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SEPTEMBER 21, 2019 Mirror-SpeTHE ARMENIAN ctator Volume LXXXX, NO. 10, Issue 4603 $ 2.00 NEWS The First English Language Armenian Weekly in the United States Since 1932 INBRIEF Statue of Armenian Ten Volumes of Italian Diplomatic Documents Genocide missionary On Armenians Soon to be Completed Will Be Erected in Canada ond and third series, directed by Marta By Aram Arkun Petricioli of the University of Florence, will YARMOUTH, Canada (PanARMENIAN.Net) — A be complete soon, when volume ten is pub- series of activities honoring Canadian nurse and Mirror-Spectator Staff lished. The first series requires more time humanitarian Sara Corning, who helped rescue and financial resources because most docu- and care for thousands of orphans during the MILAN, Italy — In the scholarly world, ments are handwritten and take more time Armenian Genocide of 1915-1923, took place the serious major projects can take years to for transcription. All the documents pub- weekend of September 14-15 in Yarmouth, Canada, complete. It took more than 20 years to lished are from the Italian Foreign Ministry including the unveiling of a bronze statue of publish two series of volumes of the Italian archives and are reproduced in their entire- Corning. archival series Documenti Diplomatici ty. The only changes made concern spelling Born in the village of Chegoggin, Nova Scotia, Italiani sull’Armenia [Italian Diplomatic and style. Canada, in 1872, Corning made it her life’s mission Documents on Armenia], and this does not Each volume is edited by a young schol- to help others. In her mid-twenties, she moved to include prior planning and preparation ar, and contains an introduction about the the United States for training and worked in New time. This series of documents will save his- events of the period it covers, an index of England for almost 20 years, before returning to torians, political scientists and other schol- names and an index of places. The majority Nova Scotia to help the 10,000 victims of the ars both time and money for decades to of documents are in Italian, but some are in Halifax Explosion. come by making primary sources on mod- English, French or Latin. In 1918, at the age of 46, Corning was certified ern Armenian history easily accessible. It is The project was and is supported finan- by the American Red Cross and joined Near East a project that should be better known to cially by a group of Italian Armenians Relief. Landing in Constantinople (Istanbul) soon Armenians around the world. through the Union of Armenians of Italy after, she helped rescue and care for thousands of The project is comprised of a first series (http://www.unionearmeni.it/documenti- Armenian and Greek orphans, often risking her life in the process, for more than a decade. of three volumes, covering the years 1879- diplomatici-it-armeni/), but independently Cover page of the first volume in the second 1890; the second series of six volumes, cov- run by academics. One of the Armenians series of volumes of Italian diplomatic docu- ering 1891-1911; and the third series of involved is Agop Manoukian. Manoukian, ments on Armenians Armenia Smoking Ban four volumes, covering 1912-1923. The sec- see DOCUMENTS, page 4 Is One Step Closer YEREVAN (Armenpress) — The cabinet on September 12 approved a bill on amending the law ‘I Am Not Alone’ on smoking in public places indoors. Healthcare Minister Arsen Torosyan said that the Premieres to bill has been debated for nearly a year and that cer- tain clauses of it will come into force later, by 2024. Standing Ovation The bill envisages banning smoking in closed areas and gradually also in semi-enclosed ones. Certain restrictions are envisaged in public trans- And Critical Buzz portation, children’s playing grounds and in health- care, educational and cultural facilities. Certain reg- At TIFF ulations are envisaged also in the direction of pro- motion and advertisements and sale of tobacco TORONTO — The documentary captur- products. I am convinced that these legislative ing Armenia’s Velvet Revolution, titled “I changes will lead to a mass cultural change among am not Alone,” directed by Garin the population to respect one another’s right to be Hovannisian and executive produced by healthy and to appreciate it. And now is the very Serj Tankian, premiered to a sold-out crowd Liza Minelli and Robert DeNiro in a scene from “New York, New York” time, it is late but we can’t delay it anymore as to Saturday evening at the Toronto what kind of a country we want to pass down to International Film Festival (TIFF). Anna our children: healthy and developed or ill and hav- Hakobyan, the wife of Armenia’s prime min- Mardik Martin, Scorsese ing difficulties,” Torosyan said, calling on restau- ister, also attended the world premiere. The rants to voluntarily adopt a smoke-free policy. head of TIFF Docs, Thom Powers, intro- Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said the objec- duced the film as a “must-see for anyone Collaborator, Is Dead at 84 tive is to give a certain amount of time to busi- who wants to make sense of recent history.” nesses. He also noted that his government has the The premiere took place at the Born in Iran to Armenian Family least number of smokers compared to all previous Scotiabank Theater and drew a capacity ones. crowd of film-lovers, entertainment execu- LOS ANGELES (New York Times) — Mardik Martin, a screenwriter who collabo- “Eighty percent of the cabinet members are non- tives, human rights leaders, and govern- rated with Martin Scorsese on films like “Raging Bull,” “New York, New York” and smokers. And it was very pleasant to record that ment officials, including Armenia’s particularly Scorsese’s breakthrough in 100 percent of the governors don’t smoke, we don’t Ambassador to Canada Anahit gritty realism, “Mean Streets,” died on know the situation in the law enforcement sector,” Harutyunyan and United States By Daniel E. Slotnik Wednesday, September 11, at his home in he said. Ambassador to Canada Richard Mills. Los Angeles. He was 84. “You might view this film as a political The cause was complications of a thriller,” said Hovannisian, the director of stroke, said Hunter Hughes, his friend and former assistant. see PREMIERE, page 3 Martin met Scorsese when they were both film students at New York University INSIDE in the 1960s. Obsessed with movies, they began to collaborate. “For a time, we were inseparable,” Scorsese said in a statement after Martin’s death. “We went to see Post-Revolution movies together, we talked about them endlessly, and then we started dream- ing up the pictures we were going to Art of Armenia make — in diner booths and on bench- es in Washington Square Park, walk- Page 14 ing the streets of Lower Manhattan or driving around the city, in hot and cold weather, in sunshine and in rain and snow, by night and by day.” Martin drew from the seedier side of INDEX New York, going to great lengths, he Arts and Living . 13 said, to dredge up realistic dialogue for Armenia . 2,3 his scripts. “I would drive around and Community News. 5 Editorial . 18 Mardik Martin in the 1960s pick up hookers, but not for the sex,” International . 4 see MARTIN, page 8 Anna Hakobyan 2 S ATURDAY, S EPTEMBER 2 1 , 2 0 1 9 T HE A RMENIAN M IRROR -S PECTATOR ARMENIA News From Armenia Pashinyan Scolds Ecologists, Jamiroquai Concert in Defends Mining in Armenia Armenia on November 6 YEREVAN (PanARMENIAN.Net) — British funk YEREVAN (RFE/RL) — Prime must lead us to one or another decision court effectively declared the blockade ille- band Jamiroquai will give a concert in Minister Nikol Pashinyan on Monday, [on Amulsar,]” he said. “And in terms of gal earlier this year and that the country’s Yerevan, Armenia on November 6 within the Silk September 16, accused environmental the truth, I find it very important that laws specify cases where riot police can use Note Festival, a Facebook event reveals. activists campaigning against the the public does not succumb to manipu- force against protesters. This concert is arranged with support from My Amulsar gold mining project of mislead- lations, including by my beloved and The protesters camped out at Amulsar Step Foundation and International Association for ing the public and said they must stop respected friends.” as well as Yerevan-based environment Development of Cultural Tourism. “demonizing” Armenia’s broader mining In that regard, Pashinyan ridiculed activists maintain that the multimillion- Founded in 1992 by front man Jay Kay, the musi- industry. some environmental protesters’ latest dollar project is too risky for the envi- cians have established themselves as one of the most Pashinyan argued that the industry claim that mining at the Amulsar deposit ronment. successful funk and acid jazz bands on the planet. accounting for more than 40 percent of would lead to not only toxic but also Pashinyan met with Lydian’s top exec- Throughout a career spanning almost 30 years, the Armenian exports would be the coun- radioactive pollution. He also said that a utives earlier this month. He said on band have sold over 30 million copies, winning try’s sole reliable source of hard curren- recent government inspection disproved September 9 that he received from them numerous music awards, including a Grammy and 4 cy in the event of a renewed war with environmentalists’ allegations about a fresh assurances to the effect that “not a MTV awards. Azerbaijan. serious risk of the collapse of a mining single liter of toxic water” would be Their album “Traveling Without Moving” holds the “Therefore, demonizing mining means waste disposal facility in the northern leaked during gold production at Guinness Book of World Records record for best-sell- dealing a blow to our national security,” Lori province.

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