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  • Vahakn Dadrian To Speak On Armenian Genocide "Second Phase" Perpetra

    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.

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