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The Armenian National Committee of Australia (ANC) Condemned Foreign LEXINGTON, Mass MARCH 2, 2013 MirTHErARoMENr IAN -Spe ctator Volume LXXXIII, NO. 33, Issue 4278 $ 2.00 NEWS IN BRIEF The First English Language Armenian Weekly in the United States Since 1932 Armenians Escape Sargisian Certified Injury in Blast DAMASCUS (Armenpress) — A bomb fell near Saint As Winner of Rita Church located near the Homenmen Hunchakyan club in the Damascus Bab Tuma Presidential Vote Christian district on February 24. A number of Armenians were gathered for a local woman’s Protests Continue Led by funeral, but the incident reportedly left no one harmed and the church unscathed. Raffi Hovannisian The bomb blast was the result of recent clashes held in Abbasin Square and adjacent districts dur - YEREVAN (Combined Sources) — ing the night. The situation had allegedly calmed by Armenia’s Central Election Commission the morning of February 26. has officially certified President Serge According to United Nations data, more than Sargisian as the winner of the February 18 70,000 people were killed during 23 months of presidential election. ongoing clashes, with at least four-dozen Armenian The commission announced the official casualties. election results on February 25. Protestors in Yerevan It said Sargisian was reelected with 58.6 percent of the vote, while former Foreign Man Kidnapped in Minister Raffi Hovannisian came in second “Moving forward, I hope, that Armenia negotiated settlement of Nagorno- with nearly 37 percent. will continue to increase transparency, Karabagh conflict, and I ask you to contin - Aleppo Released US Secretary of State John Kerry con - encourage pluralism and active participa - ue to give your full support to the co-chairs YEREVAN (Armenpress) — Nerses Aghaian, who gratulated Sargisian on the occasion of re- tion of citizens in governance and reforms, of Minsk Group. We cannot be satisfied was kidnapped in one of Aleppo’s suburbs last election. “I congratulate you on the occa - as well as resolve other issues raised by with maintenance of the status quo. We week, has been released after paying the ransom sion of re-election. February 18 presidential OSCE,” Kerry said. should find the moment to ensure visible demanded. Aghaian, 60, had been kidnapped in an elections are an addition to the base of He added that he hoped the US and support in peace process. I look forward to Aleppo suburb on February 20. 2012 parliamentary elections and I am glad Armenia would cooperate in order to pro - working with you, as well as with Armenian Jirair Reisian, spokesman of the Berio Diocese, that press and media ensured balanced cov - mote democratic and economic reforms. nation in order to strengthen bilateral ties said the situation appears calm. erage of campaign,” Kerry said. “I remain committed to support your and historical friendship,” Kerry said. Kerry noted that he agrees with prelimi - country, in order to find the peaceful and see VOTE, page 2 nary conclusions of OSCE/ODIHR obser - ANC Australia vation mission, that in general elections were well-organized, with protection of fun - Condemns Genocide damental freedoms. He also noted that Benefit Concert for Syrian there is still some work to be done. ‘U-Turn’ Armenians Planned in Boston SYDNEY, Australia — The Armenian National Committee of Australia (ANC) condemned Foreign LEXINGTON, Mass. — In response to the plight and predicament of the Syrian Minister Bob Carr for his recent reversed position Artsakh Celebrates 25th Armenian communities, the Greater Boston Armenian Community has organized a on the Armenian Genocide. In his remarks at the benefit concert to provide much needed humanitarian assistance. Lowy Institute Carr called the Armenian Genocide Anniversary of National Titled “The Benefit Concert for the Syrian Armenian’s Relief Fund,” and featur - a ‘‘historical dispute’’ and stated that the Liberation Movement ing many renowned artists and local cultural organizations, the event will be held Australian government ‘‘will not take a stand on it.” on Saturday, April 20, at 7:30 p.m. at the National Heritage Museum of, 33 Marrett Australian Armenians have expressed their dis - STEPANAKERT (PanARMENIAN.Net Road. appointment at Carr’s “u-turn position” on the and Armenpress) — President of the Tenor Yeghishe Manucharyan and his wife, mezzo-soprano Victoria Avetisyan, will Armenian Genocide. In 1997, Carr became a cham - Nagorno Karabagh (Artsakh) Republic perform, joining soprano Knarik Nerkararyan, violinist Levon Chilingirian and pion and leader of the Armenian cause, culminat - Bako Sahakyan issued an address on the pianists Lilit Karapetian-Shougarian and Zaven Parsamian. Hamazkayin’s Erebouni ing in a successful motion in the Parliament of New 25th anniversary of the National Liberation Dance Ensemble, Sayat Nova Dance Company, Abaka School of Music’s dance South Wales. That motion called on the federal gov - Movement on February 20. group, Zangakner Performing Arts Ensemble, as well as the Arev Armenian ernment of Australia to follow his lead to recognize “Twenty five years ago this day proved to Ensemble will also perform. the Armenian Genocide. be pivotal for Artsakh and the whole All proceeds of the concert will be donated to the Syrian Armenian Relief Fund. ‘‘In this country we never forget what happened Armenian people. The entire nation stood Tickets for this event are $75 and $35. Seating is limited and early reservation is to the Armenians between 1915-1923. Let us with a peaceful and legitimate demand in strongly recommended by writing to [email protected]. honor the victims of the Armenian Genocide,” Carr line with the fundamental norms and prin - The Syrian Armenian Relief Fund is a national initiative with the mission to pro - had said. ciples of international law to restore histor - vide immediate assistance to the Syrian Armenians. According to the United The group has sent a letter to Carr asking him to ical justice, defend our violated dignity, Nations, more than 4 million people inside Syria are in desperate need of aid. Some return to his “moral convictions” on the Genocide. rights and liberties,” Sahakyan said. 2.5 million have been displaced by the civil war but remain in Syria while 70,000 ‘‘Now as foreign minister, with the ability to see “Our nation’s struggle against foreign have lost their lives. About 850,000 are believed to have fled the country, including through the objective of that motion, you have yoke, nearly seven decades of persistent vio - an estimated 15,000 Armenians. Armenian communities and businesses have been seemingly decided that this issue is too difficult for lence and oppression was at the very basis severely affected: churches and more than 150 private residences have experienced you to pursue. You have not only decided that the of the 1988 Movement. Despite all of that, either direct or indirect damage during the fighting. government doesn’t want to ‘take a stand’ on the the national liberation outburst did not More information is available at www.SyrianArmenianReliefFund.org. issue, but you have also joined the disgraced line of see ARTSAKH, page 16 Armenian Genocide denialists by referring to the events as a ‘historic dispute,’” the letter stated. A Cathedral on the INSI DE Verge of Collapse: The Campaign to Save Mren An Interview with Exile and Dr. Christina Maranci Memory By Lucine Kasbarian Page 10 MEDFORD, Mass. — Dr. Christina Maranci, Arthur H. Dadian and Ara T. Oztemel Associate Professor of Armenian INDEX Art and Architecture at Tufts University, has Arts and Living . 10 issued a call to save the seventh-century Armenia . 2 Mren Cathedral of Western Armenia, locat - Community News. 4 Editorial . 13 The cathedral of Mren ed in the Kars region of present-day Turkey. International . 3 see MREN, page 16 2 S ATURDAY , M ARCH 2, 2013 T HE A RMENIAN M IRROR -S PECTATOR ARMENIA News From Armenia Hovannisian Becomes Latest Runner- New Indian Ambassador Up to Dispute Election Outcome To Armenia Appointed silent on this statement. Though, the where the political parties at the helm RPA itself admits that there were irreg - of the state have always opted for YEREVAN (Armenpress) — India appointed Suresh By Naira Hayrumyan ularities in the ballot, but “they did not reshaping laws to fit their needs, and no Babu as the ambassador to Armenia on February affect the course and the outcome of code of honor has been formed within 26. YEREVAN (ArmeniaNow) — Almost the election.” more than two decades of formal President Serge Sargisian congratulated the all presidential elections in the history When an athlete is caught using per - democracy in Armenia. newly ambassador on his appointment and stated of independent Armenia were followed formance-enhancing drugs and other The maverick presidential candidate, that he is confident that the Armenian-Indian rela- by protests, with the second-placed can - stimulants he or she gets banned from Andreas Ghukasyan, who was on a tions will continue to develop. didate disputing the official outcome the race and is usually stripped of all month-long hunger strike throughout Both Babu and Sargisian, spoke to the impor- and claiming massive fraud in favor of the election campaign, tance of amicable relations between the two coun- the government candidate. The 2013 demanded from the tries and the twenty years of cooperation they have election is no exception in this sense. very beginning that the already experienced. Heritage Party leader Raffi RPA, which nominated Hovannisian, who garnered nearly 37 President Sargisian as a Olympic Wrestler to Go percent of the vote, insists that a con - candidate in the race, siderable number of votes have been be disqualified, arguing On Hunger Strike stolen from him and that in fact he is that this party’s partici - the rightful winner and not the incum - pation by itself implied YEREVAN (Armenpress) — Olympic wrestling cham- bent president, Serge Sargisian, whose unfair elections.
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