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Kessab Attacked MARCH 29, 2014 MirTHErARoMENr IAN -Spe ctator Volume LXXXIV, NO. 36, Issue 4330 $ 2.00 NEWS IN BRIEF The First English Language Armenian Weekly in the United States Since 1932 Armenian Deputies Kessab Head to Syria YEREVAN (Armenpress) — A group of deputies of the National Assembly of Armenia — Samvel Farmanyan, Arman Sahakyan, Naira Karapetyan, Tevan Poghosyan, Edmon Marukyan and Levon Attacked Martirosyan — have left for Syria to get acquainted with the problems and the conditions of compatri - ots there. Armenian Population They issued a statement on March 24: Flees as Town Is “Armenians all over the world are shocked by the recent events in Kessab and the surrounding areas Attacked by Rebels in the result of which the resident Armenians were again deported because of the actions of the KESSAB (Combined Sources) — Asbarez Turkish Armed Forces again taking the road of newspaper reported that the Armenian-pop - migration after almost a century of the Armenian ulated town of Kessab and its surrounding Genocide. We, as Deputies of the National villages were the targets of three days of Assembly of the Republic of Armenia, assessing the brutal cross-border attacks from Turkey by incident not as internal affairs of Syria or Turkey, al Qaeda-affiliated bands. The attacks have but as an extraordinary case of massive violation of cost 80 lives and forced the civilian popula - human rights, strongly condemn the actions of the tion of the area to flee to neighboring hills. Turkish Armed Forces which, in essence, are a new Some 670 Armenian families, the majori - challenge directed to the Armenian Diaspora ty of the population of Kessab, were evacu - formed in the Middle East as a result of the ated by the local Armenian community Genocide. We call on the Syrian and Turkish leadership to safer areas in neighboring authorities to conduct an impartial investigation Basit and Latakia. upon the events. We also demand the internation - One initial report suggested that govern - al community to give an unequivocal assessment to ment forces have repelled the rebels, but - The reconfigured abstract sculpture (Matt Conti photo) these heinous cases of human rights violation by later the report was disputed. sending UN observers to the Armenian-populated The Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin areas of Kessab to document the events of the mas - II was in contact with Catholicos Aram I of Armenian Heritage Park’s sive human rights violations.” the See of the Great House of Cilicia regard - ing the state of the Armenians in Syria and asked for the shelling and murders to stop. Sculpture Reconfigured for 2014 Azerbaijan Demands BOSTON — The Abstract Sculpture, a key feature of Armenian Heritage Park on Warlick’s Dismissal the Greenway, was recently reconfigured, the third annual reconfiguration since YEREVAN (Armenpress) — A Tweet by the the park opened in 2012. Organization for Security and Cooperation in According to the 25-year configuration schedule prepared by Don Tellalian, AIA, Europe Minsk Group US Co-Chair James Warlick, the park’s designer/architect, the sculpture was reconfigured early Sunday morn - that the Nagorno Karabagh conflict is “between ing, March 23. Aurelian Mardiros, whose company, A&A Industries, fabricated the Karabagh and Azerbaijan” and not between sculpture, and Bill Martin, representing the Armenian Heritage Foundation, over - Armenia and Azerbaijan, caused a raucous in saw the configuration skillfully handled by Jerry Rigging Corporation that, for the Baku. third year, provided the cranes and rigging services pro bono. The fabrication of Warlick wrote earlier: “I was corrected today — the park’s abstract sculpture is the gift of A&A Industries and the Mardiros fami - the conflict is Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan. A scene from Kessab after it was attacked ly. Police detail and other costs associated with the annual configuration are sup - Still, we want a peaceful settlement for all parties ported by the endowed fund established by Bilezikian Family Foundation. for NK.” Former political advisor to the President Annually, the abstract sculpture, a split dodecahedron, is reconfigured, symbol - Social Democrat Hunchakian Party of Azerbaijan Vafa Guluzade stated in an interview ic of all who pulled away from their country of origin and came to Massachusetts Chairman Narek Galstyan said in a face - with an Azeri site that “it is necessary to dismiss to establish themselves in new and different ways. Commemorating the immigrant book post that the rebels are moving James Warlick from the OSCE Minsk Group.” experience, the sculpture sits atop a reflecting pool; its waters wash over its sides toward Latakia, where many Armenians Azerbaijan did not like that the American side got and re-emerge as a single jet of water at the labyrinth’s center. The sculpture is have found refuge. certain in the fact that Stepanakert should be fully dedicated to lives lost during the Armenian Genocide of 1915-1923 and all geno - involved in the negotiations to settle the Nagorno cides that have followed. see KESSAB, page 16 Karabagh conflict issue. An Azeri pro-government website called him “foolish” and expressed discontent on the fact why Washington has appointed a “diplomat, who writes Ukraine Recalls Amb. to Armenia over Crimea Recognition such unserious things in social networks” in the Minsk Group. President Serge Sargisian met with YEREVAN (RFE/RL) — Ukraine recalled US Ambassador to Armenia of his move criticized by the United States. the co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group and dis - its ambassador to Armenia on Friday after “For centuries, we fought shoulder to cussed the current state of the settlement process warning of serious damage to bilateral ties Expresses Regret shoulder against aggressors. We have thou - of the Nagorno Karabagh conflict. The meeting and demanding an official Armenian expla - sands of glorious pages of common history. took place on March 23 in the Netherlands. nation regarding President Serge This has been the case and this will be the Sargisian’s acceptance of a referendum in Asked to comment on the development, case,” he said in a speech during an awards Crimea that led to its annexation by Russia. Armenian Foreign Ministry spokesman ceremony held at the presidential palace in A spokesman for the Ukrainian Foreign Tigran Balayan said, “As soon as we receive Yerevan. Ministry said Ambassador Ivan Kukhta was the Ukrainian side’s note, we will formulate “It happens so that in the heat of time INSI DE ordered to return home for consultations. our response and decide whether or not we and events, different phenomena are per - Deputy Foreign Minister Danilo will publicize that response.” ceived in different ways,” continued Lubkivsky announced earlier in the day The Ukrainian protest stems from Sargisian. “But the great thing about time that the Armenian ambassador in Kiev, Sargisian’s remarks made during is that over time things clear up, misunder - Tufts Andranik Manukian, has been twice sum - Wednesday’s phone call with his Russian standings and disagreements disappear and moned to the Ukrainian Foreign Minister counterpart, Vladimir Putin. Sargisian was everything returns to normal. I want to Talk and handed an official note. cited by his press office as saying that the repeat that the Ukrainians are our broth - “We appealed to Armenia to officially and weekend referendum on Crimea’s secession ers.” Page 4 publicly state that it does not recognize the from Ukraine, condemned as illegal by the Sargisian spoke after handing out annu - annexation of Crimea,” Ukrainian news international community, was “yet another al Armenian presidential awards to dozens agencies quoted him as saying. “We expect example of the realization of peoples’ right of artists, writers and scientists. Olena such a response.” to self-determination through a free expres - Fetisova, the Ukrainian screenwriter, pro - “In case of statements or actions that we sion of will.” ducer and co-director of a new feature film INDEX could interpret as unfriendly, there will be Sargisian appealed to Ukrainians and about the late Sergey Paradjanov, a Arts and Living . 10 negative consequences for our bilateral rela - described them as “brothers” of Armenia renowned Soviet filmmaker of Armenian Armenia . 2 tions,” Lubkivsky warned, according to the on Friday as he sought to minimize the fall - descent, was supposed to be one of those Community News. 4 RBK-Ukraine news agency. He did not spec - out from his decision to welcome Crimea’s artists. Fetisova decided at the last minute Editorial . 14 International . 3 ify those consequences, saying only that the secession from Ukraine. not to accept the award carrying a mone - Ukrainian side will consider taking “a broad However, Sargisian stopped short of pub - tary prize of 5 million drams ($12,000) in range of measures” against Yerevan. licly explaining the implications and rationale see UKRAINE, page 2 2 S ATURDAY , M ARCH 29, 2014 T HE A RMENIAN M IRROR -S PECTATOR ARMENIA News From Armenia Armenian, Turkish Filmmakers to Meet at Festival YEREVAN (Public Radio of Armenia) ra can submit projects by March 28. Istanbul Film Festival, a nice gesture to — Turkey Cinema Platform (ATCP) is The initiative had started with short both the film’s director and main hero getting ready for its tenth meeting. The films and documentaries, produced and the ATCP. Six Sentenced in platform, promoting joint film produc - with amateur means and based on Lusin Dink’s “Saroyan Country,” tion between Turkish and Armenian human stories that moved the audi - which received financial support in Restaurant Killing filmmakers, will convene on April 14-16 ences and built cultural bridges. The 2011, is another source of pride for the YEREVAN (RFE/RL) — Six men have been sen- as part of activities on the fringes of the quality of productions, however, ATCP. It was embraced in Turkey and tenced to long prison terms after being convicted 33rd Istanbul International Film increased throughout the years.
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