PR-USA.net
sept 19 2009
Transaction Publishers Announces a New Book Which Unveils the Effects
of the Armenian Genocide
A Perfect Injustice by Hrayr S. Karagueuzian and Yair Auron is an
essential contribution to understanding why the issue of stolen
Armenian wealth remains unresolved after all these years’a
topic addressed for the first time in this volume.
Except for a short period after the end of the First World War and the
ensuing armistice, Turkey has consistently denied that it ever
employed a policy of intentional destruction of Armenians. The
1913-1914 census put the number of Armenians living in Turkey at close
to two million. Today only a few thousand Armenians remain in the city
Istanbul and none elsewhere in Turkey. Armenian sites in Turkey,
including churches, have been neglected, desecrated, looted,
destroyed, or requisitioned for other uses, while Armenian place names
have been erased or changed.
As with the Jewish Holocaust, Armenian properties that were seized or
stolen have not been restored. Sixty and ninety years after these
terrible events, Jewish and Armenian victims and their heirs continue
to struggle to get their properties back. There has been only partial
restitution in the Jewish case and virtually no restitution at all in
the Armenian case.
`The authors accumulated the material item by item and slowly began to
piece together the story of a massive injustice towards the victims of
genocide. . . A fascinating investigation, a book rich in details and
full of documents,’ says Dickran Kouymjian, who is an Emeritus Haig &
Isabel Berberian Professor of Armenian Studies at California State
University in Fresno.
No adequate reparation for the deeds committed against the Armenians
can ever be made. But resolving claims with respect to stolen property
is a symbolic gesture toward victims and their heirs. This is
unfinished business for Jewish heirs and survivor of the Holocaust, as
it is for Armenians.
To order a copy of A Perfect Injustice, contact Transaction Publishers
at 888-999-6778 or order online at Editors
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From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
