PanARMENIAN.Net
Harvard Expert: Events in 1915 Are Genocide by All
Criteria of Genocide
22.04.2006 21:17 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Leading politicians and groups from
a range of communities are joining with Armenians in
their battle to ensure that the Armenians’
early-20th-century history be taught as genocide,
writes the Boston Globe. As the article Armenians Get
Allies in Genocide Teachings, the Armenians are
fighting a federal lawsuit that seeks to include
opposing views of the Armenian Genocide in teaching
materials for Massachusetts high schools. A rally
yesterday at the State House drew representatives from
the diverse coalition, including members of local
Jewish and Irish communities, as well as the
prosecutor general and the vice-governor of the State,
who intend to run for Massachusetts governor, in a
testament to the political clout that the Armenian
community has in Massachusetts.
In its turn the Boston Herald cites Harvard genocide
expert Helen Fein. “It is a genocide by all criteria
of genocide,” said Fein, director of the Institute for
the Study of Genocide. “It’s insulting and ridiculous
to argue with these deniers,” she said. “Given the
fact that Turkey continues its denial campaign, it
becomes that much more important for the U.S. and
other countries to remember and reaffirm what happened
so we cannot repeat the mistakes of the past,” said
Bryan Ardouny, head of the Armenian Assembly of
America (AAA).

Panorama.am
17:43 22/04/06
Karine Martirosyan Imperial Palace Hotel and Casino
April 19, 2006 in Las Vegas
“Dealertainer” Sandra Daly (L) gets herself ready as singer Gwen
Stefani while Karine Martirosyan fixes her Marilyn Monroe wig as they
prepare to deal blackjack at the Imperial Palace Hotel and Casino
April 19, 2006 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Martirosyan, 37, immigrated
to the United States from Armenia in 2000 and became a U.S. citizen
in November 2005. In her home country, she worked in a hospital as
a doctor, specializing in infectious diseases, after graduating
from Yerevan State Medical University in the country”s capital.
Martirosyan said she decided to come to America after the breakup of
the Soviet Union and the resulting increased tensions with neighboring
Azerbaijan caused a downward turn in the Armenian economy. She obtained
a visa and moved to Las Vegas where she only knew one friend from
Armenia and a distant relative. Martirosyan, who speaks Armenian
and Russian, studied English for two years before starting to take
nursing classes at the Community College of Southern Nevada and the
University of Nevada-Las Vegas. In order to help pay for school, she
took gaming dealer classes, and now works at the casino impersonating
Monroe and singer Christina Aguilera. She said she earns a great deal
more working full time as a dealer in Las Vegas than as a doctor
in Armenia. Martirosyan is not sure what her future holds, as the
Imperial Palace was recently purchased by Harrah”s Entertainment, Inc.,
and is expected to be torn down and replaced. She is waiting for an
evaluation by the Commission on Graduates of Foreign Nursing Schools
to see if her combined U.S. and Armenian college work qualifies her
to take Nevada”s nursing board test to become a registered nurse.

FUTURE HISTORIANS NOTICED TODAY
Panorama.am
15:14 22/04/06
Today a conference dedicated to the 91st anniversary of the Armenian
Genocide was held in Armenian State Pedagogical University during
which the paintings and the sculptures of the University students were
also exhibited. As the president of Students’ Scientific Union of the
University Georgy Gabrielyan mentioned in the talk with Panorama.am
the conference and the exhibition aimed at giving a new meaning and
evaluation to the Armenian Genocide.
During the conference students of different faculties appeared with
reports. Particularly 2nd year student at Psychological and Pedagogical
department R.
Sargsyan touched upon revengefulness as a psychological
phenomenon. Listening to all those reports and being the scientific
head of some of them the dean of Faculty of History, Professor Mher
Karapetyan assured that the existence of the future generation of
historians is secured as they are able to touch upon the inexhaustible
topic of the genocide and even say new words about it. /Panorama.am/

“TURKS CONDEMNED ARMENIAN GENOCIDE IN 1919”
Panorama.am
14:43 22/04/06
“Time will come when the Turkish people will finally realize the
whole seriousness of the crime their ancestors committed and will
demand that their government should publicly recognize the fact of
Armenian Genocide and apologize to the Armenian people,” the acting
dean the Historical Faculty of Armenian Pedagogical Institute,
doctor of historical sciences Mher karapetyan said in the talk with
our correspondent.
Such an optimistic attitude of the historian has its basis,
i.e. history doesn’t leave any crime against the humanity non-punished,
and moreover the Turks themselves condemned the Young Turks in
1919. “The Turkish Court sentenced those criminals to death, tens
of people were exiled, in a word that fact really exists and it is
stated in historical works,” M.
Karapetyan reminded. As the historian mentions “governments come
and pass, people’s mentality changes, thus one cannot consider
it hopeless that Turkey is not going to recognize the Armenian
Genocide.” /Panorama.am/

PanARMENIAN.Net
US to Do Utmost to Remove Differences between Karabakh
Conflict Parties
22.04.2006 20:16 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The negotiating process for the
settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict continues
in the framework of the Prague process, US Ambassador
to Azerbaijan Reno Harnish stated at a news conference
in Baku. In his words, significant improvements have
been achieved in agreeing on main principles, which
can be basis of a just and lasting peace. “The United
States will do its utmost to remove differences in the
stances of the sides,” Reno Harnish concluded, reports APA.

Azerbaijan Does Not Expect New Proposals on Karabakh from US
PanARMENIAN.Net
22.04.2006 21:39 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ It is hard to expect new proposals during the
Washington walks over settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict,
Azeri FM Elmar Mammadyarov told journalists in Moscow, when commenting
on coming official visit of the Azeri President to the US.
“Positions of Azerbaijan that have been unchanged for 15 years, remain
the same. We have always come for settling the issue in compliance
with norms and principles of the international law, UN Security
Council and OSCE resolutions. Undoubtedly if we want to put an end
to the conflict really, so as it does not break out periodically, the
solution should be based on lawfulness exclusively,” the Minister said.
Mammadyarov also reported that during the coming visit of I. Aliyev to
the US and the meeting with US President George Bush a wide range of
issues of bilateral cooperation, as well as international and regional
matters will be discussed. In the Minister’s words, conflict settlement
in the Caucasus will be one of the key topics at the talks. Matters
of energy security, fight against terror, specifically Azerbaijan’s
participation in the anti-terror coalition will also be considered.

“CLEAN AND GREEN CENTRE”
Panorama.am
13:32 22/04/06
Today is a holiday in Yerevan centre – a subbotnik. It cannot be called
otherwise as we cannot see garbage cars decorated with colored balls
and blue ties with the words “Clean and green Centre”, shining ash
cans all over the city every day.
Workers of Center’s local administration went out to clean their
community armed with brooms, shovels and other necessary accessories.
The Republic Square was cleaned from early morning.
What a lovely sight! The work is in full swing and there is hope that
the Centre will be clean at least for a day. Strange people we are
littering the city for a whole year and cleaning it only a day.
It is worth mentioning that the action was held under the motto:
“Clean and green Centre”. The specific Armenian characteristic feature
cannot be omitted either. We Armenian are fond of producing work for
ourselves. /Panorama.am/
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Glendale News Press
April 22, 2006
Genocide commemoration
Local events gather community members to observe the 91st anniversary of the
Armenian Genocide.
By Tania Chatila, News-Press and Leader
NORTHEAST GLENDALE — Celine Mackerdichian doesn’t want to just
slap an Armenian flag on her car and miss out on school on Monday in
recognition of the 91st anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.
The senior at Clark Magnet High School — like many other students
in the Glendale Unified School District — wants to do more.
She wants to educate her fellow Armenian and non-Armenian peers on
the events of 1915 to 1918, when 1.5 million Armenians died at the
hands of the Ottoman Turks.
Mackerdichian was one of more than 75 students from the Armenian
clubs from all four high schools in the district who helped put on
the fifth annual genocide commemoration event at Glendale High School
Friday night.
advertisement More than 800 people, including city and school board
officials, residents and students, packed the school’s auditorium to
attend the event. Many of them wore black T-shirts emblazoned with
the words “Stop the Denial.”
The Turkish government denies the genocide ever happened and the
United States Congress does not recognize it as a genocide.
“I couldn’t be more proud of these kids for taking on this social
responsibility, learning the history and organizing this event,”
school board member Greg Krikorian said.
Krikorian first encouraged the idea of a collaborative commemoration
event among the Armenian clubs from Glendale’s four high schools
five years ago, as a way to provide something that all students
could attend.
The students from Glendale, Hoover, Clark Magnet and Crescenta Valley
high schools have been planning the event since September.
“It’s my Armenian community and I feel like they have given me so
much, so I want to give back by teaching about the genocide,” said
Ateena Pirverdian, a senior at Crescenta Valley High School.
Like Mackerdichian, Pirverdian wants to spread awareness about the
Armenian Genocide.
“Especially even in Glendale, where there is a large Armenian
population, it’s important to let people know why half of the student
body is not there [on Armenian Genocide remembrance day, April 24],”
she said.
At Friday’s event, all four of the district’s high schools put on
performances, including a poetry reading, skit and video.
Several dance groups also performed traditional Armenian dances,
the singer Arax performed and students from R.D. White Elementary
School sang traditional Armenian songs.
“They have done an effort here to reactivate the memory, in fact,
and to ask for the stopping of the denial,” said Vatiter Mandjikian,
a La Crescenta resident who attended the event.
Friday’s event was one way to recognize the historical event that
has affected and continues to affect millions of lives, district
superintendent Michael Escalante said.
“The Armenian Genocide is a tragedy in history that needs to be
recognized,” he said.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Nouvelles St-Laurent, Canada
April 22 2006
Candle lighting ceremony
The Member Organizations of the Congress of Canadian Armenians invite
the public to commemorate the 91st anniversary of the Armenian
Genocide by lighting a candle, laying flowers and joining in prayers
for the souls of the victims of the Armenian Genocide. This event
will take place on April 23 at 1:30 pm at the Genocide Monument in
Ahuntsic’s Marcelin Wilson Park (corner of Henri-Bourassa and Acadie
Blvd.) in Montreal.

Nouvelles St-Laurent, Canada
April 21 2006
Filmmaker to discuss documentary
Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Andrew Goldberg will be the guest
speaker at the Armenian General Benevolant Union of Montreal’s 7th
annual distinguished speaker series on April 29, at 7 pm at 805
Manoogian Street, in the Jirair and Dervishian hall of the AGBU
centre. There will also be a screening of the film. Admission is
free. Information: 748-2428 or visit