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ARMENBAR APPEALS TO UN OVER PLIGHT OF SYRIAN ARMENIANS
http://www.reporter.am/go/article/2012-09-24-armenbar-appeals-to-un-over-plight-of-syrian-armenians
Published: Monday September 24, 2012
Ban Ki-moon,
Secretary General
United Nations
Nabil Elaraby, Secretary General,
The League of Arab States
Laura Dupuy Lasserre, Human Rights Council President Office of the
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
Dear Secretary General, Nation Representatives, Ambassadors, and
President:
The Armenian Bar Association is the largest organized group of Armenian
Diasporan attorneys, judges and law students in the world.
We bring to you as multinational bodies, and through each of you to
your respective countries and citizens, the plight of the Armenians
in Syria.
Our Association shares with the Republic of Armenia and all other
civic, religious and humanitarian organizations, which serve the
Armenian people worldwide, the memories and pain of the Armenian
Genocide of 1915 and the bloody ethnic purges which indelibly
marked it.
It is with those historically well-documented atrocities in mind
that we ask you to not allow history to repeat itself, while you,
your respective multi-national collectives, your individual countries,
and each of your respective governments watches from afar.
With due respect, you must not allow man's inhumanity to man to occur
yet again, as it did almost a century ago during the Armenian Genocide
and the Great Dispossession of entire cities, towns and villages.
Please join us in saying Not Again!
As the 21st century's gatekeepers of security and civilization,
and as nations that have come together under the umbrella of peace,
at what point might you extend that cover to provide shelter from the
rainfall of rockets, shrapnel and bullets hailing onto the innocent
civilians and citizens of Syria, Armenians and non-Armenians alike?
In a conflict that has claimed more than 20,000 casualties thus far
and has sent hundreds of thousands more fleeing beyond Syria's borders
to hoped-for safety, the Armenians in Syria, some of whom can trace
their ancestors as far back to the sixth century B.C., and the bulk
of those who arrived in successive waves, either as survivors of the
Armenian Genocide, or later, between 1925 and 1945, fleeing persecution
in Turkey and seeking refuge in Syria, now once again face uncertainty
and dire consequences due to the current situation on the ground.
Unless, of course, you and your leagues of nations act, and act now.
Unless you and your respective countries engage in brokering a
ceasefire and bringing about lasting peace to the people of Syria.
Armenians, wherever they have resided in Arab lands, or in countries
spanning the four corners of the globe, have always been loyalists to
their host countries and to their adopted homelands. Syrian Armenians
are no exception to this positive subscription and good citizenry.
The Syrian Armenians, and indeed all of the people in Syria,
deserve the peace and security which your charters, constitutions,
and consciences charge you with helping attain and preserve.
The Armenian Bar Association looks to each of you and your respective
nations to deliver on that promise and to replenish the certainty
of life and future to Syria and its citizens, including the
Syrian-Armenians.
Sincerely,
Garo B. Ghazarian President & Chairman Armenian Bar Association
Edvin Minassian Past President & Chairman Ex-Officio
Sara Bedirian Treasurer
Armen K. Hovannisian Past President & Vice-Chairman
Hovanes Margarian Secretary
Harry Dikranian Vice-Chairman
Vicken I. Simonian Past President & Chairman Emeritus
http://www.reporter.am/go/article/2012-09-24-armenbar-appeals-to-un-over-plight-of-syrian-armenians
Published: Monday September 24, 2012
Ban Ki-moon,
Secretary General
United Nations
Nabil Elaraby, Secretary General,
The League of Arab States
Laura Dupuy Lasserre, Human Rights Council President Office of the
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
Dear Secretary General, Nation Representatives, Ambassadors, and
President:
The Armenian Bar Association is the largest organized group of Armenian
Diasporan attorneys, judges and law students in the world.
We bring to you as multinational bodies, and through each of you to
your respective countries and citizens, the plight of the Armenians
in Syria.
Our Association shares with the Republic of Armenia and all other
civic, religious and humanitarian organizations, which serve the
Armenian people worldwide, the memories and pain of the Armenian
Genocide of 1915 and the bloody ethnic purges which indelibly
marked it.
It is with those historically well-documented atrocities in mind
that we ask you to not allow history to repeat itself, while you,
your respective multi-national collectives, your individual countries,
and each of your respective governments watches from afar.
With due respect, you must not allow man's inhumanity to man to occur
yet again, as it did almost a century ago during the Armenian Genocide
and the Great Dispossession of entire cities, towns and villages.
Please join us in saying Not Again!
As the 21st century's gatekeepers of security and civilization,
and as nations that have come together under the umbrella of peace,
at what point might you extend that cover to provide shelter from the
rainfall of rockets, shrapnel and bullets hailing onto the innocent
civilians and citizens of Syria, Armenians and non-Armenians alike?
In a conflict that has claimed more than 20,000 casualties thus far
and has sent hundreds of thousands more fleeing beyond Syria's borders
to hoped-for safety, the Armenians in Syria, some of whom can trace
their ancestors as far back to the sixth century B.C., and the bulk
of those who arrived in successive waves, either as survivors of the
Armenian Genocide, or later, between 1925 and 1945, fleeing persecution
in Turkey and seeking refuge in Syria, now once again face uncertainty
and dire consequences due to the current situation on the ground.
Unless, of course, you and your leagues of nations act, and act now.
Unless you and your respective countries engage in brokering a
ceasefire and bringing about lasting peace to the people of Syria.
Armenians, wherever they have resided in Arab lands, or in countries
spanning the four corners of the globe, have always been loyalists to
their host countries and to their adopted homelands. Syrian Armenians
are no exception to this positive subscription and good citizenry.
The Syrian Armenians, and indeed all of the people in Syria,
deserve the peace and security which your charters, constitutions,
and consciences charge you with helping attain and preserve.
The Armenian Bar Association looks to each of you and your respective
nations to deliver on that promise and to replenish the certainty
of life and future to Syria and its citizens, including the
Syrian-Armenians.
Sincerely,
Garo B. Ghazarian President & Chairman Armenian Bar Association
Edvin Minassian Past President & Chairman Ex-Officio
Sara Bedirian Treasurer
Armen K. Hovannisian Past President & Vice-Chairman
Hovanes Margarian Secretary
Harry Dikranian Vice-Chairman
Vicken I. Simonian Past President & Chairman Emeritus