ROBERT GETIKYAN: OPEN ARMENIA-TURKEY BORDER TO CREATE FAVORABLE CONDITIONS FOR ARMENIAN GENOCIDE RECOGNITION.

PanARMENIAN.Net
27.11.2009 16:49 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The opening of the Armenia-Turkey border will
create favorable conditions for Armenian Genocide recognition,
" Robert Getikyan film director, author of "The Criminal Army"
said. Robert Getikian advised to memorize a poem of Louis Aragon
about national hero of France Misak Manushian.

Misak Manushian – French anti-fascist of Armenian origin once wrote
"I don’t hate the German people. For me it is a very important aspect,
because my mother is a German".

Born in the city of Adiyaman (Turkey), September 1, 1906 Misak
Manushian witnessed the Armenian Genocide. Then Misak was an orphan
in Syria. In 1925 he emigrated to France and lived in Marseilles and
Paris, worked at the Citroen factory. With Armenian compatriots he
published a magazine advocating left ideas and Armenian culture among
emigrants. Together with his wife Meline Manushian he participated
in French Resistance against the invaders, he was an activist of the
Immigrant Labor’s Armenian section. In August 1943 a group under
Manushian command made almost thirty successful attacks against
the German occupiers. The notorious Nazi "Red Poster", published in
15,000 copies, portrayed Manushian: "Manushian, an Armenian, a leader
of the gang, 56 attacks, 150 killed, 600 wounded".

He was arrested by the German command, tortured and executed after 3
months, along with 21 members of his group ("Group of Manushian"). He
was posthumously awarded the Order of the Legion of Honor. Streets,
squares in Paris, Valence, Marseilles, Gardanne, Yerevan and other
places were named after Manushian.