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VAHAKN DADRIAN TO SPEAK ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE "SECOND PHASE" PERPETRATOR
PanARMENIAN.Net
March 29, 2012 - 13:16 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Prof. Vahakn Dadrian will present a lecture in
honor of Luther and Anne Eskijian, on Sunday, April 1 at 4 pm at the
Ararat-Eskijian Museum, in the Sheen (Geovkalayjian) Memorial Chapel,
Mission Hills, CA, Asbarez reports.
The lecture is sponsored by the Ararat-Eskijian Museum and the National
Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR). There will
be a musical program by Ani String Quartet and a reception and book
signing to follow in the Ararat-Eskijian Museum.
Salih Zeki, known as Zeki Bey, was born in the city of Samsun on
the Black Sea in 1879. By the early 1900s he had entered the Ottoman
Civil Service and began to rise through the ranks: kaymakam (county
executive) of Tirebolu (1906), Vakfıkebir (1909), Unye (1910), Bafra
(1911), AlaÅ~_ehir (1912), Ä°ncesu (1914), and Develi (1915). Serving
in this last post, near Kay-seri/Gesaria, at the outset of the Armenian
Genocide, he earned a reputation for extreme cruelty and continued
to receive promotions for his work.
In summer 1916 Zeki was appointed mutasarrif (deputy governor) of
Deir Zor and given the task that his predecessor, Ali Suat Bey, had
refused: the liquidation of the vast number of Armenian refugees
in the region. Zeki unleashed his genocidal fury against those
deportee convoys that had arrived there as destitute survivors of the
then-raging empire-wide deportations and massacres of the Armenian
people. As such, Zeki is one of the principal perpetrators of this
"second phase" of the Armenian Genocide.
Prof. Vahakn Dadrian is currently the Director of Research at the
Zoryan Institute and a pioneer in the fields of genocide theory
and comparative genocide. Dadrian is the author of several books,
including The History of the Armenian Genocide: Ethnic Conflict from
the Balkans to Anatolia to the Caucasus, Warrant for Genocide, and
the recently-published Judgment at Istanbul: The Armenian Genocide
Trials (co-authored with Taner Akcam), as well as more than seventy
articles in numerous languages around the world. He is the recipient
of many honors and awards, including the Khorenatsi Medal, Armenia's
highest cultural award. He was inducted into the ranks of the Academy
of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia in 1998.
PanARMENIAN.Net
March 29, 2012 - 13:16 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Prof. Vahakn Dadrian will present a lecture in
honor of Luther and Anne Eskijian, on Sunday, April 1 at 4 pm at the
Ararat-Eskijian Museum, in the Sheen (Geovkalayjian) Memorial Chapel,
Mission Hills, CA, Asbarez reports.
The lecture is sponsored by the Ararat-Eskijian Museum and the National
Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR). There will
be a musical program by Ani String Quartet and a reception and book
signing to follow in the Ararat-Eskijian Museum.
Salih Zeki, known as Zeki Bey, was born in the city of Samsun on
the Black Sea in 1879. By the early 1900s he had entered the Ottoman
Civil Service and began to rise through the ranks: kaymakam (county
executive) of Tirebolu (1906), Vakfıkebir (1909), Unye (1910), Bafra
(1911), AlaÅ~_ehir (1912), Ä°ncesu (1914), and Develi (1915). Serving
in this last post, near Kay-seri/Gesaria, at the outset of the Armenian
Genocide, he earned a reputation for extreme cruelty and continued
to receive promotions for his work.
In summer 1916 Zeki was appointed mutasarrif (deputy governor) of
Deir Zor and given the task that his predecessor, Ali Suat Bey, had
refused: the liquidation of the vast number of Armenian refugees
in the region. Zeki unleashed his genocidal fury against those
deportee convoys that had arrived there as destitute survivors of the
then-raging empire-wide deportations and massacres of the Armenian
people. As such, Zeki is one of the principal perpetrators of this
"second phase" of the Armenian Genocide.
Prof. Vahakn Dadrian is currently the Director of Research at the
Zoryan Institute and a pioneer in the fields of genocide theory
and comparative genocide. Dadrian is the author of several books,
including The History of the Armenian Genocide: Ethnic Conflict from
the Balkans to Anatolia to the Caucasus, Warrant for Genocide, and
the recently-published Judgment at Istanbul: The Armenian Genocide
Trials (co-authored with Taner Akcam), as well as more than seventy
articles in numerous languages around the world. He is the recipient
of many honors and awards, including the Khorenatsi Medal, Armenia's
highest cultural award. He was inducted into the ranks of the Academy
of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia in 1998.