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Uttering the Unutterable: Prose About Genocide OCTOBER 26, 2013 MirTHErARoMENr IAN -Spe ctator Volume LXXXIV, NO. 15, Issue 430 9 $ 2.00 NEWS IN BRIEF The First English Language Armenian Weekly in the United States Since 1932 EU Maintains Interest in SHANT PARSEGHIAN Uttering the Armenian Cooperation YEREVAN (Armenpress) — The decision of Armenia to join the Russia-led Customs Union has brought Unutterable: a new dimension to cooperation negotiations with the European Union (EU), according to the head of the EU delegation in Armenia Traian Hristea. He Prose about made the comments on October 22 at the presen - tation of the European Integration Index 2013 for Eastern Partnership countries. Genocide Hristea noted that in this stage the relations with Armenia are important for the EU. “Certainly the decision of Armenia to join the Customs Union emerged corresponding conse - By Muriel Mirak-Weissbach quences, which are directed to change the circles of Special to the Mirror-Spectator our bilateral relations,” Hristea. He added that the Knights of Vartan Ararat Lodge Donates resources provided by the European Union for the Computers to Armenian Sisters’ Academy BERLIN — How can you express “the cooperation development should be reevaluated. unspeakable” in writing? Is it at all possi - “Today we need to review and study all the planned LEXINGTON, Mass. — It has been a tradition for the Knights of Vartan Ararat ble? The unspeakable or indescribable, in programs for Armenia. Especially those programs, Lodge to organize activities every year to raise funds for Armenian day schools this case, being the atrocities of mass mur - which concern to the creation of the deep and com - here. This year, the lodge organized a Surf and Turf Night and raised funds for both der, in the Armenian genocide of 1915, the prehensive free trade zone,” Hristea said. St. Stephen’s Armenian Elementary School and the Armenian Sisters’ Academy suffering of the Greek victims of the mas - (ASA). sacres and deportations in 1922-3, the elim - On Sunday, October 20, members of the lodge, with their Commander Jirair ination of European Jews in the Holocaust. Actor Vardan Petrosyan Demirdjian, visited the ASA and welcomed Sister Yevtoksia Keshishian, Mother Those courageous few, whether survivors In Serious Accident Superior of the sisterhood, above, seated in black, who is visiting the US from the of the catastrophic events, or their off - headquarters in Rome. Surrounded by all the sisters of the school, including Sister spring, or contemporary witnesses, who YEREVAN (ArmeniaNow) — Actor Vardan Emma Mousaian, director of the Philadelphia ASA, staff and members of the school put down their recollections and reflec - Petrosyan was taken to the hospital and operated board, Keshishian received from Demirdjian the donation of a dozen computers, tions in writing, have given birth to a vast on after surviving a car accident late last week. which will replace the computers currently at the school. The computers are used literature, the literature of memory, of According to the Ministry of Emergency for a variety of subjects, including learning the Armenian language. genocide. Situations, the accident took place on the second Keshishian thanked the Knights for their donation and promised that as long as Leading protagonists in this literary kilometer of the Yeghvard-Yerevan highway. A the community is behind the school, the school will keep its doors open. process gathered from October 11-13, report said rescuers helped take Petrosyan out of A breakfast reception followed hosted by Najeeb Diarbekerly. under the auspices of the Evangelical his BMW and also rescued the driver from other Academy in Berlin. Co-sponsors of the con - vehicle. Both were first transferred to the Yeghvard ference were the Working Group for hospital and then to the Erebuni medical center in Recognition — Against Genocide, for Yerevan. Pan-Armenian Journalists’ Group Convenes, International Understanding (AGA) and the According to the preliminary report, Petrosyan’s German-Armenian Society, Frankfurt. condition was assessed as serious. Media reports Awards Mirror-Spectator Annual Prize Peter Balakian, who had travelled from the later said that the actor had undergone a surgery US to participate in the conference, noted and was at the Erebuni medical center’s intensive YEREVAN — On October 9, the sixth Pan- Kandaharian, and ADL Press Committee that being there Schwanenwerder so near care unit and is said to have stabilized. Armenian Journalists’ Coordinating co-chairman, Hagop Vartivarian. Both the Wannsee was “heavy;” after all, it was Committee convened here, under the aus - spoke and praised the efforts of the there at the conference bearing its name pices of Diaspora Minister Hranush Hakobyan Diaspora Ministry. that the Nazi leadership met in January Armenia National Team and the Armenian Journalists’ Union. In addition, Vartivarian thanked her for 1942 to map out the “final solution to the Coach Bids Farewell Hakobyan thanked those assembled for awarding the Armenian Mirror-Spectator Jewish problem,” what was to go down in raising the issues that Armenians in the with the newspaper of the year award, history as the Holocaust. YEREVAN (Armenpress) — Armenia’s national soc - diaspora face, and also help shed light on which the ministry hands out annually, in In her opening welcome, Dr. Tessa cer team’s coach and squad manager Vardan solutions to those issues. She also present - conjunction with the Armenian Journalists’ Hofmann, founding member of the AGA Minasyan announced this week he will not coach ed a report on the Diaspora Ministry’s five Union. and one of the first in Germany to spread the national squad in the new qualification stage. years of activities. “Thank you to the ministry and to knowledge of the Armenian Genocide, “Today I met with FFA (Football Federation of The committee congratulated the Astghik Gevorkyan [of the Journalists’ quoted Theodor W. Adorno’s famous 1951 Armenia) President Ruben Hayrapetyan, and we Diaspora Ministry on its fifth anniversary. Union], for recognizing our ADL publica - remark, “To write poetry after Auschwitz is discussed several matters linked to the national She said, in turn, “Without the diaspora, tion in Massachusetts, which strives to barbaric” and noted that long before that, team. I prefer another continuation to my [coach - there would be no Diaspora Ministry. bring news form Armenia to their brothers in 1920, author Zapel Esayan from ing] career. There are several offers, specifically Without a diaspora, our programs would and sisters in the US, and also inform our Constantinople had questioned whether or from abroad, and I want to discuss them,” said not be realized.” fellow Armenians in the Homeland about not one could express the indescribable in Minasyan. The group is co-chaired by the editor of the lives of American-Americans,” literature: “It is definitely possible to relate “It is a great honor for every coach to be the Aztag newspaper in Lebanon, Shahan Vartivarian said. see UNUTTERABLE, page 7 manager of a national squad. I also would like to thank our football fans. I also would like to thank the media representatives. I have always been hon - Koutoujian Looks est with them,” Minasyan added. Back on Campaign, Hopes Community INSI DE Activism Continues Museum By Alin K. Gregorian Mirror-Spectator Staff Donor Page 10 BOSTON — It was a primary campaign that was launched when Sen. John Kerry was named secretary of state by Present Barack Obama and then Rep. Edward INDEX Markey won the special election in June to Sheriff Peter Koutoujian Arts and Living . 10 become the state’s junior senator. Armenia . 2 On October 15, the intense campaign by Community News. 4 seven Democrats and three Republicans topped the Democratic side with 32 percent Sheriff Peter Koutoujian with 22 percent of Editorial . 14 seeking to win the special primary in their of the votes in the 24 cities and towns mak - the vote. He won Watertown and Waltham International . 3 respective parties to replace Markey ended, ing up the Fifth Congressional District. handily. and state Sen. Katherine Clark of Melrose In second place was Middlesex County see KOUTUOUJIAN, page 5 2 S ATURDAY , O CTOBER 26, 2013 T HE A RMENIAN M IRROR -S PECTATOR ARMENIA News From Armenia Shift:Tech Brings Armenia to Armenian Justice Forefront of World IT Industry Minister Hosts CoE YEREVAN (Huffington Post) — lion) persons. Corruption is rampant. country’s capital Yerevan, which are Commissioner ONEArmenia and its latest venture, the “Enough looking backwards!” might reminiscent of Silicon Valley’s early Shift:Tech initiative bring tectonic be an apt motto for Sarkissian and his days when people put together giants YEREVAN (Armenpress) — Armenian Minister of change to Armenia, one project at a colleagues at ONEArmenia. In a like Apple inside small crowded Justice Hrayr Tovmasyan hosted Commissioner for time. Ad executive and entrepreneur remarkably short period of time, garages and the like. Armenia’s boom - Human Rights of the Council of Europe (CoE) Nils Patrick Sarkissian founded Sarkissian has brought together like- ing IT sector, considered to be virtual - Muiznieks on October 21. Muiznieks arrived in ONEArmenia in 2012 in order to take minded entrepreneurs and cultural ly corruption-free, accounts for no less Armenia in order to participate in the High Level advantage of that country’s remark - workers including hospitality entrepre - than 20 percent of the country’s annu - Conference on Combating Racism, Xenophobia and able brain-power and cultural strength neur James Tufenkian who produces al GDP. Not surprisingly, start-ups are Intolerance in Europe organized in the framework and to help to save a young generation gorgeous oriental carpets and has popping up all over the country. Said of Armenia’s presidency at the Ministerial of Armenians from the corruption and opened a chain of top-rated hotels David Bequette, OneArmenia’s in-coun - Committee of the Council of Europe on October 21- negativity prevalent in all post-Soviet across the country.
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