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17:35 16/08/2008

`A SONG TO HAMSHEN’: NOW IN VIDEO VERSION

Grigor Mazlumyan, Armenian author from Sochi, has recently published
his collection of works titled `A Song to Hamshen’. Now, all the works
from this collection are supposed to have a video version and composed
by the original author. `Yerkramas’ reports, that it was the first
paper to publish the `Songs to Hamshen’ in Russian.

The `Song to Hamshen’ counts 30 works in Russian and Armenian
languages. The author, Grigor Mazlumyan has become member of the Union
of Armenian writers in 2007.

Note that now in Sochi and other nearby Black Sea resorts there are
many Armenians – who came there from Hamshen, a Western Armenian town,
now in Turkey. There are some Armenians in Hamshen too but they have
been Islamized. Living close to the Turkish-Russian border the
Hamshen Armenians managed to escape to Russia by sea during the
Armenian genocide in 1915; moreover, they fought back against the
perpetrators.

It’s difficult to cite any numerical data on those
massacred. According to an Armenian priest who witnessed the 1895
massacres and who was instructed by Turks to bury the bodies of the
victims, he himself didn’t know the numbers. This data is perhaps
preserved in the Turkish archives.

Source: Panorama.am