JUNE 15, 2013 MirTHErARoMENr IAN -Spe ctator Volume LXXXIII, NO. 47, Issue 4292 $ 2.00 NEWS IN BRIEF The First English Language Armenian Weekly in the United States Since 1932 Armenian Mirror- High Court Spectator Annual ‘Lost and Found’ Summer Break Seeks to Reunite WATERTOWN — The Armenian Mirror-Spectator Rebuffs will close for two weeks in July as part of its annu - Audiences with al summer break. Armenian Culture The last issue published before the vacation will Genocide be that of the June 29 issue, and the first edition back would be that of July 20. By Gabriella Gage Shahan Natalie’s Mirror-Spectator Staff Case Turkism from Angora WATERTOWN — The creators of To Baku Published in the recently released “Lost and By Bob Egelko Found in Armenia” say they want - Moscow ed to create more than just a film about Armenians — they wanted SAN FRANCISCO (San Francisco MOSCOW (PanArmenian.net) — Writer Shahan to showcase current Armenian tal - Chronicle) — The US Supreme Court Natalie’s (Hagop Der Hagopian) book titled ent and culture in the arts. refused on Monday to revive a California Turkism from Angora to Baku and Turkish The film is the story of Bill law that would allow heirs of victims of the Orientation was published in Moscow for the first (Jamie Kennedy), an American Armenian Genocide to sue in state courts time. Though the book was written more than 80 tourist and son of a US Senator who vacations in Turkey trying to mend his bro - for unpaid insurance benefits. years ago, the issues raised by the author are still ken heart. After a strange parasailing accident, Bill unknowingly finds himself in The law, passed in 2000, was struck relevant. a small village in Armenia where he is down in February 2012 by a federal According to the annotations to the publication, accused of being a Turkish spy. In a comedic appeals court, which said California was Armenia is bordered by a state that secretly and series of events, Bill meets a beautiful intruding into sensitive foreign policy ques - openly nourished the dream of the global empire, a Armenian girl (Angela Sarafyan) who helps tions that were the exclusive domain of the dream that changes its denominator from religious him navigate his plight. federal government. to secular pan-Turkism (and vice versa) regardless The film’s producer, Valerie McCaffrey The law “was intended to send a political of the political situation. As for Armenia, the book grew up in Fresno’s Armenian community message on an issue of foreign affairs” and argues that the policy of isolationism cannot prove and her mother hails from Lowell, Mass. “imposes the politically charged label of effective in a landlocked country. The author Prior to her work as a producer, McCaffrey ‘genocide,’” the Ninth US Circuit Court of argues that Armenia is in need of a dialogue with studied theater at the University of Hawaii Appeals said in an 11-0 ruling. The ruling its neighbors. before graduating from California State dismissed a class-action suit filed in 2003 Natalie (1884–1983) was a member of the University, Long Beach. She worked for eight by several hundred Armenian Americans Armenian Revolutionary Federation’s Bureau and years a casting director for Universal Studios against a German insurance company and the principal organizer of Operation Nemesis and then as the vice president of casting at two subsidiaries. wherein the Turkish masterminds of the Armenian New Line Cinema. Her film credits include The high court denied review of the rul - Genocide were assassinated. He later became a films such as “American History X,” and she ing without comment Monday. writer on Armenian national philosophy writing is credited with discovering actors such as The appeals court ruling was one of a the essay, “The Turks and Us.” Angela Sarafyan stars in the film. Jeremy Renner and Ellen Page. series of decisions that have barred Natalie’s avengers also executed several see FILM, page 12 California and other states from allowing Armenian spies and traitors, who, by denouncing victims of decades-old foreign atrocities, their kinsmen to Turkish authorities, were respon - like the Nazi Holocaust and the use of slave sible for their deaths. labor by the Japanese military, to seek redress in their courts. UCLA Gets $2 Million Gift to Establish As many as 1.5 million Armenians were Air Arabia to Begin killed in the Ottoman Empire between Armenian Archaeology Center 1915 and 1923. The California law would Flights to Yerevan have allowed descendants of Armenians YEREVAN — The United Arab Emirates-based air - LOS ANGELES — The UCLA Cotsen pora,” said Charles Stanish, director of the killed or deported during that period, or of line Air Arabia announced Monday it intends to Institute of Archaeology has received a $2 Cotsen Institute. “Each acquisition not only anyone who escaped to avoid persecution, begin offering a twice-weekly service to Yerevan, million gift from UCLA alumna Zaruhy provides insight into a small portion of this to sue insurers until the end of 2013, long starting in August. Sara Chitjian to establish the first perma - tragic but heroic drama but also provides a after the normal deadlines would Flights will depart from Sharjah International nent research program in Armenian archae - window into dozens of new questions and have expired. Airport on Tuesdays and Fridays. ology and ethnography at a major areas of inquiry. We hope that the In urging the Supreme Court to take up “Armenia is rapidly emerging as a must-visit des - American university. Hampartzoum and Ovsanna Chitjian the case, state Attorney General Kamala tination for tourists seeking great culture and his - Chitjian also donated a significant collec - Collection will be a model for others to Harris’ office said the appeals court’s rul - tory alongside fantastic scenery and outdoor activ - tion of artifacts, documents and books emulate.” ing “allows judicial censorship of state leg - ities,” said Adel Ali, group CEO, Air Arabia in a related to the history and material culture A retired schoolteacher, Chitjian earned islation because of the potential offense of statement released by the airline. of Armenia and to the Armenian diaspora her bachelor’s degree in child psychology foreign officials.” The service is to begin August 16. after the Armenian Genocide of 1915–23. and her teaching credential from UCLA. The Obama administration endorsed the The Hampartzoum and Ovsanna Chitjian She has received numerous awards and appellate ruling and asked the Supreme Collection and Archive of Armenian honors for her work and for her dedication Court to deny review. President Obama Ethnographic Artifacts and Documents, to Armenian issues, past and present. condemns the Armenian killings in annual named in honor of Chitjian’s parents, will She continues to fund research and stu - speeches but has refrained from describing be housed at the Cotsen Institute and digi - dent scholarships throughout the world. In them as a genocide. INSI DE tized, giving scholars around the world 2003, she published a memoir of her The case is Arzoumanian vs. Munchener access to this important resource. see GIFT, page 3 Ruckversicherung, 12-9. Gregory E. Areshian, assistant director of the Cotsen Institute, has been appointed Fellini at director of the new Chitjian Collection and Research Program. Genocide The gift will enable an expansion of Tekeyan research projects in Armenian archaeology Survivor Areka and ethnography, the establishment of a Page 11 public lecture series and the publication of scholarly works on the Web and in print. It Der Kazarian will also fund seminars and graduate-stu - dent conferences devoted to topics in Dies INDEX Armenian archaeology, anthropology, Arts and Living . 10 ethnography and history and to the preser - WATERTOWN — Areka (Janikian) Der Armenia . 2 vation of the cultural heritage of historic Kazarian of Watertown, survivor of the Community News. 4 Armenia and the Armenian diaspora. Armenian Genocide, passed away on Editorial . 14 “The collection represents a set of May 18, 2013 at the age of 101. International . 3 objects and letters that will provide an see SURVIVOR, page 6 invaluable insight into the Armenian dias - 2 S ATURDAY , J UNE 15, 2013 T HE A RMENIAN M IRROR -S PECTATOR ARMENIA News From Armenia Hayastan All-Armenian Fund Opens Karmir Shuka Water Network and Martuni Hospital New Mayor of Yerevan YEREVAN — Within the framework The 270 households of Karmir pital also features an advanced infec - Sworn in of the Hayastan All-Armenian Fund Shuka, comprising 1,050 residents, now tious-diseases department, with its own YEREVAN (Arminfo) — The newly elected Mayor of Board of Trustees annual meeting, held enjoy around-the-clock access to entrance. Yerevan, Taron Margaryan, a member of the in Yerevan, a delegation led by potable water, which reaches them from The hospital’s amenities include a Republican Party, was sworn in at the Yerevan Executive Director Ara Vardanyan and area springs thanks to the recently built large elevator, a boiler room, a power Municipality this week. comprising benefactors, trustees, and Attending the ceremony were President Serge representatives of affiliates worldwide Sargisian, Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II, has begun a string of project-reporting representatives of the government and the parlia- visits in Armenia and Artsakh. ment. Earlier, Barev, Yerevan, Bloc that has 6 man- The delegation, which includes close dates at the city council refused to attend to 40 members, has also started to hold Margaryan’s swearing in ceremony. opening ceremonies for recently com - Representatives of Prosperous Armenia Party have pleted projects. attended the event. Prior to traveling to Artsakh, the del - After the swearing in ceremony, Martin egation visited the Goris Cardiology Vardazaryan, a member of the Elder Council of Center, which was built with the co- Yerevan, handed the symbol of the mayor — an sponsorship of the fund’s French affili - encrusted chain — to Taron Margaryan.