Armenian Cossack Association awarded Dink with duke Madatov prize po

Armenian Cossack Association awarded Dink with duke Madatov prize posthumously

PanARMENIAN.Net
25.01.2007 13:18 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Armenian International Cossack Association (AICA)
posthumously has awarded ‘Agos’ Armenian-Turkish bilingual weekly
editor Hrant Dink, who was gunned down in Istanbul January 19, with
‘Honor and Fidelity’ prize after 1812 war hero Major-General duke
Valerian Madatov. ‘Erkramas’ Armenian newspaper in Russia reports
that the prize was given to slain Dink’s son and widow by AICA ataman
Major-General Sergey Madatyan. The Cossack ataman arrived in Istanbul
to attend Hrant Dink’s funeral and posthumously to award him with
the above-mentioned prize.

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