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    YEZIDI PUPILS HAVE THREE TEXTBOOKS IN NATIVE LANGUAGE

    ARMENPRESS
    Aug 30 2006

    YEREVAN, AUGUST 30, ARMENPRESS: When Yezidi schoolchildren in Armenia
    will go to school on September 1, when academic year here begins,
    they will find, for the first time, three text-books in their native
    language. They are the ABC, and textbooks on Yezidi language and
    literature.

    Hasan Tamoyan, head of a radio program broadcast by the Public Radio
    for Yezidis, said the Union of Yezidis was instrumental in helping
    to develop and print the textbooks. Yezidis have now media outlets-
    a 30 minute radio program and an official newspaper run by the Union
    of Yezidis.

    Yezidis, also known as Yezidi Kurds, are Armenia's largest minority
    community, numbering officially more than 40,000. Many Yezidis began
    to settle in Armenia during the Russian-Turkish wars of the 19th
    century and more fled with Armenians during the massacres of 1915.

    Neither Christian nor Muslim, practicing their own ancient rites,
    the Yezidis stayed when Azerbaijanis and Muslim Kurds fled Armenia at
    the beginning of the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute in 1988-90. They keep
    an ancient nomadic lifestyle and live by breeding cattle and sheep.
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