THE ARMENIAN PURSUIT FOR JUSTICE: THE NEXT PHASE

ArmRadio.am
20.12.2006 13:14

In a recent article titled "Time to Move Forward," and published in
Hairenik Armenian Weekly in Boston, Horizon weekly in Montreal, Aztag
Daily in Lebanon, The California Courier, USA Armenian Life Magazine
(page E3) in Los Angeles, and other publications, and posted on several
websites, Katia M. Peltekian wrote: "The time has come for Armenians
around the world to move forward. In the past couple of decades, we
have witnessed a surge of research by independent scholars who have
confirmed that what the Armenians were subjected to – massacres and
forced deportations into the desert – was in fact Genocide.

This has of course led to the recognition of the Armenian Genocide by
some governments and parliaments around the world. Yet, we Armenians
await the day when the Turkish government would admit the crimes
their ancestors committed.

Peltekian concluded: "The Land Registry Office in Turkey is concealing
a crucial part of our history. These documents give the details and
the boundaries of the lands, the names of the owners, who sold and
who bought them.

Research through these documents will prove once and for all who the
owners at the time were and when and in what kind of circumstances
changes in ownership occurred. To get what is rightfully our property
is not connected to whether Turkey admits the Genocide or not. The
heirs to those lands are alive and they are now the rightful owners
of those lands. We need to move fast before these land registration
documents also vanish in thin air."