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Armenian Genocide.” Years Ago, Resulting in One of the Tain in Kars, Near the Armenian Border APRIL 30, 2011 MirTHE rARoMENr IAN -Spe ctator Volume LXXXI, NO. 42, Issue 4186 $ 2.00 NEWS IN BRIEF The First English Language Armenian Weekly in the United States Turkey-Armenia Friendship Symbol President again Avoids Saying Being Demolished ‘Genocide’ in April 24 Statement KARS, Turkey (BBC) — The demolition of a huge Turkish statue devoted to reconciliation with WASHINGTON — On April 24, Lemkin in the 1940s. Armenia has begun, months after the prime minis - President Barack Obama issued a Said Obama in his statement, ter described it as a “freak.” statement in honor of the day, yet “We solemnly remember the hor - The 30-meter-high statue — depicting two human again, he refrained from using the rific events that took place 96 figures facing each other — was erected on a moun - phrase “Armenian Genocide.” years ago, resulting in one of the tain in Kars, near the Armenian border. Instead, he used the Armenian worst atrocities of the 20th centu - Artists had tried to save the statue, which could term “Meds Yeghern,” which ry. In 1915, 1.5 million Armenians take 10 days to dismantle. translates into the Great Calamity. were massacred or marched to The company carrying out the demolition has Armenians used the phrase pri - their death in the final days of the already cut down one of the figures using a crane, marily before the coining of the Ottoman Empire. witnesses said. word “genocide” by Raphael see OBAMA, page 12 The work, called the “Statue of Humanity,” was the creation of Turkish artist Mehmet Aksoy. When finished, it would have had one figure extending a hand to the other. “I am really sorry, sorry on behalf of Turkey,” Belmont Board Anatolia news agency quoted the sculptor as say - ing. “They can demolish it, we will re-make it.” Of Selectmen On a visit to Kars in January Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan reportedly described the monument as a “freak,” and an affront to a nearby Issue Genocide 11th-century shrine. Proclamation Education Minister in Vienna April 24 Demo By Alin K. Gregorian VIENNA, Austria (Hetq) — While in Austria on Mirror-Spectator Staff April 24, Armenia’s Education Minister Armen Ashotyan met with students from Armenia study - BELMONT, Mass. — The Board of ing in Vienna and joined them in a demonstra - Selectmen here read a proclamation into tion, calling for recognition of the 1915 the official record at their April 25 meeting, Armenian Genocide. in which they commemorated the Ashotyan also attended Easter services at the Armenian Genocide. Saint Stefan Cathedral in Vienna. Several local Armenian-Americans attended the meeting at Belmont High School’s audito - rium. Rakel Dink: Turkey Is a Selectmen Chairman Ralph T. Jones read Country Where Nobody the proclamation: “Whereas the month of April commemorates the tragic history of Ever Apologizes the Armenian Genocide of 1915; and where - Thousands of people march to the Armenian Genocide memorial in Yerevan. as over one-and-one-half million Armenians ISTANBUL (Vatan) — Rakel Dink, the widow of were killed or uprooted from their homeland Agos ’ late founder and editor-in-chief, Hrant Dink, during this horrible event; and whereas the said recently that Turkey is a country where the Genocide represents an atrocity against Armenia Marks Genocide powers-that-be don’t apologize for past mistakes. humanity which we must be continually She made her remarks at a Peace conference which reminded of; and whereas surviving Anniversary, Slams Turkish Denial kicked off in Turkey earlier this month. Armenians have relocated around the world “To express myself in Kurdish is politically YEREVAN (RFE/RL) — Hundreds of thousands of people silently marched to a banned. To be a Christian is another obstacle in hilltop memorial in the annual remembrance of some 1.5 million fellow Armenians this country. And, generally, a few of us know how slaughtered by Ottoman Turks. the Christians are called and treated everyday,” she An incessant stream of people passed through the Tsitsernakabert Memorial to said. the Genocide victims throughout the day, laying flowers by its eternal fire sur - She added she was one of the Turkish citizens to rounded by 12 inward-bending basalt columns. cope with various social and political discrimina - The day-long procession began in the morning after a traditional prayer service tions because of her Armenian nationality and held there by the leader of the Armenian Apostolic Church, Catholicos Karekin II, Christianity. in the presence of President Serge Sargisian and other top state officials. see ANNIVERSARY, page 8 INSI DE Genocide Commemoration to Include Holocaust Remembrance on May 1 Covering Jirair Hovsepian reads his statement at the meeting. NEW YORK — Thousands of Armenians, CUNY, will preside over the ceremonies. Jews and their supporters will gather Commemoration participants will Genocide in Times Square to commemorate the include Armenian Genocide survivors, to begin new and productive lives; and Armenian Genocide and Holocaust elected officials, humanitarian, cultural, pages 8-13 whereas a significant and proud population Remembrance Day on Sunday, May 1, from religious, educational and community lead - of people with Armenian heritage make their 2 to 4 p.m. ers. Presenters include Richard G. home in Belmont, Massachusetts,” the board The theme of the Armenian Genocide Hovannisian, PhD, holder of the Armenian recalls “the Armenian Genocide to remind Commemoration is “Turkey is Guilty of Educational Foundation Chair in Modern society of this tragic event in the course of Genocide: Denying the Undeniable is a Armenian History at UCLA, and Joan INDEX human events.” Crime.” Rivitz, EdD, associate director of the New Armenia . 2, 3 The resolution was brought about thanks Dennis R. Papazian, PhD, national grand Jersey Commission on Holocaust Arts and Living . 15 to a core group of residents, led by Jirair commander of the Knights of Vartan and Education and commissioner and commis - Calendar . 17 Community News. 5 Hovsepian. Hovsepian, a Town Meeting mem - founding director of the Armenian sion chair of the New Jersey Commission Editorial . 18 ber, read a statement into the record giving a Research Center at the University of on Civil Rights. Other presenters include International . ... 4 brief history of the Genocide and the plight Michigan-Dearborn, and Mary A. Papazian, Attorney Mark J. Geragos, who helped of the survivors and quest for reparations. PhD, provost and senior vice president lead groundbreaking federal class-action see PROCLAMATION, page 9 for academic affairs at Lehman College, see TIMES SQUARE, page 13 2 S ATURDAY , A PRIL 30, 2011 T HE A RMENIAN M IRROR -S PECTATOR ARMENIA News From Armenia Georgian FM Visits Armenia Government Makes YEREVAN (RFE/RL) — Georgia’s Foreign Minister Grigol Vashadze paid a Another Concession to working visit to Armenia on Tuesday, Opposition which his Armenian counterpart, Eduard Nalbandian, described as a fur - YEREVAN (RFE/RL) — The Armenian authorities ther indication of “truly friendly rela - on Tuesday formally allowed the Armenian tions” between the two neighboring National Congress (HAK) to hold a rally in a key nations. Yerevan square this Friday, fulfilling another Neither minister made any public demand voiced by the opposition alliance. statements after their talks which the Reversing its own decision announced earlier this Armenian Foreign Ministry said month, the Yerevan municipality said it has accept- touched upon “a broad range of issues,” ed the HAK’s written application to stage the including regional security and the demonstration in the city’s Liberty Square. implementation of agreements reached The municipality had rejected numerous such by the Armenian and Georgian presi - applications filed since the March 2008 break-up of dents. A ministry statement gave no fur - anti-government protests staged there by HAK ther details of the talks. leader and former President Levon Ter-Petrosian. “The first four months of this year The HAK defied the ban and rallied supporters in have already seen visits to Armenia by the square on March 17 and April 8. the president and the prime minister of As recently as on April 13, the municipal admin- Georgia,” Nalbandian was quoted by his istration refused to allow Ter-Petrosian’s bloc to press office as telling Vashadze. “The Foreign Minister Eduard Nalbandian meets with his visiting Georgian counterpart hold the next rally in the same location on the [Georgian] ministers of internal affairs, Grigol Vashadze, April 26. grounds that it had already planned to organize a defense and transport have also been “cultural event” there on the same day. here recently.” The announcement came four days after “This intensity of visits testifies to … Bacho Akhalaia visited Yerevan the day suggested that the issue was hardly President Serge Sargisian ordered law-enforcement truly friendly relations existing between before that decision initiated by high on the agenda of the trip. “I think authorities to conduct a “more meticulous” investi- Armenia and Georgia,” he said. President Mikheil Saakashvili. that the issue has already been dis - gation of the March 2008 violence that left 10 peo- It was not clear if Vashadze discussed “I don’t exclude that Vashadze’s visit cussed before, perhaps at the presiden - ple dead. in Yerevan the Georgian parliament’s is somehow connected with the annul - tial level,” he said. “It was discussed in Such a probe as well as opposition access to Liberty April 19 decision not to renew an agree - ment of that document,” Levan greater detail during the [Georgian] Square are among the three main demands voiced by ment that has allowed Russia to use Urushadze, a Georgian political analyst defense minister’s visit.” Ter-Petrosian. He has also demanded that the author- Georgian territory for making ship - said. The Armenian Defense Ministry last ities free by April 28 his loyalists remaining in prison ments to the Russian military base in Sergey Minasian, deputy director of week expressed confidence that Tbilisi’s or face a new opposition push for power.
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