Mihran Dabag Awarded German Service Cross Order

MIHRAN DABAG AWARDED GERMAN SERVICE CROSS ORDER

Noyan Tapan
June 25, 2009

BOCHUM, JUNE 25, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. The German Service
Cross order was awarded at a solemn ceremony to professor Mihran
Dabaghian, the founder of the Institute for Diaspora and Genocide
Studies organization in the city of Bochum, Germany, on behalf of
the President of Germany Horst Kohler on June 18. The professor
was honoured with that order equivalent to a knightly one for his
scientific works.

Accoring to the Marmara daily of Istanbul, Mihran Dabag was born
in 1944, in Diarbekir. He studied philosophy, history, sociology,
political sciences at Bochum and Bonn Universities. The institute
founded by him acts for 15 years under state sponsorship and works
at study of such themes like massacre, mentality of Ittihat Turks,
collective memory, etc. Dabag was awarded Franz Werfel First Award
in 2003.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

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