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Analysis Research and Planning for Armenia (ARPA) Foundation
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Event: Lecture on `Dollar Diplomacy & the Armenian Genocide’
Speaker: By Hrayr S. Karagueuzian
Date: April 23, Friday
Time: 7:30 pm
Venue: Merdinian Armenian Evangelical School
Address: 13330 Riverside Dr., Sherman Oaks, CA 91423
Abstract: Except for a short period after the end of the First World
War, Turkey has consistently denied that it ever conceived and
employed a policy of intentional destruction of its Armenian citizens
during 1915-1923.
For Turkey, an overwhelming motive to cover-up the centrally conceived
and implemented ethnic cleansing is to prevent tarnishing the sacred
image of the `New’ Turkish Republic’ and its founding leader Mustapha
Kemal. Modern Turkey is packaged and sold to the Turks as a Government
distinct from the previous `terrorist’ regime of the Committee of
Union & Progress (the Ittihadists) whose leaders were convicted and
sentenced to death in absentia by the Turkish Military Tribunals for
their role in committing the mass murder. Turkey’s disclosure of these
facts and those responsible for the carnage will also expose Mustapha
Kemal as a war criminal who himself was sentenced to death in 1920 in
absentia. The unjust enrichment realized by the Turks through the
massive theft of the victims’ wealth are contributing factors that
preempt recognition and acknowledgment.
For the victorious Allies of World War I, acknowledging the massacres
as `Genocide,’ with the later UN-mandated moral, legal and financial
obligations would de facto violate West’s initial pledge made in 1923
to `renounce any and all financial claims’ against Turkey. These
financial deals directly involved Genocide money. Later Turkey’s
membership to the NATO alliance and its increasing lucrative arms
contracts with the U.S. further hardened and perpetuated the policy of
denial by all parties. New U.S. archival documents in the form of
official US diplomatic correspondences and memos hitherto unprocessed
will be presented that detail Turkey’s organized attempts to cash in
on the victims’ life insurance policy benefits and theft of their bank
accounts and valuables deposited in various Ottoman Bank branches.
NOTE. An analysis of these newly declassified documents by the speaker
are now published in a book coauthored by Yair Auron & entitled: `A
perfect Injustice: Genocide and Theft of Armenian Wealth’
(Transaction, 2009). Few copies of the book will be available for
purchase by interested attendees.
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Directions to Merdinian Auditorium
On the 101 FY Exit on Woodman, Go North and Turn Right (East) on
Riverside Dr.
About the Speaker
Hrayr S. Karagueuzian, PhD, FACC. Received his B.Sc. in 1969 in
Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, from the Damascus University,
M.Sc. in 1972 in Pharmaceutical Biology and his Ph.D. in 1978, both
from Columbia University, New York, NY, Since 2007 he serves as the
Director of the Translational Arrhythmia Research Section, Division of
Cardiology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, and since 2009
(July) as Professor of Medicine (Step VI), Division of Cardiology
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Previously, he has Directed
the Basic Cardiac Electrophysiology at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
in Los Angeles. Dr. Karagueuzian has been and is a member of numerous
international committees, editorial and review Boards of international
journals and publications, committees and societies. He is the
recipient of numerous research, technical and scientific awards,
grants and honors, as outstanding investigator and scientific
researcher. He holds five patents in the field of Fibrillation and
Defibrillation. Hrayr is the author of over 130 technical papers, 20
chapters in books, and numerous abstracts, review articles and letters
to the editors. His research and technical capabilities has led him to
pursue the study of U.S. archival documents and memos related to the
life insurance policy benefits and the theft of the bank accounts of
the victims of the Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey. He is the
author of and has served as the committee chair of the ARPA
Institute’s `Health Education and Lifestyle Program (HELP), which has
been (and is still being) implemented in Armenia and Artsakh, when he
was on the Board of Directors of ARPA Institute, 1994-2004.
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