Author: nina hovnanian

REVUE DE PRESSE
[Critique] > de Fatih Akin

Obéissant à un devoir de mémoire envers un génocide arménien dont on a
(trop) peu parlé, The Cut n’est – et loin s’en faut – pas l’oeuvre la
plus forte de Fatih Akin. On regrette par ailleurs un certain
schématisme et des maladresses, mais le film a aussi des qualités.

Synopsis officiel : Anatolie, 1915. Dans le tumulte de la Première
Guerre mondiale, alors que l’armée turque s’attaque aux Arméniens, le
jeune forgeron Nazaret Manoogian est séparé de sa femme et ses deux
filles. Des années plus tard, rescapé du génocide, Nazaret apprend que
ses filles sont toujours en vie. Porté par l’espoir de les retrouver,
il se lance dans une quête éperdue, ponctuée de rencontres avec des
anges et des démons, du désert de la Mésopotamie aux prairies sauvages
du Dakota…

Ça commence assez mal avec une représentation caricaturale et presque
grotesque de l’armée turque qui arrache le personnage principal à sa
famille – sa femme et ses deux filles qu’il ne cessera de vouloir
retrouver tout au long de son épique périple à travers le monde. Une
scène de fusillade au début également sonne relativement faux. Le film
a par ailleurs une tonalité parfois trop cérémonielle et solennelle,
l’hommage au génocide arménien est parfois un peu laborieux, et le
scénario un peu appuyé.

Cependant, et malgr̩ un cahier des charges tr̬s lourd Р̻tre un
mémorial du génocide arménien à lui tout seul, rien que ça -, une
première partie maladroite et un sujet d’énorme tire-larmes assez
casse-gueule, The Cut arrive miraculeusement à nous émouvoir, de temps
à temps. Ce père échappé in extremis d’un massacre, devenu muet et qui
revoit des photos de sa fille, nous émeut finalement énormément ; et,
spectateurs que nous sommes, nous nous identifions profondément au
spectateur en larmes qu’il est momentanément – bref moment de
respiration et de répit dans sa suite d’aventures extraordinaires et
ininterrompues – devant la projection d’un film de Charles Chaplin –
The Kid. Progressivement, le film quitte l’académisme du film à
costumes un peu trop rigide et guindé pour prendre son envol.
Progressivement, le film devient une épopée, une réécriture de
L’Odyssée d’Homère, même.

C’est quand il ose, quand il rappelle Sergio Leone et ses paysages à
vous couper le souffle, quand il se coltine la grandeur et le
grandiose propres à son sujet hors norme et résolument bigger than
life que le film atteint son meilleur niveau. La musique aux accents
psychédéliques d’Alexander Hacke nous happe, comme le regard fixe d’un
Tahar Rahim très habité, et la photo de Rainer Klaussmann est
magnifique.

En définitive, la seconde partie très réussie sauve la première qui
l’est moins, et, s’il n’a pas la densité ou la force des chefs-d’oeuvre
du talentueux cinéaste germano-turc – De l’autre côté (Auf der anderen
Seite) et Head-On (Gegen die Wand) en premier lieu -, il reste un film
digne et à voir.

dimanche 25 janvier 2015,
Stéphane (c)armenews.com

Le Figaro, France
23 janv 2015

Le folklore arménien de Tigran Hamasyan

Home CULTURE Le Live
Par Olivier Nuc, Julia Beyer

VIDÉO – Avec un septième album studio intitulé Mockroot, le pianiste
de jazz est de retour. Invité du Live Le Figaro, il présente trois de
ses nouveaux morceaux, notamment Kars, Out of Nowhere et Lilac.

Voici déjà plusieurs années que Tigran Hamasyan s’est fait remarquer
dans le circuit du jazz mondial. Ses prestations au sein de plusieurs
grands festivals ont montré sa virtuosité. Pianiste d’exception, il
est, à 27 ans, un musicien contemporain notamment grce à sa manière
d’harmoniser dans ses compositions les différents styles qui l’ont
traversé. «J’aime tous les genres de musique, à condition qu’ils me
touchent», explique-t-il au Live du Figaro. «Je ne me restreins pas.
Le plus important c’est de garder une ligne de composition et
l’improvisation. Développer constamment une idée et avoir une vision
pour celle-ci».

De la pop qu’il chantonnait enfant, au jazz qu’il a découvert à l’ge
de 7 ans puis au classique qu’il a étudié à l’école, Tigran Hamasyan a
tiré une ouverture d’esprit et une faculté de synthèse étourdissantes.

«Le folklore musical arménien fait partie intégrante de moi. C’est le
langage musical que je parle. J’ai l’habitude de m’exprimer dedans
avec toute sa complexité. Même si j’écris des mélodies qui sonnent
comme des chansons traditionnelles, elles n’en sont pas. C’est juste
que j’écris dans ce style, dans ce langage».

Très élégant et subtilement rock’n’roll a parfois presque des allures
de vieux sage. Peut-être la fréquentation de plusieurs grands aînés
lui a-t-elle conféré cette maturité assez stupéfiante. En 2006, il a
reçu le grand prix du Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, sous la
présidence d’un de ces géants: Herbie Hancock. Sa technique folle et
toujours au service de sa musicalité faisait le sel des compositions
de son quatrième album, A Fable, le premier à paraître sur le
prestigieux label Verve sorti en 2011.

«Il y a des choses qu’on ne peut pas faire au piano, il faut les chanter»

Tigran Hamasyan

Le pianiste surdoué en est désormais à son septième album, il s’est
également mis au chant: «J’ai chanté sur mes trois ou quatre derniers
disques. Il y a des choses qu’on ne peut pas faire au piano, il faut
les chanter. C’est devenu un aspect de ma musique, mais il y a des
projets qui ne nécessitent que le piano».

Chez ce prodige, ce n’est pas seulement la technique qui impressionne,
mais sa façon de plonger littéralement dans les notes, de les tenir au
bout de ses doigts et de les faire virevolter dans un ébouriffant
ballet. Tigran Hamasyan respecte le passé, mais n’est jamais encombré
par lui, considérant ses multiples influences sans jamais y opérer de
hiérarchie, ce qui fait de lui un jeune homme de son époque.

Le pianiste sera le 3 mars au Trianon et le 10 avril à la Philharmonie
de Paris en duo avec Brad Mehldau. «Nous nous étions rencontrés à la
balance à Montréal où nous avons décidé ce que nous allions jouer. Il
y a des morceaux de Brad que j’adore et il aime un des miens. Nous
avons essayé quelques trucs du compositeur arménien Komitas».

Associated Press International
January 23, 2015 Friday 8:09 PM GMT

Armenia says 2 killed in clash on border with Azerbaijan

YEREVAN, Armenia

YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) – The Armenian Defense Ministry says two of its
servicemen have been killed in a border clash with a group of
Azerbaijani forces.

The ministry said the incident occurred early Friday when a group of
Azerbaijani soldiers attempted an incursion. Separately, the
separatist Nagorno-Karabakh region’s military said three Azerbaijani
soldiers were killed when they tried to cross the border.

Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry, in turn, accused the Armenians of
trying to cross into its territory, according to a statement carried
by the Interfax news agency.

The two ex-Soviet neighbors have been locked in a conflict over
Azerbaijan’s Nagorno-Karabakh region, which along with some adjacent
territory has been under the control of Armenian soldiers and local
Armenian forces since a 1994 ceasefire that ended a six-year war.
Attempts at peaceful settlement have stalled.

Kathweb, Österreich
23/1/2015

1915-Gedenkevents in Genf und Wien: Auch Aramäer im Fokus

100 Jahre nach den Massakern an Armeniern und aramäischen bzw.
syrisch-orthodoxen Christen im Osmanischen Reich wollen auch die
Aramäer als Minderheit in der Türkei anerkannt werden

23.01.2015

Genf-Wien, 23.01.2015 (KAP) 100 Jahre nach den Massakern an Armeniern
und aramäischen (syrisch-orthodoxen) Christen im Osmanischen Reich
wollen auch die Aramäer (auch: “Syriacs”) als amtlich registrierte
Minderheit in der Türkei anerkannt werden. Europäische
Menschenrechtsorganisationen und Minderheiten-Vertreter halten dazu am
Montag, 26. Jänner, im Genfer Palais des Nations (UN-Sitz) ein
Symposion ab. Hauptreferent ist der Leiter des Brüsseler “European
Centre for Law and Justice”, Gregor Puppinck. Der französische Jurist
hatte u.a. im Vorjahr die größte europäische Bürgerinitiative “One of
Us” organisiert.

Die christlichen Kirchen in Österreich werden am 24. April im Wiener
Stephansdom gemeinsam der Opfer des Völkermords an den Armeniern und
christlichen Aramäern/Syrern vor 100 Jahren gedenken. Das gab Kardinal
Christoph Schönborn beim ökumenischen Empfang am Mittwochabend
bekannt. Das Gedenken an den Armenier-Genozid müsse getragen sein vom
Bemühen um “Wahrheit und Gerechtigkeit”, führte Erich Leitenberger von
der Stiftung “Pro Oriente” bei dem Empfang aus. Es gelte die
Verbrechen anzuerkennen und zu verurteilen, bei denen rund 1,5
Millionen armenische und weitere ca. 500.000 syrische Christen getötet
wurden, “weil sie Christen waren”.

Wie “Pro Oriente” am Freitag berichtete, habe auch der lateinische
Patriarch von Jerusalem, Fouad Twal, die – vor allem in der Türkei
noch immer andauernde РLeugnung des V̦lkermords an den Armeniern
verurteilt. Twal hatte mit einer Delegation von Bischöfen
verschiedener in der Heiligen Stadt präsenter Kirchen den
armenisch-apostolischen Patriarchen von Jerusalem, Nourhan Manoogian,
besucht, um die Weihnachts- und Neujahrswünsche zu überbringen. In
einem Grußwort unterstrich der lateinische Patriarch die Bedeutung der
armenischen Gedenkfeiern, die in diesem Jahr in aller Welt
stattfinden.

“Die offizielle Türkei”, so der Patriarch, “betrachtet den Genozid als
Erfindung. Viele Länder sind jedoch der mutigen Überzeugung, dass der
Genozid anerkannt und verurteilt werden muss. Seit viel zu langer Zeit
findet eine enorme Verleugnung statt. Darüber muss die Wahrheit
siegen.”

HAUT KARABAGH
C’est une Arménienne, sniper, qui a abattu le commandant d’un groupe
de snipers Azéris dans la zone de contact au sud du Haut Karabagh

Le porte-parole du ministère arménien de la Défense, Ardzroun
Hovhannissian informe que le commandant des snipers Azéris fut visé et
tué par une arménienne ! Le site facebook du porte-parole du ministère
arménien de la Défense écrit vendredi 23 janvier après les accrochages
sérieux entre Arméniens et Azéris dans la zone de contact au Haut
Karabagh : >.

Krikor Amirzayan

dimanche 25 janvier 2015,
Krikor Amirzayan (c)armenews.com

British Have Invaded 193 Countries: Make 26 January ( Australia Day,
Invasion Day) British Invasion Day

By Dr Gideon Polya
23 January, 2015
Countercurrents.org

In the last 2 millennia the British have invaded 193 out of 203
present-day countries (195 UN-recognized nations and 8
non-UN-recognized self-governing countries) as compared to the French
80, the US 70 and Apartheid Israel 12. However the British invasion
of Australia on 26 January 1788 ultimately destroyed as many as 600
unique Indigenous Australian tribes and a comparable number of
languages and dialects (it is estimated that in 1788 there were 300
distinct Aboriginal language groups and 750 dialects of which only
150 survive) [1, 2], this making the Australian Aboriginal Genocide
qualitatively the worst genocide in human history. Australia ‘s
quantitatively worst genocide was the WW2 Bengali Holocaust in which
the British with Australian complicity deliberately starved 6-7
million Indians to death for strategic reasons ( Australia withholding
food from its huge wartime grain stocks) [3, 4].

26 January is commemorated as Invasion Day by Indigenous Australians
but celebrated as Australia Day by White Australians as the day when
White Australia began. In 2015 the British, having invaded all but 10
out of the world’s 203 countries, are still invading other
countries. Indeed Great Britain is currently into Britain ‘s Third
Syrian War and Britain ‘s Sixth Iraq War. These appalling statistics
make a compelling case for the whole British`devastated world
marking 26 January as British Invasion Day.

Before the British Invasion of Australia on 26 January 1788,
Indigenous Australians had been living in Australia for about 60,000
years. There were about 750 different tribes, 300 language groups and
750 dialects, of which only 150 survive today and of these all but
about 20 are endangered [1, 2]. After the British Invasion, the
Aboriginal population dropped from about 1 million in 1788 to about
0.1 million in the first century through introduced disease,
dispossession, deprivation and genocidal violence. The last massacres
of Aborigines occurred in the 1920s but no Treaty has ever been
signed. Indigenous Australians were only counted after a referendum in
1967 and were finally given some protection by the 1975 Racial
Discrimination Act. In the 20th century up to 1 in 10 Aboriginal
children were forcibly removed from their mothers, the so-called
Stolen Generations. Forcible removal of Aboriginal children from their
mothers is continuing today at a record rate. Indigenous Australians
are far worse off than White Australians in relation to housing,
health, wealth, social conditions, imprisonment, deaths in custody,
forcible removal of children, avoidable death and life expectancy
[5-7] .

Article 2 of the UN Genocide Convention states: `In the present
Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with
intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or
religious group, as such: a) Killing members of the group; b) Causing
serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; c) Deliberately
inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about
its physical destruction in whole or in part; d) Imposing measures
intended to prevent births within the group; e) Forcibly transferring
children of the group to another group.’

In 2000 about 9,000 Aborigines out of an Aboriginal population of
500,000 died avoidably every year (the avoidable death rate as a
percentage of population of 1.8% pa was the highest in the world and
1.8 times that for non-Arab Africa) but by 2011 this had declined to
about 2,000 annual avoidable deaths out of a population about 670,000
(an avoidable death rate of 0.4%, the same as for impoverished South
Asia but occurring in one of the world’s richest countries). The
Australian Aboriginal Genocide and Australian Aboriginal Ethnocide is
continuing [8].

UK author Stuart Laycock in his book `All the Countries We’ve Ever
Invaded: And the Few We Never Got Round To’ covered the 193 UN member
states plus the Vatican City and Kosovo and concluded that the
British had invaded all but 22 (all but 23 if one includes the UK
itself) [9, 10] . However Stuart Laycock’s list of 22 non-invaded
countries shrinks to 10 on careful inspection as listed below:

1. Andorra (sovereignty restored by British victory against France
in the Spanish Peninsular War in 1813 but technically not invaded).

2. Belarus (part of Russian Empire invaded by Britain in 1918-1920 but
technically not invaded).

3. Central African Republic .

4. Kyrgyzstan (part of Russian Empire invaded by Britain in 1918-1920
but technically not invaded).

5. Marshall Islands .

6. Mongolia .

7. Tajikistan (part of Russian Empire invaded by Britain in 1918-1920)
but technically not invaded).

8. Uzbekistan (part of Russian Empire invaded by Britain in 1918-1920
but technically not invaded),

9. Vatican City .

10. Sao Tome and Principe .

On careful inspection one finds (as summarized below with invasion
dates in parentheses) that 13 countries in Stuart Laycock’s
`non-invaded list’ must be added to the `British invaded list’, with a
14th addition being the UK itself on account of genocidal attacks of
the English Establishment on Anglo-Saxons, and thence the Welsh and
Scots after 1066:

1. Bolivia (1879-1884; British support for and British sailors in the
Chilean Navy in the Pacific War against Bolivia ).

2. Burundi (1914-1918).

3. Chad (1940, Long Range Patrol reconnaissance to Tekro).

4. Guatemala (19th century onwards dispute over Belize ) .

5. Ivory Coast (1942-1943).

6. Liechtenstein (1945; British forces repatriated imprisoned
German-collaborating Soviet soldiers from Liechtenstein to the USSR
).

7. Luxembourg (1918, 1944).

8. Mali (2013).

9. Monaco (1815).

10. Paraguay (1859, British Navy seized the Paraguayan warship
Tacuari; Britain financed the disastrous 1865-1870 Triple Alliance
War of Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay against Paraguay in which the
Paraguyan population was reduced from 525,000 pre-war to 221,000 ) .

11. Republic of Congo (1914-1916).

12. Sweden (1808 ` The King of Sweden objected to 10,000 allied
British troops making port at Gothenburg and these British forces
subsequently left Sweden).

13. United Kingdom (genocidal attacks of the English Establishment on
English Anglo-Saxons after the Norman Invasion of 1066; 13th century
onward invasions of Wales and Scotland ).

There are now about 195 UN-recognized independent states in the world
(193 UN members plus Palestine and the Vatican) with this list
extending to 203 with a further 8 de facto states with limited or no
recognition, namely US-backed and recognized Kosovo, US-backed and
recognized Taiwan, Russia-backed and recognized South Ossetia,
Russia-backed and recognized Abkhazia, Russia-backed but unrecognized
Transnistria, Russia`backed but unrecognized Eastern Ukraine, the
Nagorny Karabakh Republic, and Western Sahara.

The British notoriously conquered Palestine in WW1 and then enabled
Zionist colonizers to ultimately take over all of the former
Mandatory Palestine and indeed ethnically cleanse 90% of Palestine of
its Indigenous Palestinian inhabitants. The British have technically
also invaded Taiwan (shelled by the British Navy in WW2), Kosovo
(technically part of Serbia that was bombed by the British in WW2 and
during the Balkans War ), South Ossetia and Abkhazia (parts of
Georgia, invaded by the British in WW1), Nagorny Karabakh Republic
(part of Azerbaijan, invaded by the British in WW1), Eastern Ukraine
(Ukraine was invaded by Britain in the 1853`1856 Crimean War) and
Moldova and the Moldovan break-away state of Transnistria (during the
1853`1856 Crimean War, the British Navy invaded the lower reaches of
the Danube River that borders on Moldova and attacked the Russian-held
Moldavian north bank) and Britain invaded both Mauritania and Morocco
from which Western Sahara derives.

The list of countries that have not actually seen British national or
mercenary forces, been invaded by British forces, bombed by the
British air force or shelled by the British navy totals 10 out of 203
and hence the number of UN-recognized countries and other
self-administering countries on the `British invaded list’ is 203-10
= 193. By way of comparison, France has invaded 80 countries [11],
the US has invaded 70 countries [12] and UK-, France-, US- , Canada-
and Australia-backed Apartheid Israel has invaded 12 (namely Egypt,
Sudan, Libya, Tunisia, Uganda, Jordan, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria,
Iraq, Turkey and the US, if one includes deadly attacks on planes and
ships of other countries outside Apartheid Israeli airspace and
waters) [8].

The consequence of British invasion was typically genocide of
Indigenous peoples, as exampled by the Australian Aboriginal Genocides
and American Indian Genocides through violence, dispossession,
deprivation and introduced disease. However in India and China , while
there were just too many Indigenous inhabitants for total
extermination, Indigenous deaths were enormous. Thus 20-100 million
Chinese died in the 19th century Tai Ping rebellion precipitated by
British imperialism and the Opium Wars, and Indian avoidable deaths
from imposed deprivation totalled 1.8 billion over 2 centuries of
British rule [4, 8]. In Africa slavery, dispossession, exploitation,
dislocation and relocation killed scores of millions and the impact of
colonialism world-wide continues under neocolonial hegemony. Thus
`annual avoidable deaths as a percentage of population’ is presently
1.0% for non-Arab Africa and 0.4% for South Asia as compared to 0.0%
for `White’ overseas European colonies (Australia, Canada, New
Zealand, Apartheid Israel and the US) [8].

1950-2005 avoidable deaths from deprivation in countries occupied by
Britain in the post-1945 era total 727 million – as compared to 147
million (French`occupied), 82 million (US-occupied) and 24 million
(Apartheid Israel-occupied) ` with the breakdown being as follows
(1950-2005 avoidable deaths/ 2005 population (both in millions, m)
and expressed as a percentage (%), the asterisk (*) below indicating a
major occupation by more than one country in the post-WW2 era) : UK
[4.411m/59.598m = 7.4%] – Afghanistan* [16.609m/25.971m = 64.0%],
Bahamas [0.007m/0.321m = 2.3%], Bahrain [0.054m/0.754m = 7.2%],
Bangladesh* [51.196m/152.593m = 33.6%], Barbados [0.015m/0.272m
5.5%], Belize [0.014m/0.266m = 5.3%], Bhutan [0.908m/2.392m = 38.0%],
Botswana [0.443m/1.801m = 24.6%], Brunei [0.020m/0.374m = 5.3%],
Cameroon* [6.669m/16.564m = 40.3%], Cyprus [0.054m/0.813m = 6.6%];
Egypt* [19.818m/74.878m = 26.5%], Eritrea* [1.757m/4.456m = 39.4%],
Ethiopia [36.133m/74.189m = 48.7%], Fiji [0.054m/0.854m = 6.3%],
Gambia [0.606m/1.499m = 47.6%], Ghana [6.089m/21.833m = 27.9%],
Greece* [0.027m/10.978m = 0.2%], Grenada* [0.018m/0.121m = 14.9%],
Guyana [0.086m/0.768m = 11.2%], Hong Kong [0.125m/7.182m = 1.7%],
India [351.900m/1096.917m = 32.1%], Iraq* [5.283m/26.555m = 19.9%],
Israel [0.095m/6.685 = 1.4%], Jamaica [0.245m/2.701m =9.1%], Jordan*
[0.630m/5.750m = 11.0%], Kenya [10.015m/32.849m = 30.5%], Korea*
[7.958m/71.058m = 11.2%], Kuwait* [0.089m/2.671m = 3.3%], Lesotho
[0.951m/1.797m =52.9%], Libya [0.785m/5.768m =13.6%], Malawi
[6.976m/12.572m = 55.5%], Malaysia [2.344m/25.325m = 9.3%], Maldives
[0.015m/0.338m = 4.4%], Malta [0.019m/0.397m = 4.8%], Myanmar
[20.174m/50.696 = 39.8%], Nepal [10.650m/26.289m = 40.5%], Nigeria
[49.737m/130.236m =38.2%], Occupied Palestinian Territories
[0.677m/3.815m = 17.7%], Oman [0.359m/3.020m =11.9%], Pakistan
[49.700m/161.151m = 30.8%], Qatar [0.029m/0.628m = 4.6%], Saint Lucia
[0.012m/0.152m = 7.9%], Saint Vincent & Grenadines [0.018m/0.121m
=14.9%], Sierra Leone [4.548m/5.340m = 85.2%], Singapore
[0.113m/4.372m = 2.6%], Solomon Islands* [0.050m/0.504m = 48.5%],
Somalia* [5.568m/10.742m =51.8%], Sri Lanka [0.951m/19.366m = 4.9%],
Sudan [13.471m/35.040m = 38.4%], Swaziland [0.471m/1.087m = 43.3%],
Tanzania [14.682m/38.365m =38.3%], Tonga [0.020m/0.106m = 18.9%],
Trinidad & Tobago [0.052m/1.311m = 4.0%], Uganda [11.121m/27.623m
40.3%], United Arab Emirates [0.087m/3.106m =2.8%], Vanuatu
[0.037m/0.222m = 16.7%], Yemen [6.798m/21.480m = 31.6%], Zambia
[5.463m/11.043m = 49.5%], Zimbabwe [4.653m/12.963m =35.9%], total
727.448m/2247.711m = 32.4%. [8].

Conclusions.

The British have invaded 193 countries out of the total of 203
countries that are UN-recognized (195) or not UN-recognized (8). In
comparison, France , the US and Apartheid Israel have invaded 80, 70
and 12 countries , respectively. The consequences of British invasion
for greed-based conquest (as opposed, for example, to invasion for
the purpose of liberation from Nazism in WW2) ranged from total or
near-total dispossession and extermination of hundreds of unique
Indigenous peoples in the Americas and Australia to the active and
passive mass murder of scores of millions in Africa and China and the
avoidable deaths from deprivation of1.8 billion Indians under the
British Raj [3, 4, 8].

History ignored yields history repeated. Britain in the 21st century
is still invading and devastating other countries ( Mali , Libya ,
Iraq , Afghanistan ) in the Zionist-promoted US War on Muslims. Not
satisfied with Britain ‘s First Syrian War (WW1) and Britain ‘s Second
Syrian War (WW2) , the UK is now presently engaged in Britain ‘s Third
Syrian War. Similarly, not satisfied with Britain’s First Iraqi War
(1914-1932), Britain’s Second Iraqi War (1941-1948) , Britain’s Third
Iraqi War (the 1990-2003 Sanctions War in which 1.7 million Iraqis,
half of them children, died avoidably from imposed deprivation),
Britain’s Fourth Iraqi War (the 1990-1991 Gulf War in which 0.2
million Iraqis were killed) , and Britain’s Fifth Iraqi War (2003-2011
in which 2.7 million Iraqi died, this including 1.5 million violent
deaths and 1.2 million avoidable deaths from war-imposed
deprivation), the UK is now engaged with its war criminal Western and
other allies in Britain’s Sixth Iraqi War (2014- onwards, with
thousands of Iraqis killed and thousands more to die from war-imposed
deprivation in what seems to be an endless war for oil and hegemony)
[13, 14].

Britain invaded Australia on 26 January 1788 and this is celebrated
as Australian Day by White Australians. However Indigenous Australians
commemorate this event as Invasion Day in remembrance of the
continuing Australian Aboriginal Genocide and Australian Aboriginal
Ethnocide in which 600 unique Indigenous groups and dialects
disappeared, with only 150 remaining and of these all but 20 severely
endangered. Britain has invaded 193 countries – all but 10 of the
world’s 203 countries – and continues to illegally and criminally
invade other countries for oil and hegemony. Invasion is the most
powerful expression of racism. Decent, anti-racist, pro-peace people
around the world should (a) inform everyone they can, (b) apply
Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against the serial invader,
nuclear terrorist, exceptionalist and still invading British rogue
state, and (c) make 26 January British Invasion Day worldwide.

References.

[1]. Ray P. Norris and Duane W. Hamacher, `Australian Aboriginal
Astronomy: overview’, 1 February 2013:
.

[2]. `Australian Aboriginal languages’, Wikipedia:
.

[3]. Gideon Polya, `Australia And Britain Killed 6-7 Million Indians
In WW2 Bengal Famine’, Countercurrents, 29 September, 2011:
.

[4]. Gideon Polya, `Jane Austen and the Black Hole of British History.
Colonial rapacity, holocaust denial and the crisis in biological
sustainability’, now available for free perusal on the web:
.

[5]. Gideon Polya, ` Ongoing Aboriginal Genocide And Aboriginal
Ethnocide By Politically Correct Racist Apartheid Australia ‘,
Countercurrents, 16 February 2014:
.

[6]. `Aboriginal Genocide’ :
.

[7]. Gideon Polya, `Film review: `Utopia’ by John Pilger Exposes
Genocidal Maltreatment Of Indigenous Australians By Apartheid
Australia ‘, Countercurrents , 14 March, 2014:
.

[8]. Gideon Polya, `Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since
1950′, this including an avoidable mortality-related history of every
country since Neolithic times and now available for free perusal on
the web:
.

[9]. Stuart Laycock , `All the Countries We’ve Ever Invaded: And the
Few We Never Got Round To’ (The History Press, 2014).

[10]. Jasper Copping, `British have invaded nine out of ten countries
` so look out Luxembourg’, The Telegraph, 4 November 2012:

.

[11]. Gideon Polya, `President Hollande And French Invasion Of Privacy
Versus French Invasion Of 80 Countries Since 800 AD’, Countercurrents,
15 January, 2014: .

[12]. Gideon Polya, `US has invaded 70 nations Since 1776 ` make 4
July Independence From America Day’, Countercurrents, 5 July 2013:
.

[13]. `Iraqi Holocaust Iraqi Genocide’:
.

[14]. `Muslim Holocaust Muslim Genocide’:
.

Dr Gideon Polya has been teaching science students at a major
Australian university for 4 decades. He published some 130 works in a
5 decade scientific career, most recently a huge pharmacological
reference text “Biochemical Targets of Plant Bioactive Compounds” (CRC
Press/Taylor & Francis, New York & London , 2003). He has published
`Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950′ (G.M. Polya,
Melbourne, 2007: ); see also his
contributions `Australian complicity in Iraq mass mortality’ in `Lies,
Deep Fries & Statistics’ (edited by Robyn Williams, ABC Books, Sydney,
2007:

) and `Ongoing Palestinian Genocide’ in `The Plight of the
Palestinians (edited by William Cook, Palgrave Macmillan, London ,
2010:
). He has published a revised and updated 2008 version of his 1998
book `Jane Austen and the Black Hole of British History’ (see:
) as biofuel-, globalization- and
climate-driven global food price increases threaten a greater famine
catastrophe than the man-made famine in British-ruled India that
killed 6-7 million Indians in the `forgotten’ World War 2 Bengal
Famine (see recent BBC broadcast involving Dr Polya, Economics Nobel
Laureate Professor Amartya Sen and others:

). When words fail one can say it in pictures – for images of Gideon
Polya’s huge paintings for the Planet, Peace, Mother and Child see:
and
.

Armenia denies Azerbaijan’s lie, declaring that there are no
Azerbaijani POWs in Armenia

16:25, 24 January, 2015

YEREVAN, 24 JANUARY, ARMENPRESS. There are no Azerbaijani captives in
the territory of the Republic of Armenia. In an interview with
“Armenpress”, head of the working group adjunct to the State
Commission on Prisoners of War (POW), Hostages and the Missing Persons
Armen Kaprielyan denied the statistics presented by his
Azerbaijani counterpart Firudin Sadigov, according to which Armenia
keeps 31 prisoners of war who are citizens of Azerbaijan.

“Azerbaijan always changes the figures whenever it makes a statement
or presents statistics. In 2009, Azerbaijan declared that there are
5,000 Azerbaijani POWs in Armenia. Later, it realized that that’s
absurd and started reducing the number. A couple of months ago, the
country declared that there are more than 40 POWs in Armenia, and now
it says there are 31 POWs. Frankly, this is already ridiculous. Even
Azerbaijan doesn’t understand what it’s doing. Every civil rights
defender and non-governmental organization presents statistics based
on some document and always changes the figures. I officially announce
once again that there are no Azerbaijani prisoners of war in Armenia,”
Kaprielyan said.

MHP DEMANDS TO KNOW IF GOV’T WILL TRANSFER LAND TO ARMENIANS

Today’s Zaman, Turkey
January 22, 2015 Thursday

Ä°STANBUL (CÄ°HAN)- A leading opposition figure has claimed that the
government is preparing to offer some land to Armenians as the 100th
anniversary of the mass deportation of Armenians from Anatolia by the
Ottoman State approaches.

“I know the AKP [ruling Justice and Development (AK Party)] has an
ongoing project [on the issue]. A professor has been advising and
working on the transfer of land to Armenians who will be brought to
Turkey,” Oktay Vural, deputy chairman of the Nationalist Movement
Party (MHP), told Today’s Zaman.

Noting that the Armenian diaspora claims as their own the land of the
former presidential residence in Ankara and some land in Ä°stanbul’s
YeÅ~_ilköy district, Vural demanded to know if it was a coincidence that
the government earlier said Ä°stanbul Ataturk Airport in the city’s
YeÅ~_ilköy district would be removed.

The former presidential residence, known as Cankaya presidential
palace, was in service until President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was
elected president in August last year.

Erdogan lives instead in a recently built presidential palace, while
the former presidential residence will be, Erdogan previously said,
allocated to the Prime Ministry.

Vural said: “Will [Ä°stanbul] Ataturk Airport and Cankaya presidential
palace be given to meet the demands of the Armenian diaspora? Is it a
coincidence that they are being evacuated at this particular
juncture?”

Armenians, as well as more than 20 countries and 41 states in the US,
accept the deportation of Armenians that began in April of 1915 as
genocide.

Armenians and some Turkish historians usually claim that around 1
million Armenians — according to some, 800,000, and to others, 1.5
million — lost their lives during the deportation, while various
Turkish sources, who maintain that the term genocide cannot be used in
this particular case, claim that the death toll was around 60,000.

According to Vural, the issue should be left for historians to
discuss. Taking steps to legitimize demands by Armenians for land and
reparations would lead to the trial of history, Vural said,
underlining that the issue should be kept outside the realm of
politics.

Such an attitude would render Turks into being slaves on their own
land, Vural maintained.

“Are we going to retry history by legitimizing the demands of those
who ask for Cankaya presidential palace and the Ataturk airport in
YeÅ~_ilköy? What will the AK Party say if some others demand to have
Ä°stanbul back saying it used to be called Constantinople?” Vural said.

He added: “Those who seek to bring old issues under the spotlight
should know that history cannot be undone by a political trial.”

Noting that some Turkish foundations used to have properties in Greek
Cyprus, which used to be part of the Ottoman Empire, Vural demanded to
know if the government would make a claim on those properties together
with those in the same category in Palestine.

Legitimizing Armenians’ demand for land and reparations would not
serve anybody’s interest, Vural said, warning that such a step would
be a heavy burden on those who took it.

Many scholars in Turkey say the deportation of Armenians was a
necessity as some of the Armenians in Eastern Anatolia collaborated
with Russian forces against the Ottoman army in fighting that took
place several months before the deportation began.

Ali Aslan Kılıc, Ankara

JUDICIAL AUTHORITIES URGED TO PRESS AHEAD WITH HRANT DINK MURDER CASE

Reporters without borders
Jan 23 2015

Published on Friday 23 January 2015.

This week saw the eighth anniversary of Turkish-Armenian newspaper
editor Hrant Dink’s murder, while the trial of his accused killers
continues today in Istanbul. Reporters Without Borders hails the recent
progress in the judicial investigation and urges the authorities to
press on to the end without letting politics influence the outcome.

The founder and editor of the weekly Agos and a leading civil society
figure, Hrant Dink was gunned down in broad daylight in central
Istanbul on 19 January 2007. A tireless campaigner for democratization
and for reconciliation between Turks and Armenians, he was the victim
of a media and judicial lynching in the run-up to his murder.

His death was a turning point for Turkish society, which began to
ignore the taboo about discussing the Armenian genocide and to debate
the fate of Turkey’s minorities more freely. Will light finally be shed
on a crime whose shock waves are still being felt eight years later?

At the end of a half-hearted trial concerned above all with protecting
the state, a court ruled in January 2012 that Ogun Samast, the
ultra-nationalist youth from the northeastern city of Trabzon who
shot Dink, did so at the behest of a single instigator, Yasin Hayal.

The Court of Cassation overturned this ruling in May 2013, opening the
way for a more thorough investigation into the suspected instigators
and those within the state who are suspected of being accomplices or
providing protection. More than a year went by before the judges in
charge of the case acted on this ruling, but the judicial investigation
is finally making progress.

“Now that the judicial system has at last removed its blinkers after
a very long wait, the testimony of police and intelligence officers
is starting to shed light on the organized nature of Dink’s murder
and the involvement of state officials, something that was obvious
from the start,” said Johann Bihr, the head of the Reporters Without
Borders Eastern Europe and Central Asia desk.

“It remains to be seen whether it is not too late to shed light on all
aspects of this murder or whether the case will again be manipulated
for political ends. Time is running out if justice is to be rendered
to Hrant Dink.”

Prolonged injustice

Investigative journalists such as Nedim Sener, Kemal Goktas and Adem
Yavuz Arslan had revealed that members of the police and gendarmerie
in Istanbul and Trabzon and members of the MIT intelligence agency
received information about the plan to kill Dink and did nothing to
prevent it.

The European Court of Human Rights reached a similar conclusion and
issued a ruling against Turkey in 2010. And after examining the case,
the offices of the president and prime minister also criticized the
police and intelligence services.

Nonetheless, the Turkish judges responsible for the various aspects
of the case continued for a long time to refuse to take account of
these facts. Obstructive manoeuvres by the police and state agencies,
combined with judicial foot-dragging, contributed to the fiasco of
the first trial and its verdicts, which Reporters Without Borders
condemned as “outrageous.”

What little progress was made at that time was due to the tireless
efforts of the Dink family’s lawyers, who conducted investigative
work that the investigating judges refused to do. It was therefore
with immense relief that Reporters Without Borders hailed the Court
of Cassation decision recognizing that Dink’s murder was a “criminal
enterprise” and not just the work of a small group of fanatics.

The appeal trial opened in September 2013 but it was not until the
end of October 2014 that the court decided to incorporate the Court
of Cassation’s findings. Since then, it has been accepted that the
police and intelligence services had a role in the murder.

Police finally treated as suspects

Most of the various components of the case were then merged into one –
an indispensible step for a better understanding. Until then, they
had been handled by different courts, which helped complicate the
case unnecessarily and led to delays, a lack of cooperation between
judges and overall lack of effectiveness.

When Reporters Without Borders visited Trabzon in September 2013,
it pointed out that it was much harder for the city’s judges to
question the behaviour of the local police because of the close
relations within the provincial elite.

The main investigations into the Istanbul and Trabzon police were
finally merged on 7 November 2014. The case of the hit-man, Ogun
Samast, who was 17 at the time of the shooting and who was originally
tried before a court for minors, was also attached to the main case.

Sentenced to 23 years in prison on a charge pre-meditated homicide
in 2012, Samast is now additionally charged with “membership of a
terrorist organization.”

The Istanbul prosecutor-general for terrorism and organized crime
has been questioning nine senior police and intelligence officials
as suspects since November 2014. They include former Istanbul police
chief Celalettin Cerrah, former Istanbul prefect Ergun Gungor, former
Istanbul police intelligence directors Ahmet Ilhan Guler and Ali Fuat
Yilmazer, and the former head of the intelligence department of the
General Directorate for Security, Ramazan Akyurek.

As a result of the initial hearings, two Trabzon police officers,
Muhittin Zenit and Ozkan Mumcu, were placed in pre-trial detention on
13 January on charges of negligence and abuse of authority for doing
nothing to prevent Dink’s murder. Phone calls reportedly established
that Zenit had been told of the murder plans.

Ercan Demir, who was recently appointed police chief of the
southeastern district of Cizre and who was working in Trabzon police
intelligence at the time of the murder, was also arrested on 19
January.

Caution

Nonetheless, problems remain. The case of Retired Colonel Ali Oz,
who headed the Trabzon gendarmerie at the time and who is being tried
before a Trabzon court on a negligence charge, has yet to be combined
with the main Istanbul trial. No progress has been registered in this
aspect of the case for the past three years, despite repeated requests
by the Dink family’s lawyers pending a Court of Cassation decision.

The recent sudden progress in the case has come at a time of extreme
tension in Turkey. The judicial system has emerged as one of the
chief bones of contention in the rivalry between the government and
its former allies in the Gulen Movement, which President Recep Tayyip
Erdogan now regards as public enemy No. 1.

A major anti-corruption investigation targeting senior government
officials that was launched last December was regarded by the
government as a Gulen Movement “conspiracy.” The investigation was
suppressed and hundreds of police officers, inspectors, judges and
prosecutors have been fired in the past few months.

These purges have made it possible to question the police, but they
do not necessarily make it more likely that the truth will emerge. In
fact, the government could again exploit the trial of Dink’s killers
for political ends, as it did already in its battle with former
officials who espouse the secularist views of the Turkish Republic’s
founder, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.

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ARMENIA STOPS BEING SUBJECT OF INTERNATIONAL RIGHT – ARA PAPYAN

17:20 / 23.01.2015

Armenia stops being subject of international right and the
Armenian-Turkish relations have started being viewed in the context
of West-Turkey, Russia-Turkey, USA-Turkey relations while Armenia
could have played a primary role and the Armenian Genocide centenary
could have been a good occasion to voice our demands, Ara Papyan,
head of Modus Vivendi think tank told the reporters today.

“Unfortunately, we could not present a serious package on the
centenary. For me each statement, letter, response must be the core
issue. I am dealing with it for years. What was the chief aim of
the Genocide? My conviction is that it was aimed at occupying our
homeland, that is to say they exterminated people to reach their goal,”
Papyan said.

He stressed that the Republic of Armenia must not only voice the
issue of Armenian statehood but the circumstance of occupation of
part of the Armenian territory by the neighboring Turkey.

Referring to the letter Serzh Sargsyan sent to the President of
Turkey, the speaker said that it should had note of accusation as he
has been invited by a president of a country who has occupied part of
the Armenian territory. “If we fail to voice this idea on the eve of
the centenary, all the other events and initiatives become senseless,”
he said.

Papyan believes that we need scientific changes, serious high-quality
researches which have not been done by now. “If tomorrow Turkey will
have an opportunity to eliminate the Armenian state without getting
any proper counter-measures and without any serious political,
military and economic consequences for it, it will do it,” he said,
stressing that for it we must not necessarily give any reason, this
reason always exists.

The speaker also said that the circumstance that many countries
refer to the Armenian Genocide through films, books, is welcoming,
but it is not our merit. “Where are we as a state?” Papyan asked.