APRIL 26, 2014 MirTHErARoMENr IAN -Spe ctator Volume LXXXIV, NO. 40, Issue 4334 $ 2.00 NEWS IN BRIEF The First English Language Armenian Weekly in the United States Since 1932 Heffern Says Obama’s Genocide Billboard April 24 Statement Will Removed from Be Forceful YEREVEN (Armenpress) — US Ambassador to MBTA Property in Armenia John Heffern told journalists at a briefing on April 21 at the Armenian Genocide Museum- Cambridge Institute conference hall, marking the opening of the exhibition titled “The First World War: allies, CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Just about one characters, massacres,” that the US president will week before the 99th anniversary of the make strong statement on April 24. Armenian Genocide, Peace of Art was noti - “Secretary of State Kerry and President Obama fied by Clear Channel that the Armenian are well aware of these events. There will be a very Genocide commemorative billboard, which strong statement, admitting the fact that 1.5 mil - had been on display at Lechmere Station lion Armenians were massacred,” he added. (It has had to be removed. It seems that this year, since been learned that Obama’s statement was a an anonymous entity has deemed the mes - near-identical rehash of last year’s comment.) sage on the billboard, “Recognize the Speaking about the exhibition, he mentioned that Crime of the Century, the Armenian the work led by the Armenian Genocide Museum- Genocide,” to be political and thus Institute and its director Hayk Demoyan, helps to required to be removed from the MBTA Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov with his Armenian counterpart, Eduard educate people: “This is the reason I’m here.” property. However, the 2013 message read Nalbandian “Honoring the memory of 1.5 million lives lost, Armenian Genocide. Recognition and More Armenians Die in condemnation” was displayed on the same location without incident, offered by the Nalbandian, Lavrov Meet in Moscow as Aleppo billboard company. Warlick Prays for Karabagh Settlement ALEPPO (Armenpress) — Several Armenians who had Peace of Art, Inc., is a non-profit educa - been injured during bombings or clashes with armed tional organization registered with the MOSCOW (PanARMENIAN.Net) — Armenian Foreign Minister Eduard insurgents were laid to rest this week in Aleppo. Massachusetts Secretary of State, and tax Nalbandian met in Moscow with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov to dis - With the collaboration of the Armenian exempt under section 501 (C) 3. One of its cuss Armenia’s joining the Customs Union and Common Economic Space, as Apostolic, Catholic and Protestant communities on projects is to sponsor billboards to bring well as the Eurasian Economic Union. April 21, a funeral service was held at St. Mary’s awareness to the Armenian Genocide. The ministers also touched upon a number of bilateral and international Armenian Apostolic Church of Latakia for 24-year- Since 2003 Peace of ART, Inc., has spon - issues, including resolution of the Nagorno Karabagh conflict. old Gevorg Juryan and all the deceased Kessab- sored the Armenian Genocide commemora - Meanwhile, Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Armenians. tive billboards calling for the recognition of Minsk Group US Co-chair James Warlick tweeted: “What a wonderful Easter! My Former Aleppo resident Karo Manchikyan, who the Armenian Genocide. prayer is for a lasting settlement on #Nagorno-Karabakh. How can the US help? is now in Latakia, reported that on March 22 the Clear Channel, the billboard company, We must find a way.” militants dragged Juryan out of home and took him informed Peace of Art, Inc. that it classified see MEETING, page 3 to an unknown destination. A few days ago infor - the billboard message as a political aware - mation was released that he had been murdered. ness message, “one of two sides of an According to Manchikyan, because of negotiations issue” and it was required to remove the with the militants, the boy’s uncles received his billboard located at Lechmere Station and body. There is no further information about the offered to place the billboard in one of two Harvard to Host ‘Evening of Remembrance: murder. unsold locations in Cambridge. Therefore, The news of Juryan’s murder had given rise to for the remainder of the month of April, the Armenia, The Holocaust and Rwanda’ various interpretations. The problem was that the Armenian Genocide commemorative bill - family did not believe the news of his death. board can be seen on the intersection of CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — On Sunday, April 27, Harvard Kennedy School’s Carr Center Juryan’s parents are in Latakia. Massachusetts Avenue and Walden street in Another Armenian, Sargis Martirosyan, who was Cambridge. for Human Rights Policy and the Harvard Foundation are cosponsoring “An Evening injured in Aleppo 10 days ago, died. Sources local - Daniel Varoujan Hejinian, the president ly said that the funeral was held on April 22 at the of Peace of Art, Inc., stated that the removal of Remembrance: Armenia, The Holocaust and Rwanda,” at the Harvard Science Holy Virgin Church. is unjust and unjustified. He further stated On April Martirosyan was injured by a bomb and that “it doesn’t matter how many sides an Center, Hall B, 6 to 8 p.m. Documentary filmmaker Carla Garapedian missile fractions. He was taken to a hospital, but his issue has, the truth has only one side. The condition was severe. Armenian Genocide is recognized by 21 will speak about the Armenian Genocide. Garapedian directed the documentary In Aleppo, on April 18, 22-year-old Baghtik countries and 42 states including Keshishian, who had been injured a few days earli - Massachusetts.” “Screamers,” which was released in early 2007 on the Armenian Genocide. Also men - er as a result of clashes with the armed radical tioned in the film are the Jewish Holocaust, opposition groups, died. He had volunteered to the Rwandan Genocide and the genocide of serve in the Syrian army. the Darfur region. The movie examines the According to the U.N. data, in the course of the Koutoujian Delivers problem of why genocides repeat, with con - three-year conflict in Syria, the number of the vic - Personal Talk at Tufts tributions from Pulitzer prize-winning tims has exceeded 130,000. The number of author Samantha Power, now US ambas - Armenians killed is more than 80. sador to the United Nations. In addition to speaking about the By Alin K. Gregorian Armenian Genocide, she will be the event’s Carla Garapedian Mirror-Spectator Staff master of ceremonies. Garapedian has worked with the INSI DE MEDFORD, Mass. — Middlesex County University of Southern California-based Steven Spielberg in 1994, to help digitize Sheriff Peter Koutoujian delivered the Shoah Foundation Institute’s Visual Armenian Genocide oral histories. address at the annual commemoration of the History Archive, founded by filmmaker see HARVARD, page 16 Armenian Genocide at Tufts University on Uncover April 16, at the university’s Goddard Chapel. Koutoujian spoke from the heart about Traces what it meant as a young man to become Suffolk Students Criticize Choice of Abraham aware of his Armenian heritage and issued a Page 10 called to action for the members of the Foxman for Commencement Speaker Armenian-American community to become the law school’s commencement speaker. more involved with politics, starting at the The critics cite Foxman’s opposition local level, in order to get their voices heard. By James Sullivan to US congressional recognition of the The focus of his talk was zartonk , the INDEX 1915 massacre of Armenians as geno - reawakening of Armenian intellectuals in Arts and Living . 10 BOSTON (Boston Globe) — Some stu - cide and to the building of an Islamic the 19th century, with a resurgence of lit - Armenia . 2 dents at Suffolk University are protesting community center and mosque near the erature and literary publications, as well as Community News. 4 the administration’s selection of World Trade Center site. Editorial . 14 new translations of European literary mas - Abraham Foxman, national director of Students have launched an online International . 3 terpieces and a resulting quest for social the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), as see FOXMAN, page 16 justice in the Ottoman Empire. see KOUTOUJIAN, page 16 2 S ATURDAY , A PRIL 26, 2014 T HE A RMENIAN M IRROR -S PECTATOR ARMENIA News From Armenia Azeri Journalist Jailed on Prof. Says it Is Inevitable For Turkey to Face Past Charges of ‘Spying for Armenia’ YEREVAN (Armenpress) — Turkey will have to meet BAKU (RFE/RL) — An Azerbaijani ten for Zerkalo on an almost daily basis Mirkadyrov has lived in Turkey with with its past, and it should be done in three rounds. journalist and political analyst has been have generally focused on the unre - his family for the past three years. He is In an interview, reflecting on the Armenian-Turkish deported from Turkey and arrested in solved Nagorno-Karabagh conflict and said to have told a colleague shortly relations, expressed his opinion the lecturer of Azerbaijan on charges of high treason broader regional geopolitics. Since the before his arrest that he got in trouble History Department of Istanbul’s Bilgi University, reportedly stemming from his repeated late 1990s he has repeatedly visited with the Turkish authorities immediate - Prof. Bulent Bilmez, who was present at the two- trips to Armenia. Armenia for regional or Armenian- ly after Turkish Prime Minister Recep day conference on “The Caucasian Front of the Rauf Mirkadyrov, a veteran columnist Azerbaijani forums sponsored by Tayyip Erdogan’s April 7 visit to Baku. First World war: Genocide, Refugees and for the Baku-based newspaper Zerkalo , Western governments and private insti - Another Azerbaijani journalist, Mahir Humanitarian Aid,” held at the Armenian Genocide was put on a plane in Ankara over the tutions.