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    Fiji Times Online
    April 25 2010


    TV-Witness Special
    Sunday, April 25, 2010

    Last week Witness Special, which allows viewers to travel share the
    experience of a person's journey, brought you The Secret of Deva - the
    Romanian city which is famous for its medieval castle, the legendary
    gymnast Nadia Comaneci, and for its poverty.

    The intimate and moving film told about two of Deva's promising stars,
    one eight years and another nine, who are enrolled in a sport boarding
    school which for decades has been training world class gymnasts. It
    was about innocent dreams and harsh realities that would give viewers
    a different perspective on what physical exercise really means for
    some.

    This week though, Witness Special, lets you in on the journey of
    director Ani King-Underwood.

    She is Armenian by birth but grew up in Lebanon and the UK after her
    family were driven from Turkey during the mass slaughter of hundreds
    of thousands of Armenians in 1915.

    Now she is taking her mother and aunt, respectively 84 and 86 years
    old, to visit for the first time the family home they were forced to
    flee.

    Almost the entire family of their father was massacred and their
    mother's family survived by paying off the military.

    The two old ladies have never set foot in Turkey since their parents
    fled but are determined to find the old family house, the church where
    her parents were married and to find out what they can about their
    family's history.

    * An Armenian Homecoming can be seen on MaiTV at the following times:

    Tomorrow: 7am, 3.30pm.

    Tuesday: 2am, 11.30am.

    http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=1 45215
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