Author: Nahapetian Lilit

PRESS RELEASE

The Greater Boston Committee to Commemorate the Armenian Genocide
P.O. Box 35538
Boston, MA 02135
phone: (617) 489-1610
email: [email protected]
web:
Contact: Ara Nazarian

Screening of Armenian Genocide Films by J. Michael Hagopian at Kendall
Square Cinema

Boston, MA — April 27, 2005 — Two movies by director J. Michael
Hagopian probe two aspects of the Armenian Genocide, referred to as the
forgotten or the secret genocide. In Germany and the Secret Genocide,
Hagopian presents the involvement of the German government in the
planning and execution of the Genocide relying mainly on recently
declassified archives of the German government, while in the /Voices
>From the Lakes/, he focuses on the day to day tragedies befallen upon
the Armenians of Kharpert-Mezreh, he provides a case study of the
Genocide’s impact on one community, Hagopian’s birthplace Kharpert-Mezreh.

These movies will be screened at the Kendall Square Cinema in
Cambridge from April 29 to May 5, 2005 through the initiatives of
the Greater Boston Committee to Commemorate the Armenian Genocide. The
show times for these movies are as follows: Germany and the Secret
Genocide (86 min): Mon-Thurs at 2:20 PM, Fri-Sun at 12:20 PM. Voices
>From the Lake (57 min): Mon-Thurs at 1:00 PM, Fri-Sun at 11:00 AM.
There’s a nominal fee.

Germany and the Secret Genocide, released in 2003, takes place against
the backdrop of World War I when German diplomats and soldiers help to
cover up and deny the massacre of Armenians in exchange for Turkey’s
support in the war. It follows the final footsteps of Armenians who were
led to their deaths in Turkey during the Armenian Genocide beginning in
April 1915. Director J. Michael Hagopian weaves together filmed
interviews and letters written by American and European survivors of the
Genocide, plus witnesses and experts in the field, to examine Germany’s
involvement in the mass killings of Armenians at the hands of Turkish
soldiers. He examines how German bureaucrats, diplomats and soldiers are
complicit in the Genocide. Hagopian presents evidence throughout the
film that the Genocide was a well thought-out attempt to exterminate an
entire culture, complete with train schedules for the transportation of
Armenians out of an area Turkey wanted to control during a time when its
once powerful Ottoman Empire was on the decline.

Twenty-five years in research and production, Voices from the Lake,
the first feature-length documentary film on the Armenian genocide
focuses on the day-to-day tragedy unfolding in Kharpert-Mezreh, one
among 4000 towns and villages of the former Ottoman Empire in 1915,
where monumental forces were unleashed by a policy of annihilation. The
global humanitarian dimensions of the cataclysmic event are recorded by
eyewitness accounts of American and European officials, missionaries,
and educators, and by Armenian survivors. These are revealed for the
first time through censored reports, classified documents and hidden
diaries. Amazingly, scratched-out journals have been decoded with the
help of modern digital technology.

As a political science and economics professor at the University of
California at Los Angeles (UCLA), J. Michael Hagopian was unsatisfied
with the quality of educational films that were available for him to use
in his classroom. Before long, he left his teaching post and picked up a
camera to produce and direct quality educational tools on topics ranging
>From Black history to Nigerian culture. Born in Kharpert-Mezreh,
Armenia, Hagopian’s search for his roots and the history of his people
have won him critical acclaim, including two Emmys for the writing and
production of The Forgotten Genocide, the first full-length feature
film on the Armenian Genocide of 1915. Since then, filmmakers from
around the world have turned to the Armenian Film Foundation seeking the
rare archival film footage and survivor interviews Hagopian assembled
for this film. In all, Hagopian’s work encompasses nearly 400 survivor
interviews and 20 years of research.

In 1979, Hagopian founded the Armenian Film Foundation, a California
educational non-profit organization, to document the Armenian culture
and instill pride in Armenian youth worldwide. Since then, he has been
leading the effort to raise funds and create THE WITNESSES trilogy on
the Armenian Genocide. For additional info on the Armenian Film
Foundation, please visit their website at

Germany and the Secret Genocide was first screened in Boston by the
National Association for Armenian Studies and Research and was featured
in Boston Film Festival in 2004.

The Greater Boston Committee to Commemorate the Armenian Genocide is an
umbrella organization representing the great majority of the Armenian
religious, educational, cultural and athletic organizations in the
Greater Boston area. For more information about the activities of the
committee or ways to contribute, please visit our website at:

Q&A on the News

Arizona Daily Star
04.27.2005

COX NEWS SERVICE

Question: Where is Dr. Jack Kevorkian in prison? How many people did
he assist in dying?

Answer: The retired pathologist, 76, is at Thumb Correctional Facility
in Lapeer County, Mich.

The advocate of assisted suicide was sentenced to 10 to 25 years in
prison in 1999 for his role in what he called the “mercy killing” of
52-year-old Thomas Youk in September 1998. Youk, of Oakland County,
Mich., was suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig’s
disease).

Kevorkian publicly acknowledged helping 130 people die by assisted
suicide.

The Michigan Department of Corrections lists his earliest possible
release date as June 1, 2007; his maximum discharge date is Aug. 10,
2019.

oelkermord_an_armeniern_%E2%80%93_vorspiel_fuer_au schwitz_197.html

Russland-Aktuell Mo 25.April 2005

Völkermord an Armeniern Vorspiel für Auschwitz

Moskau. Es gibt drei Gründe, des Völkermordes an den Armeniern
von 1915 zu gedenken: die deutsche Mitschuld, der EU-Beitrittswunsch
der Türkei und die Lage im Kaukasus. Ein Thema für Brüssel,
Berlin und Moskau. 1915 war die Türkei einer der wichtigsten
Verbündeten Deutschlands. Kaiser Wilhelm schenkte dem Sultan den
Panzerkreuzer Goeben und den Kleinen Kreuzer
Breslau. Oberkommandierender der türkischen Streitkräfte war der
deutsche General Fritz Bronsart von Schellendorff.

Als die türkische Offensive gegen Russland scheiterte, wurde in
Istanbul beschlossen, die christlichen Armenier, die als fünfte
Kolonne Moskaus galten, zu vernichten. Am 23. und 24.April 1915 wurde
in Instanbul die armenische Elite, 2.350 Menschen, ermordet. Die
armenische Bevölkerung im Lande wurde in Konzentrationslagern
getrieben und ermordet.

Insgesamt wurden bei anti-armenischen Progromen ab 1894 und beim
Genozid von 1915 bis 1923 wahrscheinlich anderthalb Millionen Menschen
getötetIn seinem Kommentar für russland-aktuell fordert Aschot
Dschasojan, Generalsekretär der Internationen Konföderation der
Journalistenverbände keine Wiedergutmachung, sondern
völkerrechtliche Aufarbeitung.

In der Seele eines jeden Armeniers werden einige Erinnerungen wie
Heiligtümer sorgsam gehütet. Dank dieser Heiligtümer kann
das armenische Volk im Laufe der Jahrhunderte sich selbst treu
bleiben. Das ist unsere Sprache, die auch fern der Heimat nicht
vergessen wird. Das ist der christliche Glaube unserer Vorväter
und der Ruf des biblischen Ararat. Und die Erinnerung an das
schreckliche Blutbad.

Ich meine die Vernichtung von anderthalb Millionen Armeniern,
Bewohnern der Türkei durch die Streitkräfte des Osmanischen
Imperiums. Mit Wissen und auf direkte Anweisung der obersten
politischen Führung der osmanischen Türkei – im Rahmen der
Politik der ethnischen Säuberung des Staatsgebietes, der
Vernichtung der angestammten Bevölkerung der östlichen
Provinzen, die in der Geschichte ein Teil des alten armenischen
Staates gewesen waren.

Nach den Ende des ersten Weltkrieges teilten die Sieger nicht nur die
Welt neu auf. Sie erstellten auch neue Regeln für die
internationalen Beziehungen. Wenn sie ernsthaft über das Schicksal
der Menschen im fernen Armenien nachgedacht hätten, die ihr Leben
nur deswegen verloren, weil sie mit einer „falschen`
Nationalität geboren wurden, dann hätte es ein
Vierteljahrhundert später in Europa keine Ghettos und keine
Krematorien von Auschwitz gegeben.

Mit welchem Gepäck will die die Türkei in die EU aufgenommen
werden ?

Dies ferne Gebiet, in dem sich die Tragödie abspielte, ist Europa
inzwischen näher gerückt. Die Türkei klopft an die Tür der
EU. Eben darum ist es für die Parlamente und Regierungen Europas so
ausserordentlich wichtig, mit welchem historischen Gepäck Ankara in
ihren Kreis aufgenommen werden will. Für viele wurde zur
Schlüsselfrage, ob die Türkei die Tatsache des Völkermordes
an den Armeniern im Jahre 1915 anerkennt.

Die Position Ankaras sieht äusserst befremdlich aus. Die Tatsache
des Völkermordes wird schlicht geleugnet, obwohl sie inzwischen von
16 Staaten anerkannt wird. So auch am 4.10.2000 vom Aussenpolitischen
Ausschuss des US-Kongresses. Die UN-Menschenrechtskomission
verurteilte des Völkermord an den Armeniern. Schon am 18.Juni 1987
beschloss der Europarat, dass die Weigerung der Türkei, den
Völkermord anzuerkennen zu einem unüberwindlichen Hindernis
für den Beitritt zum Europarat wird.

Sogar die Regierung Atatürks verurteilte anfangs den Völkermord

Paradox ist dabei, dass gerade die Türkei nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg
den Völkermord zunächst verurteilt hatte, der heute von den
Regierungskreisen in Anakara verschwiegen wird. Das geschah damals vor
einem Sondertribunal, das von der neuen revolutionären Regierung
Atatürks eingesetzt worden war. Allerdings war das Urteil ein
reiner politischer Akt. Das neue Regime wollte lediglich alle Schuld
auf den gerade gestürzten Sultan abschieben. Warum können die
Regierenden der Türkei heute nicht das Gewissen ihres Volkes
entlasten und unabweisbare Fakten von vor mittlerweile 90 Jahren
anerkennen ?

Geht es darum, dass die heutige Türkei Angst vor „armenischem
Revanchismus` hat ? Es ist ja kein Geheimnis, dass nach der
Anerkennung des Holocausts gewaltige Wiedergutmachungszahlungen an die
Opfer und ihre Erben gezahlt und allen Juden der Welt das Recht
gewährt wurde, in die Bundesrepublik einzuwandern.

Ich bin persönlich weder Jurist noch Diplomat. Es scheint mir aber,
dass es vielleicht das Beste für alle wäre, eine internationale
Vereinbarung über eine Verjährungsfrist für derartige
Wiedergutmachungszahlungen zu beschliessen.

Verjährungsfrist für Völkermord ?

Ich bin ein Kind der Armenier, die 1915 ums Leben kamen. Von 30
Familienangehörigen meines Urgrossvaters überlebten nur fünf
den Todesmarsch nach Eriwan. Ich könnte der Türkei meine
persönlichen Kompensations-Forderungen stellen.

Aber für unser Volk – wie auch für jedes beliebige andere – ist
das Allerwichtigste, ohne Angst vor einem neuen Völkermord auf
dieser Welt zu leben.

Wichtig ist nicht großzügige Wiedergutmachung, sondern die
Anerkennung und Verurteilung dieses Verbrechens gegen die
Menschlichkeit.

Vielleicht sollte die Türkei ihren ersten Schritt nach Europa in
Armenien machen, indem es seine Gegenwart von der tragischen
Vergangenheit befreit.

Aschot Dschasojan, Moskau
Generalsekretär der Internationen Konföderation der Journalistenverbände

Armenia to get 2m euros from regional project in 2005

Arminfo
26 Apr 05

YEREVAN

The main issue discussed at the TRACECA [Transport Corridor
Europe-Caucasus-Asia] conference in Baku was the issue of switching
the programme to self-financing by 2007. The Armenian side has given
its written consent to this, the chairman of the Transport and
Communications Ministry’s foreign relations department, Gagik
Arutyunyan, told journalists today.

In 2005, Armenia will receive 2m euros from the programme’s 9m-euro
budget. The funds will be channelled into the monitoring of the 300 km
Yerevan-Ayrum railway. Grigoryan expressed his hope that the
reconstruction of the railway in the Ayrum-Sadakhlo (12 km) section
will be included in the TRACECA budget of 2006, Arutyunyan said.

[Passage omitted: Armenia did not participate in the TRACECA
conference because it was not invited]

Agence France Presse
24 avril 2005 dimanche

Génocide arménien: messe à Notre-Dame et rassemblement à Paris

PARIS 24 avr 2005

Une messe de Requiem pour le 90e anniversaire du génocide des
Arméniens sera célébrée dimanche après-midi à la cathédrale
Notre-Dame de Paris suivi d’un rassemblement devant le monument
arménien place du Canada, a-t-on appris dimanche auprès de
porte-paroles arméniens.

La messe de Requiem à Notre-Dame sera célébrée à 15h00 par l’église
catholique arménienne, a annoncé Mourad Papazian, porte-parole du
“Chnak”, un parti arménien de France.

Ensuite à 16h30, un rassemblement devant le statue du Père Komitas
place du Canada, en présence de nombreuses personnalités du monde
politique aura lieu, suivi d’une manifestation jusqu’à l’annexe de
l’ambassade de Turquie aux Champs-Elysées.

Inauguré en avril 2003, le monument du génocide arménien rend hommage
au musicien arménien Komitas, mort en 1935 à Paris, ainsi qu’aux
victimes du génocide et aux combattants arméniens morts pour la
France.

“Nous nous rassemblerons comme chaque année devant le monument
arménien et nous irons devant l’annexe de l’ambassade de Turquie.
D’ordinaire nous allons devant le siège de l’ambassade mais ce trajet
a été modifié en raison des autres commémorations de la déportation
au Trocadéro”, a expliqué Armen Papazian, un autre porte-parole
Arménien.

Plusieurs représentants politiques participeront à cette célébration
devant le monument Komitas, notamment François Hollande, premier
secrétaire du Parti socialiste et le député UMP de Paris Pierre
Lellouche.

Jacques Chirac et son homologue arménien Robert Kotcharian s’étaient
rendus vendredi devant cette statue où ils avaient déposé une gerbe.

Par ailleurs, en Ile-de-France, plusieurs rassemblements avec dépôts
de gerbe ont eu lieu dans la matinée, notamment à
Issy-les-Moulineaux, Arnouville-lès-Gonesse et à Alfortville, où
réside une importante communauté arménienne.

Bangkok Post, Thailand
April 26 2005

To each their own version of events

The huge protests in China and South Korea have focused new attention
on history and how it is preserved

By ALAN DAWSON

This week is the anniversary of the American invasion and failed
colonisation of Canada. Military forces of the 38-year-old United
States had earlier attacked and burned the Canadian capital city,
York (later renamed Toronto). Sixteen months later, Canadian armed
forces under the British General Robert Ross entered Washington, DC
and immediately torched the capital of the new nation. They burnt the
White House to the ground with particular glee.

A funny thing has happened 192 years after these mutually marauding
raids. School textbooks in Canada teach every child the glories of
the punitive raid into Washington. US textbooks teach that the
Americans defeated the British at New Orleans two years later and won
the war. Nothing happened in Washington.

A funnier thing: Canadians have never taken to the streets to protest
these self-serving US school textbooks (although they seldom miss an
opportunity to ask Americans how they like their new White House).

This illustrates why it is difficult for so many people to grasp why
millions of Chinese and Koreans seem so outraged about a few
paragraphs in the world’s most universally boring literature _ the
high school history textbook.

Of course, it is all part of the often convenient package of allowing
pent-up domestic rage to channel to “those foreigners”. No nation
is innocent of this, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. The
Chinese-language reference to outsiders as barbarians and the very
name of the Middle Kingdom speaks loudly.

Cambodians hate yuan (Vietnamese), the strongest word in Khmer
describing foreigners. Similarly, although the American labour
movement attacks companies for out-sourcing work, these attacks are
as clearly anti-foreigner as the “Japanese only” signs on the Soi
Thaniya karaoke bars.

But the demand by huge numbers of Chinese and Korean civic leaders
and common people to police the schoolbooks of two generations of
Japanese children is unique.

Not that textbook disputes themselves are unusual. Earlier this year,
German educators debated a phrase in a sentence in a chapter about
the 1915-16 Turkish-Armenian clash, anguishing over whether to let
stand the reference to “the genocide of the Armenian population of
Anatolia”. They cut it out.

But textbooks are always under discussion, and often heated debate.
But the dispute is almost always over national textbooks, not those
of nearby countries. And even heated debate is different from huge
demonstrations in multiple cities over it.

It is an interesting idea that the neighbours should write each
others’ textbooks.

One wonders, though, just what Thai students would learn if the
Burmese and Cambodians wrote history. Just a guess, but the chapters
on Nakorn Wat (Angkor Wat) and Ayutthaya might look a little
different from today’s texts.

Certainly, the Khmer have just a little different view of history
than the Vietnamese. If five million Cambodians got the power,
Vietnamese school children would be taking exams on their country’s
rapacious seizure of Saigon _ called Prey Nokor when it was a Khmer
river settlement until the mid-17th century. Vietnamese high school
history textbooks written by Cambodians probably would have a chapter
on the unquenchable lust for territorial expansion by Vietnamese
emperors, and the actual rape of a Cambodian princess by the Nguyen
Dynasty emperor who would do anything to grab more land and power.

Today’s actual history textbooks by Vietnamese usually have a
paragraph on a royal wedding which showed how Cambodians and
Vietnamese of the Nguyen Dynasty co-existed closely.

But then the Vietnamese have a different take on China than the
current Chinese textbooks.

If there were textbook protests in Vietnam, they would demand that
Beijing recognise that Chinese emperors spent 1,200 years trying
unsuccessfully to crush the Vietnamese, who did not have a generation
of peace over the millennium starting 200 years BC.

Mythical Vietnamese protesters would also insert a chapter about the
1979 Chinese invasion of Vietnam, a scorched-earth raid that China
conducted for no other reason than it could _ to “punish” Vietnam
for liberating Cambodia from the Khmer Rouge. Chinese textbooks,
after all, make no mention of these events, which went a long way to
shaping Vietnam in all important ways.

Thai educators have enough trouble trying to present history to young
minds. There are still textbooks around that claim the Thai
originated in Mongolia _ a mere piffle of a dispute compared with how
to present the 1973, 1976 and 1992 democracy revolutions. Come to
think of it, maybe it would be easier to let outsiders write Thai
textbooks.

But that brings up the point that no neighbours want to. Thais are
not on the streets demanding that Laos, say, revise its lesson plan
for Mathayom 2 students to stop calling the Thai expeditionary aid
force to Laos “mercenary invaders”.

Chinese and Koreans, though, are not just on the streets but tolerant
of hotheads and thugs who beat up Japanese students, trash
Japanese-owned businesses and throw huge pavement stones at local
drivers in their Japanese-brand (locally made) cars. Banners say
“Japanese dwarfs” and “Japanese devils”. So these are not all
thoughtful people asking Japan to reconsider its past.

They say, or rather scream that this is over a sentence in a
paragraph in a textbook that might be seen by 1% of Japanese high
school students.

The sentence describes the well-named Rape of Nanking (Nanjing) as an
“incident”. Of course, the murderous, six-week conquest was among
the worst atrocities of modern warfare. But that is why hundreds of
textbooks, dozens of history books and scores of film and video
documentaries so carefully study this episode. Not even a cloistered
Japanese high school student can really escape the extremely public
facts about the Nanjing massacre.

Yet it seems beyond doubt the mostly young demonstrators in China and
Korea, whose parents probably were not alive at the time, are
entirely sincere in their almost incoherent rage about the failed
Japanese textbook. Yes, it is a symptom of a general perception that
the Japanese will never clear their guilt for colonial and wartime
brutality, but the demand to edit the textbooks is specific.

Many people must think this is seriously weird. Mexico and America
have almost contrasting views of the often bloody 19th century wars
that finally formed their border, but even a 10-person protest
against the high school textbooks would be newsworthy. Millions of
French people might love to write textbooks for German schools, but
they are not on the streets demanding that right. Poles write entire
jokebooks about the Russians, but do not protest the Moscow high
school lessons.

The British are outraged when Canadians claim credit for razing
President James Madison’s White House, but they don’t want their
former colony to rewrite the textbooks about it.

When Canadian ambassador Fred Bild went to Hanoi to present his
credentials a few years after the communist victory, his hosts took
him on a tour of the Vietnam Military Museum and informed him
proudly: “We are the first nation in history to defeat the United
States.” Mr Bild was delighted to set the record straight that
actually, no, Canada had been there, done that 160 years before _ and
burnt the White House to boot.

The Vietnamese were stricken. One official was so upset it seemed for
a couple of minutes there might be a diplomatic incident. Maybe the
Vietnamese should revise their textbooks over it.

Pan Armenian News

BAKU HOPES FOR RAMIL SAFAROV’S EXTRADITION AFTER PRONOUNCEMENT OF SENTENCE

25.04.2005 06:36

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The trial of Azeri serviceman Ramil Safarov, who is
accused of the murder of Armenian officer Gurgen Margarian, will be resumed
in Budapest on May 10. To remind, last February both officers attended
English language course within the frames of Partnership for Peace NATO
program. After the pronouncement of sentence the Azerbaijani Ministry of
Justice intends to open negotiation with the Hungarian authorities on
Safarov’s extradition to Azerbaijan, head of the department of international
legal cooperation of the Justice Ministry Zaver Gafarov stated. To determine
the term of imprisonment Azerbaijan will follow the European Convention on
Extradition of 1983, IA Regnum reports

RIA Novosti, Russia
April 24, 2005

ARMENIAN PRESIDENT ADDRESSES PEOPLE ON THE 90TH ANNIVERSARY OF
ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

YEREVAN, April 24 (RIA Novosti’s Gamlet Matevosyan) Armenian
President Robert Kocharyan addressed Armenian people on the occasion
of the 90th anniversary of genocide of Armenians in the Ottoman
Empire.

Press service of the Armenian president told RIA Novosti that
Kocharyan’s address mentioned, in particular, that “1915 was a
watershed year in the Armenian history. It fundamentally changed the
natural evolution of Armenian history. The consequences of the
tragedy are still reflected in the lifestyle of all Armenians.”
According to Kocharyan, the condemnation of Armenian genocide on the
part of international community is an issue of general concern. “This
problem must be regarded in the context of regional and international
politics today,” the Armenian president stressed.

Kocharyan also noted that Armenian leadership had stated on numerous
occasions and continues to insist on development of normal relations
with Turkey. However, the policy of denial conducted by Turkish
authorities raises questions not only among Armenian people, but also
among global community.

According to the Armenian president, the genocide occurred due to
various reasons, but the major cause was the absence of Armenian
statehood.

>From the second half of the 19th century to 1920, the Ottoman Empire
conducted a planned persecution campaign against Armenians, which saw
its height in 1915-1916, when more than 1.5 mln Armenians were killed
in various regions of Western Armenia, which was part of the Ottoman
Empire at the time. About 600,000 Armenians became refugees and
dispersed among many countries. The Armenian Diaspora was formed.

Many countries, including Argentina, Belgium, Bulgaria, Greece,
Italy, Canada, Cyprus, Lebanon, Russia, Slovakia, Uruguay (the first
country to do so officially in 1965), France and Switzerland have
recognized the genocide against Armenians.

Zaman, Turkey
April 23 2005

Armenia to Medal Recognition of So-Called Genocide
By Ali Ihsan Aydin

Journalist-writer Ragip Zarakolu and Ali Ertem, chairman of “Union
against Genocide” Turkish organization in Germany, will be granted
with “medal of courage” as they showed the “courage to recognize the
Armenian Genocide.”

Ertem and Zarakolu will receive their medals at Paris municipality
during a reception that will be organized by Paris Mayor Bertrand
Delanoe in the honor of Armenians who live in Paris. Ara Toronian,
head of The Coordinating Council of Armenian Organizations in France
(CCAF), will give the medals. Ertem, who lives in Frankfurt Germany,
participates in the so-called Armenian genocide conferences in Europe
and Armenia claims: “Turks are the only nation who were not judged
for the genocide that they committed and the violence it directed
against Kurds who were used by Turks during the genocide.”

‘Turkey arguments for the arousal of Armenian Identity’

The French Armenian Diaspora, which is the largest and most organized
Armenian organization in Europe, has launched a big campaign all over
France for so-called April 24 anniversary. Armenian organizations
will have rallies today and nationwide in France. In Paris, Armenians
will light the Unknown Soldier fire at Champs Elysee and will march
to the Turkish Embassy. They place electronic lighted banners
reading, “We remember the Armenian Genocide” on billboards around the
city. A commemorative ceremony in the famous Notre-Dame Cathedral for
the memory of those who died in 1915 will also be held. Almost all of
the French televisions will broadcast documentaries and debate
programs about the so-called Armenian Genocide. Armenians also
organize conferences and panels in many cities about Turkey’s EU
membership. Chairman of Armenian National Committee of Europe (CDCA)
Vartan Arzoumanian said in his interview to Le Figaro that Turkey’s
EU membership process helped Armenians to reshape an Armenian
Identity in Europe and added, “We try to advertise the 1915 Armenian
Genocide in great effort before the genocide is totally forgotten.”

NTV MSNBC, Turkey
April 21 2005

Armenian power show at the US Congress

The so-called Armenian genocide commemoration drew many Armenian
representatives from all over the country.

April 21- The Armenian lobby in America has finalised the motion on
the so-called Armenian genocide and said that they expect President
George Bush to announce it on 24th April.

On the 90th anniversary of the alleged genocide, April 24, Ankara
expects that the word “genocide” would not be uttered in the US
congress but terms of similar meaning to be used.
In a meeting on Thursday, attended by more than 20
congressmen, the Democratic Party candidate for the 2003 presidential
elections, John Kerry, said that they would work hard to have
Washington recognise the Armenian genocide.
“President Bush should request Turkey to change its position,
since 1.5 million people were killed. This is a big genocide. We
shall take a lesson from history,” Kerry said.