Author: Topchian Jane

Baku Today, Azerbaijan
May 26 2007

Armenia, Azerbaijan to hold Karabakh talks in June

26/05/2007 11:50

The presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan have agreed to hold talks in
Russia on June 9 on the status of the disputed region of Nagorny
Karabakh, diplomats from the OSCE Minsk Group said Friday.

Armenian President Robert Kocharian and Azerbaijani President Ilham
Aliyev will meet on the sidelines of an informal summit of leaders of
the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) in Saint Petersburg,
officials said.

The announcement was made by Bernard Fassier and Yury Merzlyakov, two
co-chairs of the Minsk Group, a diplomatic club aimed at resolving
the conflict, during a press conference in the Azerbaijani capital
Baku.

Armenian forces seized Nagorny Karabakh and some surrounding
territory from Azerbaijan during a war in the early 1990s that
claimed an estimated 35,000 lives and forced about a million people
on both sides to flee their homes.

A ceasefire was signed in 1994, but the two countries have cut direct
economic and transport links and failed to negotiate a settlement on
the status of the enclave.

The Minsk Group was created in 1992 by the Organisation for Security
and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to bring about a peaceful resolution
to the conflict. It is co-chaired by France, Russia and the United
States.

RA CHIEF OF GENERAL STAFF SEYRAN OHANYAN CONFERED RANK OF COLONEL-GENERAL

PanARMENIAN.Net
25.05.2007 17:38 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Today Armenian President Robert Kocharian signed an
order on conferring RA Chief of General Staff, Deputy Defense Minister
lieutenant-general Seyran Ohanyan the military rank of colonel-general,
presidential Press Office reports.

The order on appointing Seyran Ohanyan as Chief of General Staff of
the Armenian Defense Ministry was signed on May 11. Before May 10,
2007 he occupied the post of NKR Defense Minister.

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHES 2007 HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT ON AZERBAIJAN

Today.Az
/
24 May 2007

Governments and armed groups around the world are using "the politics
of fear" to crush human rights and encourage dangerous divisions in
society, according to Amnesty International’s 2007 human rights report,
released on Wednesday.

Regarding Azerbaijan the report says that rights to freedoms of
expression and assembly were restricted. Police routinely used force
to disperse demonstrations. Opposition journalists were attacked,
imprisoned or fined on criminal defamation or dubious drugs-related
charges. Opposition politicians were denied rights to due process and
reportedly in some cases medical care and access to legal counsel of
their own choosing. A journalist was extradited to Turkey despite
being at risk of torture or other ill-treatment. People internally
displaced by the conflict in Nagorno Karabakh in 1991-94 had restricted
opportunities to exercise their economic and social rights.

Freedom of expression under attack

Rights to freedoms of expression and assembly were routinely
restricted.

Police dispersed authorized and unauthorized meetings, reportedly
with excessive force on occasion.

â~@¢ Two serious assaults on opposition journalists Fikret Huseynli
and Baxaddin Xaziyev, attacked in March and May respectively by
unidentified assailants, were unsolved at the end of 2006.

â~@¢ Two further assaults by unidentified men took place in late
December. Ali Orucov, press secretary of the opposition Azerbaijan
National Independence Party, suffered bruising and a fractured
finger. Nicat Huseynov, a journalist with the Azadliq newspaper,
was hospitalized with head and internal injuries and a stab wound
after being attacked in the street in broad daylight.

â~@¢ No progress was made in investigating the murder in 2005 of
newspaper editor Elmar Huseynov, widely believed to have been killed
because of his criticism of political corruption.

â~@¢ Criminal defamation proceedings were brought against several
individuals and newspapers. They resulted in the imprisonment of two
journalists, who were pardoned and released in October, and a number
of suspended sentences and heavy fines, in one case leading to the
closure of independent newspaper Realny Azerbaydzhan.

â~@¢ Well-known satirist and government critic Sakit Zahidov of the
Azadliq newspaper was arrested on charges of drug-dealing in June. He
claimed drugs had been forcibly planted on him after he was abducted
and then arrested by plain clothes policemen. After no evidence of
drug-dealing was presented at his trial, the charge was reduced to
use of illegal drugs. However, a urine test at the time of arrest
reportedly showed no evidence of drug usage, and doctors called as
witnesses admitted that their diagnosis of Sakit Zahidov as a drug
addict was based on 30 minutes’ visual observation only. He was
sentenced to three years’ imprisonment. His appeal was rejected in
December; reportedly no new evidence or witnesses were presented at
the hearing.

â~@¢ On 24 November the Azadliq and Bizim Yol newspapers, the Institute
for Reporter Freedom and Safety (a media freedom non-governmental
organization with close links to Azadliq), the independent journalists’
association Yeni Nesil and the Turan news agency were forcibly removed
by police from their premises in Baku following a legal ruling they
claimed was unfounded and politically motivated. Also on 24 November
the National Radio and Television Council decided not to extend the
broadcasting licence of the ANS television company, widely regarded as
the most independent in the country. The cessation of ANS broadcasting
further ended the retransmissions on ANS frequencies of international
radio stations such as the BBC, Radio Liberty and the Voice of America.

Following international and national appeals, on 12 December ANS
was reinstated temporarily pending completion of a tender for its
frequencies scheduled for January 2007.

Unfair trial concerns

â~@¢ Three leaders of the Yeni Fikir youth movement arrested in 2005
on charges of plotting a coup d’etat were imprisoned in July after an
unfair trial. At the trial, only witnesses for the prosecution gave
evidence and no jury was appointed, in contravention of Azerbaijani
law. Allegations of torture in the case of one of the accused, Ruslan
Bashirli, were not investigated, and medical care was reportedly
denied to another, Said Nuri.

â~@¢ Opposition party activist Qadir Musayev was imprisoned in May for
seven years following conviction on charges of drug dealing. Reports
suggested the charges were fabricated because of his refusal to
sign fraudulent election result protocols when serving as a polling
station official.

â~@¢ Former Minister for Economic Development Farhad Aliyev and his
brother Rafiq (no relation to President Aliyev), arrested in October
2005 on charges of plotting to violently overthrow the government,
were allegedly denied due process in pre-trial detention. According
to reports, their right to legal counsel of their choosing was
consistently denied from the time of their arrest, and Farhad Aliyev
was not allowed access to appropriate medical care. No hearings have
been heard in the brothers’ case, and no trial date set. Their property
has been expropriated and family members allegedly intimidated.

Risk of torture

On 13 October, Kurdish journalist Elif Pelit was extradited to Turkey,
where she was detained on charges of membership of the Kurdish Workers’
Party (PKK). In 1999 she had been granted asylum, and subsequently
citizenship, in Germany. She was first arrested in Azerbaijan on
4 November 2004, for crossing the border illegally from Iraq while
on assignment for Mesopotamia, a Kurdish news agency linked to the
PKK. Fined and released in March 2005, she was immediately rearrested
under Turkey’s extradition order, and her extradition was confirmed
by the Supreme Court in October 2005.

Restricted rights for the displaced

People internally displaced by the conflict in Nagorno Karabakh
continued to have their freedom of movement restricted by a cumbersome
internal registration process linking eligibility for employment
and social services to a fixed place of residence. Although there
was progress in moving the displaced out of temporary shelters and
providing housing, many new purpose-built settlements were located in
remote and economically depressed areas. People re-housed in these
settlements faced a lack of jobs and access to basic services such
as education and health care.

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ONCE SEEN, NEVER FORGOTTEN

Time Out, UK –
May 23 2007

Patrick Bokanowski’s forgotten masterpiece, ‘L’Ange’ (1982) This
week, Londoners will get a rare chance to marvel at the unique work
of Patrick Bokanowski, an overlooked genius of film, according to
Gareth Evans.

After seeing ‘L’Ange’ at Cannes in 1982, the legendary French critic
Michel Chion described it in Cahiers du Cinema as ‘a "2001" produced
under the same conditions as "Eraserhead"’. Surely such a work is
part of cinema’s canon – even its cult wing? Sadly not, but for anyone
who was in the Cannes audience that day, or who saw it in its limited
Paris, US and Japanese releases, Patrick Bokanowski’s extraordinary
feature is likely to have remained an unforgettable experience.

In these days of global DVD retrieval of even the most obscure
grindhouse ‘classics’, it is rare to encounter the works of a filmmaker
one is astonished by, and whose absence from conventional registers of
the ‘great’ feels scandalous. Armenian documentarist Artavazd Peleshian
is one such giant; Bokanowski is another. Both share a preference
for the short form and both exist in dialogue with other art forms,
especially painting, poetry and music. But both also make films that
deploy the unique qualities of cinema, sculpting with image, sound,
colour and light to provoke an imaginative response.

Bokanowski, who lives in Paris with his wife and long-time
collaborator, musician Michele, is at once a technical pioneer,
advancing the visual reach of cinema with every film he makes, and an
artisan, a dedicated craftsman in the same vein as Jan Svankmajer,
Stan Brakhage or the Brothers Quay. Over 35 years, and in fewer
than ten shorts and one feature, he has developed a personal cinema
unfettered by narrative but resonant with a visual viscerality.

Studying photography, optics and chemistry, he works with mixed media
– live action, models, engravings – but manipulates the image in a
frame-by-frame optical printing process that allows engagement with
the very building blocks of film.

‘What makes me begin a new film,’ he says, ‘is nearly always an
impulse, a desire – or a sort of technical fury which pushes me to
try and see something that I’ve not already seen. Often, my trials
lead to nothing; but sometimes, I find one or more methods, then
images, then sequences that seem to work, that stand up to my own
doubts and criticisms. Little by little, a central thread appears,
less the result of ideas than desires.’

His 1991 short ‘La Plage’ took a day in the life of a beach and
turned it into a symphony of phenomena that embodied the delights
of sun and surf, the pleasures and the solitude of the shoreline,
through an intensifying distortion of the image that felt closer to
the experience of being there than any realist approach.

It is, however, in ‘L’Ange’ (1982) that the full scale of his
achievement is evident. A truly unclassifiable 70 minutes of pure
cinema, it follows an unidentified wanderer as he or she climbs a
vast staircase within an undefined space. Unsettling and disturbing
episodes occur on various landings: a suspended puppet is savagely
sliced, a Vermeer-esque maid repeatedly brings milk until the jug
smashes, a bald man combs his head in a tin bath, tiny figures try
to rescue a naked woman in a vast landscape – while the journey is
interspersed by brilliant flashes of light and great floods of water.

The location is unclear, the journey’s purpose obscure, but the impact
of the work, working visually and sonically deep into the unconscious
and the imagination, is neither. Very rare screenings of Bokanowski’s
work in London this week will provide a singular encounter with a
genuine artist of the cinema.

Patrick Bokanowski will introduce his films at the Cine Lumière on
May 22.

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MUFTI OF REPUBLIC OF SYRIA VISITS ARAM I CATHOLICOS

Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
May 23 2007

ANTELIAS, MAY 23, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. Within the framework
of his patriarchal visit paid to Syria, Aram I Catholicos of the Great
House of Cilicia received Sheikh Hasun, the Mufti of the Republic
of Syria, at the National primacy of the Berio Diocese. Sheikhs of
different regions, secular members of the Islamic Council as well
as the Ambassador of Indonesia to Damascus were in the staff of the
many-membered delegation accompanying Mufti.

Issues interesting for Lebanon, Iraq and in general Middle East
were touched upon during the meeting lasted for about one hour. The
positive presence of the Armenians of Syria as well as existence of
the Armenian communities were attached importance to as an example
of co-existence between the religions.

The issue of the Armenian demand, necessity of its recognition by
the international community were also emphasized during the meeting.

On the same day leaders of all the Christian communities of Aleppo and
its surroundings also visited His Holiness Patriarch. His Holiness,
welcoming them, emphasized the importance of the cooperation among
the Christian churches.

MEMBER OF RPA FACTION SURE THAT JUST LAW ENFORCERS MUST INVESTIGATE THE INCIDENT IN GYUMRI

ArmInfo News Agency
2007-05-21 13:28:00

"Let law enforcers investigate the shootout in Gyumri. I have no
information to comment on the incident," Armen Ashotyan, a member of
the Republican Party of Armenia faction, said at "Hayatsk" Discussion
Club, Monday.

Asked if the shootout was a result of a conflict between two local
political parties, Armen Ashotyan said: "There is always political
envy. Let’s wait and see what the investigation will show."

As it was reported earlier, Spartak Ghukasyan, the son of Gyumri Mayor
Vardan Ghukasdyan, and Rustam Sargsyan, the son of Artashes Sargsyan,
the former head of Shirak Regional Administration Department for Town
Planning, participated in a shootout in the town of Gyumri at 8:15pm
on Sunday. A. Sargsyan was responsible for Prosperous Armenia party
in the 34th single-mandate district.

RFE/RL regional correspondent reports that the incident took place
in 10-15 metres from the store belonging to the Sargsyans. Law
enforcers surrounded the area at 9:00pm. The number of bullets found
on the spot exceeded 20. No one of the witnesses agreed to register
for giving testimonies as they feared for their safety. The Hummer
belonging to the son of Gyumri Mayor and another car were hounding
Rustam Sargsyan’s Jeep and the cross fire started. A young man at
the age of 29 was wounded in leg. His name is not made public in
the interests of investigation. The wounded underwent operation at
11:00pm. It is not known if he was just a passerby or a participant
in the incident. Shirak Regional Prosecutor’s Office has initiated a
criminal case. The cars disappeared from the place of the incident. A
Hummer was found in the area of the city bus station at 10:30pm
without numberplate and damaged with bullets, the source reports.

According to preliminary information, a few days ago, Spartak Ghukasyan
and Rustam Sargsyan had a conflict that could be for both personal and
political reasons. Gyumri Mayor Vardan Ghukasyan heads Shirak Regional
Department of the Republican Party of Armenia, while Rustam Sargsyan’s
father is in the head of the regional office of the pro-governmental
Prosperous Armenia party. There is information that Rustam Sargsyan
was also wounded. However, this information has not been officially
confirmed so far.

‘SMALL STEPS FOR BIG TOMORROWS’: SCHOOLS PROMOTE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

Today’s Zaman, Turkey
May 18 2007

Sabancý University’s Community Involvement Project (CIP) team recently
gathered Ýstanbul schools and universities together for the first
collaborative meeting to support and further school outreach programs.

On May 6 at the Karakoy Ýletiþim Merkezi 12 schools met for a day-long
seminar. Those institutions that have established outreach programs —
or who are beginning such programs — were invited to participate in
the event, the goal of which was to share information on each others’
projects, discuss best practice and to relate common problems in order
to brainstorm solutions. Along with Sabancý University, education
centers in attendance were Boðazici University, Koc University,
Fatih University, Galatasaray University, Iþýk University, Marmara
University, Istanbul International Community School, Robert College,
Alev Lisesi, Ýnanc Lisesi and Koc School.

What is a community involvement project?

CIP can be any program that promotes active philanthropy, a quality
that is not always a naturally occurring phenomenon. Of the groups
present at the conference, major areas of social outreach focus on
children, education, environment, the elderly, the handicapped and
human rights.

"Taking an interest in helping others is something that needs to
be cultivated," says Tara Hopkins, head of Sabancý’s program. "No
government in any country can or should take care of all people in
need," she advises, noting that for a society to work everyone needs
to lend a hand. Meltem Turkoz from Iþýk University adds, "Giving and
participating are character traits that can be learned and can be
taught." Turkoz underscores that the emotional reward that comes from
reaching out is a strong reinforcement that encourages individuals to
continue contributing to outreach programs later in their adult lives.

Hopkins maintains that, "In a truly participatory democracy the onus
is on the individual to help create a better world, both for themselves
and for those around them."

Sabancý CIP lends experience

Since 1999 American teacher Tara Hopkins has been running Sabancý
University’s CIP department to teach their students that "every
individual not only can but is obliged contribute positively to
society." As Hopkins explains, "Our goal is to teach a new generation
of people to be aware, involved, responsible and advocate positive
change." Supportive from the start, the university made Hopkins’ class
a one-year mandatory requirement for all incoming freshmen, though
many students eagerly volunteer with the project for years afterwards.

The program has thrived so well that in 2004 it won a $250,000 grant
from the Open Society Institute of the Soros Foundation for Hopkins
and her students to visit other universities in Turkey and abroad to
share know-how and demonstrate effective strategies for schools to
set up similar programs of their own. Hopkins plans to help initiate
the same CIP curriculum at new universities in Turkey each year;
to-date 13 other universities in Turkey have risen to the challenge,
as have universities in Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan,
Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan.

After having established a firm foundation for their own CIP program
(which currently contains over 1,000 active members), Hopkins and
team have taken the first steps to develop an active and ongoing
collaboration between Ýstanbul schools and universities who share the
same philosophy: that everyone has the time and social obligation to
help where help is needed.

The May 6 collaboration conference in Karakoy included a survey of
why the participants think community involvement is important and
necessary. Alicia Kapudað, a high school student and student council
representative from Ýstanbul International Community School (IICS)
says, "At our school community service comes second nature to students,
because our curriculum includes it or has it as a required element
at every grade level starting from preschool. But even though parts
of it are ‘required,’ it doesn’t feel like a chore. We look forward
to community service projects because it feels really good to know
you’ve helped someone. I can’t imagine not getting involved."

For many of the schools, though, community service is a relatively
new offering– one that they are thrilled to have. They feel it is
necessary because: "It helps us feel our humanity"; "It educates
hearts as well as minds"; "It creates world citizens"; "It helps us
learn by teaching and to receive through giving"; "It teaches us
appreciation for what we are given. We are lucky and have hope —
we want to spread that hope"; "We believe that a small group of
dedicated people can change the world."

Succinctly expressed in Tuðce Canbolat’s presentation for Boðazici
University, "Kucuk adýmlar, buyuk yarýnlar" (small steps for big
tomorrows). As one school quoted Theodore Roosevelt, "To educate a
man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society."

"One problem we all face at one point or another is demotivation,"
says Hakan Baba, a Sabancý University senior and consulting supervisor
for CIP. "Sometimes the emotional commitment is so intense that when
projects take longer than expected to implement or if it doesn’t have
the desired result volunteers can become disheartened."

"Student are not yet required to take our social responsibility
programs, so our efforts are dependent on and can be limited by student
interest," says Omer Bilgicli of Fatih University. "Therefore we have
to develop the most engaging methods to interest students."

"If students don’t yet have the culture of giving it can be a challenge
to recruit them," echoes Meltem Turkoz.

"Sometime students are unprepared for the intensity of the experience,"
says Murat Yucel of Boðazici, referring to their Big Brother/Big
Sister program. "The young children become attached quickly and can
be very adversely affected if the volunteer suddenly decides not to
turn up on a visiting day."

These and other problems are some of the many difficulty realities
that can stunt outreach projects if not effectively addressed. The
conference ended on an optimistic note with a brainstorming session
to help address some of these issues.

Sabancý University plans to arrange follow-up meetings as well as
implement an information portal for involved schools to pool data and
resources, identify opportunities for mutual cooperation, and to move
forward with more momentum and support.

Reaching out to beyond the education sector, Sabancý’s CIP also has
plans underway for a conference in fall for the business sector. The
corporate responsibility seminar will heighten the need for businesses
to be involved in philanthropic efforts and provide strategies for
increasing their participation.

For more information see

18.05.2007

JENNIFER EATON GOKMEN ÝSTANBUL

photo: Institutions that have established social outreach programs or
that are beginning such programs participated in a day-long seminar
hosted by Sabancý University’s Community Involvement Project to
share information on each others’ projects, discuss strategies and
brainstorm solutions to commonplace problems.

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ARMENIAN GENOCIDE DENIAL: THE CASE AGAINST TURKEY
By Alan S. Rosenbaum, Special to the CJN

Cleveland Jewish News, OH
May 18 2007

The official policy of the government of Turkey continues to deny
the Armenian genocide ever happened.

The genocide occurred in the twilight years of the Muslim Ottoman
Empire at the outset of World War I.

Jews ought to be in the forefront of those who condemn this policy
of denial because many scholars refer to the Armenian genocide as "a
dress rehearsal for the Holocaust." (In fact, a number of officials
in the Nazi Reich got their early training by helping the Ottoman
Turks deal with their so-called "Armenian problem." In addition,
the Jewish community grasps well the malicious, cynical effects of
government-sponsored Holocaust denials.

The deliberate falsification of historical realities denies to an
aggrieved people (the Armenians) the right to have their history
publicly validated and to have claims for restorative justice
fulfilled. Yet, the national director of the Anti-Defamation League
(ADL), Abraham Foxman, recently advised against our involvement in
this matter since it is between Turkey and Armenia. Unlike Foxman,
I believe no political considerations are sufficiently worthy to
falsify or ignore genocide.

The Turkish Penal Code (Art. 301) makes it officially punishable to
"insult Turkishness." This code has been used to prosecute prominent
Turks like Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk (2006), who write or speak about
the Armenian genocide; some, like journalist H. Dink, have even been
killed. The Turkish government insists that Turks, Armenians and
Kurds were all victims of killings and of the chaos that enveloped
the region as the Ottoman Empire collapsed.

Countries like Canada, Germany and Austria criminalize the teaching or
preaching of Holocaust denial. In France, it is now illegal to deny an
instance of genocide when history proves otherwise. The European Union
has just ratified a law "banning incitement to or denial of genocide"
(arguably including both the Holocaust and the Armenian genocide).

In a full-page statement in The New York Times (June 9, 2000),
I and 125 other scholars, including Nobel Prize-winner Elie
Wiesel, historian Yehuda Bauer, and sociologist Irving Horowitz,
signed a document "affirming that the WW I Armenian genocide is an
incontestable historical fact and accordingly urge the governments
of Western democracies to likewise recognize it as such." We called
the genocide "a dark chapter of Ottoman-Turkish history."

Subsequently, the U.S. Congress has repeatedly tried and failed to
pass a non-binding resolution to ask the government of Turkey to
acknowledge this reality.

In any case, a true friendship between Turkey and America, Israel
(with whom it often shares military exercises and intelligence), and
some other nations should not be based on sidestepping or supporting
a deliberate falsification of history as important as genocide.

Like promoting hate speech, it degrades the humanity of the truly
"victimized" by denying them the right to possess their own history.

Alan S. Rosenbaum, Ph.D., is professor of philosophy, Cleveland State
University and editor of Is the Holocaust Unique? (2nd edition).

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SERZH SARKISIAN VOICED CONFIDENCE THAT EACH NEW ELECTION IN ARMENIA WILL BE BETTER THAN THE PREVIOUS ONE

Mediamax News Agency, Armenia
May 16 2007

Yerevan, May 16. /Mediamax/. Armenian Prime Minister Serzh Sarkisian
stated in Yerevan today that the government will continue taking
steps to improve the electoral system of the country.

As Mediamax was told in the press service of the government, the
Prime Minister said this during the meeting of the newly-appointed
Ambassador of Italy to Armenia Massimo Lavezzo Cassinelli.

The diplomat congratulated Serzh Sarkisian on the successfully held
elections and the victory of the Republican Party of Armenia.

The Prime Minister voiced confidence that each new election in
Armenia will be better than the previous one. "No one can say that the
electoral system in his/her country is so perfect, that there are no
efforts to be made in that direction", Serzh Sarkisian stressed.

ONESIDEZERO HEADLINES SAVE DARFUR BENEFIT CONCERT

Metal Underground, MD
May 16 2007

ONESIDEZERO will headline the "Amplify Your Voice Against Genocide"
benefit concert June 9th, 2007 at the El Rey Theater in Los Angeles
with support from Red Snow, Slow Motion Reign and Vokee featuring
former members of The Apex Theory. All proceeds from the show will
go to the Save Darfur Coalition ().

"Just like our Armenian Genocide, the Holocaust, the Native Americans
discovered and conquered, Rwanda, and now a current genocide in Darfur,
Sudan. We gather together to amplify our voices against genocide,"
says Onesidezero guitarist Levon Sultanian. "I am the offspring of
martyrs of a genocide perpetrated 92 years ago. I bear testimony to the
atrocities imposed upon my people. I can empathize with others in the
same position. That is why I participate in the Darfur demonstrations,
and I do so through my music."

ONESIDEZERO is gearing up for the release of their Ulrich Wild
(Static-X, Stabbing Westward, Taproot) produced sophomore album,
which is slated for June 5th, 2007 release by Corporate Punishment.

"The last 5 to 6 years have been some of the most insane and most
amazing times of my life. Onesidezero as a band have grown so much
together in this time. We went through the ups and downs of life and
after some new demos under our belts started the rebuilding process
of Onesidezero," says Sultanian. "It was really exciting to bring in
all these news songs into th e recording studio after working on them
at home and at rehearsal for over a year. Hope everyone digs them as
much as we do!"

The band released their Maverick Records debut Is This Room Getting
Smaller in 2001, which produced Active Rock singles "Instead Laugh"
and "New World Order". Subsequent US tours with Incubus, 311, Soulfly,
Soil and Static-X made them an instant fan favorite.

The band is currently previewing two new tracks on the group’s MySpace
account for fans to preview material from their forthcoming new album.