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The Armenian Genocide in the Wake of He Is a Student at Karen Jeppe National College MAY 24, 2014 MirTHErARoMENr IAN -Spe ctator Volume LXXXIV, NO. 44, Issue 4338 $ 2.00 NEWS IN BRIEF The First English Language Armenian Weekly in the United States Since 1932 Post-Foxman Suffolk One Armenian Killed, Another Injured in Controversy, ADL Aleppo Restates Position on ALEPPO, Syria (Armenpress) — An Armenian man, Raffi Hekimian, was killed here on April 29, accord - Armenian Genocide ing to sources here. Additional information about his death has not been made available yet. BOSTON — This week, the Anti- The source also informed that on April 30, Defamation League (ADL) issued another Armenian Khajak Zhamkochian was injured after statement attempting to clarify its position his residence sustained damage from rockets. on the Armenian Genocide in the wake of He is a student at Karen Jeppe national college. the renewed attention on the ADL’s silence on or opposition to the recognition of the Armenian Genocide in the US Congress. Syrian Christians Face “Because questions continue to be raised about the Anti-Defamation League’s posi - ‘New Wave of Exodus’: tion on the Armenian Armenian Prelate genocide, we want to make clear that as we ALEPPO (PanARMENIAN.Net) — Syrian rebels said in August 2008, The proposed design are besieging Aleppo, the nation’s largest city, ADL recognizes the leading to “a new wave of the exodus of Armenian Genocide,” Christians,” a local prelate said, according to read a statement on Catholic Culture. the ADL website’s Genocide Monument to Be Built “The families waited for high school to end, Europe section. This then they took their luggage, closed their homes Abraham Foxman new statement then On Campus of Fresno State and fled to the coast and to Lebanon, using the recycles a 2008 ADL only road link with the outside world still statement on the FRESNO — Fresno’s Armenian Community has come together to form the viable,” said Armenian Catholic Archbishop Armenian Genocide. Armenian Genocide Centennial Committee (AGCC), an umbrella association Boutros Marayati of Aleppo. “Maybe they will However, a 2007 statement from ADL- established to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide come back in four months. Perhaps they will National Director Abraham Foxman throughout this year and 2015. Working under the theme “Commemoration, never come back again.” refrains from using the proper term: Education, Inspiration”, the committee is made-up of representatives from the “The areas where there are large power sta - Armenian Genocide. The “consequences of community’s religious, educational, social and political organizations. tions and water supply lines are all in the hands those actions were indeed tantamount to “The commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide is of the rebels, that open and close the valves to genocide,” stated Foxman. Furthermore, clearly a significant moment for Armenians all around the world,” said AGCC force the regime to negotiate,” Marayati told the “we continue to firmly believe that a chairman and Professor of Armenian Studies at California State University Fides news agency. “We do not know what these Congressional resolution on such matters Fresno Sergio La Porta. “As Fresno is one of the largest and most active negotiations aim to reach. We are with the peo - is a counterproductive diversion and will Armenian communities in the Western Hemisphere, I think it resonates partic - ple, and we do not understand very well what is not foster reconciliation between Turks and ularly strongly here. It is home to a proud and resilient Armenian community going on around us.” Armenians and may put at risk the Turkish and is an especially poignant place to commemorate those who died in the At least 150,000 people have been killed in Jewish community and the important mul - Genocide and those who toiled afterwards to insure that we would have a much Syria’s three-year-old civil war, a third of them tilateral relationship between Turkey, Israel better world to live in.” civilians, according to the Syrian Observatory for and the United States,” Foxman’s 2007 see FRESNO, page 16 Human Rights. statement said. Before the civil war, Syria was home to 80000 The most recent ADL statement came in Armenians. At present, about 20,000 left the advance of Foxman’s appearance at the country, mainly for Armenia, Lebanon and the Suffolk University Law School graduation on Schiff Presses Erdogan, Gul on Armenian US. About 100 Armenians have died in Syria dur - May 17. Suffolk University’s choice of ing three years of war. Foxman as the 2014 commencement speaker Genocide, Blockade of Armenia, Kessab had stirred controversy within the school’s Heffern to Travel to US student body, as well as from Armenian WASHINGTON — As part of a Erdogan called for in his statement of April American organizations, who urged the uni - Congressional Delegation to the Middle 23rd, if Turkish professors, historians, jour - To Meet with Potential versity to reconsider. “Suffolk claims to East and Asia focused on terrorism, home - nalists and ordinary citizens still faced embody diversity and be a place for all peo - land security and the war in Syria, demotion, intimidation, potential prosecu - Partners for Armenia ple, but this clearly is a speaker who does not Representative Adam Schiff (D-CA) had sep - tion or violence for expressing the convic - YEREVAN — On May 17, US Ambassador John embody those values,” Amy Willis, president arate meetings with Turkish Prime Minister tion that the Armenian Genocide is a his - Heffern traveled to the US to meet with a series of the university’s National Lawyers Guild Tayyip Erdogan, President Abdullah Gul toric fact. of potential partners in several cities. During his chapter, told the Boston Globe . and other Turkish high government offi - In his meeting with Gul, Schiff said that trip, Heffern wants to speak with various part - A protest action took place outside the cials last week. he wanted to speak for the many tens of ners on cultural tourism/preservation, as well as Citi Wang Performing Arts Center In his meeting with Erdogan, Schiff chal - thousands of his constituents of Armenian science, technology and innovation issues. His Saturday, in which those against ADL’s lenged the notion expressed by the prime descent who may never get the chance to meetings will be followed by consultations in actions and statements on the Armenian minister in a recent interview that because address the president directly. Washington, DC. Heffern will return to Armenia Genocide handed out leaflets. there are Armenian survivors still living in “You will not find one of my 80,000 on June 12. The ADL’s restatement comes on the Turkey, there could have been no genocide. Armenian constituents untouched by the heels of the American Jewish Committee’s This is the equivalent, Schiff argued, of say - Genocide,” he said. “Each of them has lost (AJC) statement on April 23 whereupon ing that because some Jews in Europe a parent or grandparent, their cousins, they call on the Turkish Government to escaped death, there was no Holocaust. brothers or sisters, or their entire family. “address the realities” of the Armenian Schiff also questioned whether it was pos - Their pain is real, their wounds are open, INSI DE Genocide. sible to have the open discourse in Turkey this is no distant relic of the past. To say, as see FOXMAN, page 16 about the events of 1915-1923 that see SCHIFF, page 16 Major Armenische Waisenteppich Issued in German Miner the White House may acquiesce Page 5 By Muriel Mirak-Weissbach to public pressure and finally put the historic rug on display. Special to the Mirror-Spectator (See Armenian Mirror- Spectator , May 10, 2014) Now BERLIN — A little book weeks, the book, written by Dr. the same volume has been pub - INDEX which has fuelled a lively debate Hagop Martin Deranian, lished in German by Verlag Arts and Living . 11 in the United States about the President Calvin Coolidge and Hans Schiler in Berlin. Armenia . 2 Armenian Genocide is now the Armenian Orphan Rug , has I had read about the rug con - Community News. 4 available to German readers. As just appeared in a second edi - troversy in the Mirror-Spectator, Editorial . 14 readers of the Mirror-Spectator tion in English, while discussion and was happily surprised to International . 3 have followed over the past is rife about the possibility that see TRANSLATION, page 13 2 S ATURDAY , M AY 24, 2014 T HE A RMENIAN M IRROR -S PECTATOR ARMENIA News From Armenia Armenia’s Defense Ministry Launches New Scholarship Program with AGBU and American University of Armenia Yerevan’s Landmark YEREVAN — AGBU, the American University Sport and Concert of Armenia (AUA) and Armenia’s Ministry of Complex in Foreclosure Defense and Armed YEREVAN (PanARMENIAN.Net) — The Karen Forces have launched a Demirchyan Sport and Concert Complex (SCC), one new scholarship pro - of Yerevan’s architectural landmarks, is on the mar- gram that will serve sol - ket as it is being foreclosed, according to the offi- diers and representatives cial website of Armenia’s Ministry of Justice. of the military. The bidding price for the complex built in 1983 The initiative was offi - was set at 19,350,000,000 drams (around $47 mil- cially announced at a Representatives of Armenia’s Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces discuss the new courses and activi - lion). According to the website, the auction closes recent meeting attended ties that the American University of Armenia will offer to service members with funding from AGBU. on May 29. by AGBU Central Board The description of the auction lot says that the member Vasken complex, situated in Yerevan’s Kentron district, is a Yacoubian, Armenia’s Defense Minister pride and confidence for Armenians seven-storied building with a total area of 46335 Seyran Ohanian and AUA President Dr.
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