‘Screamers’ remembers genocide

amNewYork, New York
Jan 27 2007

‘Screamers’ remembers genocide
By Jay Carr

January 26, 2007

Before there was Hitler’s Holocaust, there was Turkey’s, where 1.5
million Armenians were exterminated between 1915 and 1923. Who, asked
Hitler on the eve of his genocide, remembers the Armenians?

"Screamers," Carla Garapedian’s documentary driven by the abrasive
metal uproar of the band System of a Down, does. And she wants us to,
as well. When she and the band, comprised of descendants of Armenian
genocide victims, aren’t busy taking Turkey to task, they raise other
inconvenient questions, lapped up by young audiences receptive to
anti-establishment edge.

If the Armenian genocide had been protested, or even questioned, one
band member asks, who’s to say that Cambodia, Bosnia, Rwanda, Darfur
and the Holocaust might not have been mitigated? As even Turkish
writers (Orhan Pamuk, Taner Ackam) boldly question the long silence,
the band’s outcry keeps the pressure on countries (including the
U.S.) to put geopolitcal expediency aside and lean on Turkey, where
the issue is met with denial and repression. As the concert footage
bumps heads with the archival footage, "Screamers" keeps the issue
alive like a hot coal.

SCREAMERS. Documentary by Carla Garapedian

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From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

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Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS