripted son is serving in
the military of a state that puts this ethnicity-based forced labor
into effect. Upon returning, even though he feels his father is doing
the right thing, his mother and sister do not forgive his father. In
the course of the book, the Wealth Tax Law is not put in words.
Nevertheless, for this family, time is suspended the moment the tax
law comes into effect.A dexterous writer, Mıgırdiç Margosyan, in his
master work “Tespih Taneleri” (Pieces of worry beads) describes an
Armenian district of Diyarbakır in the 1950s. In contrast to Istanbul,
which had lost its diversity by that time, Diyarbakır still remains
mixed. What is told in the book is the story of the lives of the smart
Armenian children picked up from Diyarbakır villages and sent to
Istanbul to study while staying at Armenian orphanages.
In 1953, the first encounters of the Armenian village children
arriving at an Armenian orphanage from Diyarbakır with the native
Armenian children of Istanbul are not all that pleasant. In the eyes
of the children from Istanbul, they are “nasty Kurds.” Those years in
which provincialism and urbanity outshined ethnic identification are
just before the events of Sep. 6-7, 1955 against the Greek community
of Istanbul. When we look into these memories, we come to realize how
much we have lost, how much the nation state caused us to lose, and
the difficulty in remembering our loss. All three of these memories
have been addressed in published works by Aras Publications. You can
read stories about human characteristics more than frustration,
revenge and hatred in many of the memoirs published in Turkish by the
same publishing house – lives broken into pieces and scattered, people
lost due to the new state of affairs, kept away from each other and
burying their grievances deep within their subconscious.
That Prime Minister Erdogan officially – and for the first time –
conveyed his condolences yesterday on the occasion of April 23 has
given me hope that maybe there can be a compromise between the
official speech and human stories, novels and memories.
There may be hope for mutual understanding.What we wish to remember
and forget today were everyday facts for those who lived in Istanbul
in 1915. For us, the act of remembering has turned into hard work.
When one considers what the old Turkish state stood for and what it
did, no one could think this process would be easy. That’s why it is
possible to consider Erdogan’s offer of condolence as an effort to put
the old state’s impulses aside. In this tragedy, one side was forced
to forget what happened, while the other side remembered nothing else.
Erdogan’s message is a very important step in the process of both
sides recognizing what the other went through.
Rhode Island Public Radio
April 23 2014
RI Armenian Community to mark genoicide with march
Wed, Apr 23, 2014
By Scott MacKay
The Armenian Community of Rhode Island will sponsor a candlelight
march tomorrow in Providence to commemorate the 99 anniversary of the
Armenian Genocide. The procession begins at 6:45 from the Sts.
Vartanantz Church at 402 Broadway to Providence City Hall, followed by
a program in the city council chambers.
The event is part of a national and international commemoration of the
genocide, where more than a million Armenians were killed by Ottoman
Turks and thousands more were deported.
Wall Street Journal
April 24 2014
Turkey PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan Offers Condolences Over Armenia Killings
Erdogan Acknowledges ‘Inhumane Consequences’ of Deportations
ANKARA, Turkey–Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on
Wednesday offered an unprecedented, conciliatory message to Armenia on
the eve of the anniversary of the massacre of Armenians almost a
century ago.
Mr. Erdogan called the events of World War I “our shared pain” and
acknowledged that the deportation of Armenians in 1915 had “inhumane
consequences.”
Mr. Erdogan released a statement in Turkish, Armenian and seven other
languages, expressing hope that those killed are in peace and offering
Turkey’s condolences to their descendants. The message came a day
before Armenians mark the 99th anniversary of the killings in 1915 by
Ottoman Turks.
The episode is considered by many historians as the first genocide of
the 20th century. They estimate that about 1.5 million Armenians died.
Turkey rejects the term genocide. It says the figures are inflated and
that there were deaths on both sides as the Ottoman Empire collapsed.
Mr. Erdogan, in his message, admitted that the deportations had dire
consequences, but didn’t use the term “genocide.” He said millions of
people “of all religions and ethnicities” lost their lives during the
war.
“The incidents of the World War I are our shared pain,” Mr. Erdogan’s
message read.
Mr. Erdogan said the events should not prevent, “Turks and Armenians
from establishing compassion and mutually humane attitudes toward one
another” and asked that they not be used against Turkey.
“Using the events of 1915 as an excuse for hostility against Turkey
and turning this issue into a matter of political conflict is
inadmissible,” he said.
Mr. Erdogan also renewed a Turkish proposal for a joint study of the
events, involving scholars from both sides.
ATVN – USC
April 24 2014
Rapper R-Mean Performs at Tommy Trojan for Armenian Genocide
The famous rapper performed in remembrance of the Armenian Genocide.
By Fernando Hurtado
Video by Ani Ucar
Famous Armenian rapper R-Mean made an appearance at Tommy Trojan to
perform on the anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.
Students gathered to hear him perform “Open Wounds,” a song that
alludes to the aftermath of the Armenian Genocide, also known as the
Armenian Holocaust.
R-Mean also spearheads the movement Open Wounds 1915 which aims to
increase awareness of the genocide through hip-hop and merchandise.