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    WE REMEMBER, WE FORGIVE, WE SEEK JUSTICE
    By Madeleine Mezagopian

    AMMON NEWS
    http://en.ammonnews.net/article.aspx?articleNO=16445
    April 24 2012

    With great sorrow and pain today, April 24th, the Armenians in
    the Republic of Armenia and world-wide, joined by their friends,
    remember the genocide of One and Half a Million Armenians during
    1915-1918. To those who question this most tragic and inhuman event,
    I say all Armenians in Diaspora, whose ancestors unarmed and helplessly
    watched their brethrens being massacred were left with one choice of
    fleeing their lands leaving behind their properties to avoid having
    their wives, daughters and sisters being raped and eventually all
    getting massacred, are witnesses of the genocide.

    Today, as devout Christians, we don't seek revenge. Today, as
    devout Christians, we approach the people of Turkey, not the Turkish
    Government, the Turkish people who then and now are Armenians' friends,
    neighbors and partners. The Turkish people whose songs many Armenians
    sing, whose food many Armenians cook and enjoy it as the Armenians
    enjoy singing Armenian songs and eating Armenian food. We tell the
    Turkish people:

    We remember the miseries inflicted on our ancestors by your past
    Turkish tyrants.

    We forgive the Turkish perpetrators for the sake of you the people
    of Turkey.

    We approach you the people of Turkey, not the Turkish Government,
    seeking justice through recognizing the genocide for the souls of
    the one and a half million massacred for once and for all to attain
    eternal peace.

    Today, We remember the injustice inflicted on the Armenians. But
    equally and with great gratitude and appreciation we remember each
    country with its people, with its governments who provided a safe
    heaven for every Armenian refugee.

    Today, We the family of late Manuel and Anjel Mezagopian, with immense
    love, remember the Hashemite Family, the Jordanians in every part of
    beloved Jordan not least in Karak and the people of Jerusalem where
    my grandfather Roupen Mezagopian found safe and sacred heaven for
    his family among the families of Karak and among the Jerusalemites.

    Today, every Jordanian of Armenian origin expresses, with great pride
    and respect, loyalty to Jordan, to the Jordanian People and to Jordan's
    Hashemite leadership.

    Today, We approach the Divine Providence to embrace not only the
    Armenian victims of the Genocide, but all victims of injustice in
    the heavenly Kingdom.

    Today, We pray for God to enlighten and empower the Turkish people
    towards having their government acknowledge the genocide paving the
    way for truth and reconciliation which above all will best serve the
    interests of Turkey and of the Turkish People.

    Today, We Remember, We Forgive, We Seek Justice.

    Madeleine Mezagopian Amman, April 24, 2012 Jordan


    From: Baghdasarian
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