Another Lebanese-Armenian reportedly killed in Beirut blast

11:40, 5 August, 2020

YEREVAN, AUGUST 5, ARMENPRESS. The Lebanese-Armenian Arevelk newspaper reports that the number of Armenians killed in the Beirut blast has reached 4.

According to Arevelk, the victim is identified as Telia Papazian, a Lebanese-Armenian woman who resided close to the port, where the explosion occurred.

Earlier reports said three Lebanese-Armenians were killed in the blast – Nazar Najarian, a politician from the Kataeb Party, Jessica Beckjian, a nurse at the Saint George Hospital University Medical Center, and a man identified as Jack Paramakian.

Editing and Translating by Stepan Kocharyan

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