‘Genocide’ Archives
Armenian genocide recalled in troubling group exhibition
BOURJ HAMMOUD: “Art is the expression of a nation’s soul,” opined Hagop Havatian. The manager of the newly founded Hamazkayin Art Gallery in Bourj Hammoud, Havatian, was explaining what he sees to be the role of culture in the Armenians’ struggle to safeguard their identity in the diaspora. [...]
Tens of thousands of Armenians march in Beirut to mark genocide
BEIRUT: Tens of thousands of Lebanese of Armenian decent rallied Saturday to commemorate the massacres of their relatives at the hands of Ottoman Turks almost a century ago, while organizers and political leaders expressed their worries at Turkey’s growing influence in the region and in Lebanon. [...]
Nearly a Million Genocide Victims, Covered in a Cloak of Amnesia
ISTANBUL — For Turkey, the number should have been a bombshell. According to a long-hidden document that belonged to the interior minister of the Ottoman Empire, 972,000 Ottoman Armenians disappeared from official population records from 1915 through 1916. In Turkey, any discussion of what [...]
SHAME ON YOU MR. OBAMA, YOU HAVE FORGOTTEN THE REV. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.’S ADMONITIONS IN EXCHANGE FOR PETTY POLITICAL POSTURING.
President Obama shamefully chose to play linguistic gymnastics with Armenian and English euphemisms to no avail. Indeed, a devious and highly offensive ploy that will cost him politically more than he may think. Although the term Medtz Yeghern is not a legally accurate interpretation of the [...]
Obama again failed to honour his campaign pledge: ANCA
Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) responded to U.S. President Barack Obama's April 24 speech for Armenian Remebrance Day. We posts the full article available on ANCA website. “In yet another disgraceful capitulation to Turkey's threats, President Obama today once again failed to [...]
World grieves for Armenian Genocide victims
Today, April 24, the world is grieving for the victims of the Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey in 1915-1923. Turkey will not admit the tragedy, the first genocide in the 20th century. Commemoration ceremonies are being held in almost all the states of the world where Armenians happen to [...]
By Michael Doyle, McClatchy Newspapers – Armenian date approaches, so does dispute over ‘genocide’
WASHINGTON — Armenian genocide commemorations continue to attract political, diplomatic and fraternal grief upon the arrival of another April 24 anniversary date. On Capitol Hill , an Armenian genocide resolution lacks the votes needed for House or Senate passage. In downtown Washington , [...]
95 Years After the Armenian, Assyrian, Greek Genocide
(AINA) -- "We have made a clean sweep of the Armenians and Assyrians of Azerbaijan." Those were the words of Djevdet Bey, the governor of Van Province in Ottoman Turkey, who on April 24, 1915 lead 20,000 Turkish soldiers and 10,000 Kurdish irregulars in the opening act of the genocide of Assyrians, [...]
Lebanon’s Armenians prepare to mark 95th anniversary of genocide
BEIRUT: As Armenians from across Lebanon gather in Bourj Hammoud Saturday to mark the 95th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, their political representatives are increasingly worried by Turkey’s growing influence in the region. While the killing of one-and-a-half million Armenians nearly a [...]
Armenia must withdraw signature, demonstrators state
A year ago, on the threshold of the 94th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, Yerevan and Ankara stated their intention to establish bilateral relations. On April 22, 2010, the Armenian side had to state its decision to suspend the ratification of the Armenian-Turkish protocols signed in Zurich on [...]