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"THE EYEWITNESS": PAIN FOR KIDNAPPED MOTHER HAS NEVER ABANDONED 100-YEAR OLD AREVALUYS AMALYAN
http://armenpress.am/eng/news/722944/the-eyewitness-pain-for-kidnapped-mother-has-never-abandoned-100-year-old-arevaluys-amalyan.html
11:08, 18 June, 2013
The Armenian Genocide initiated in the Ottoman Empire during the
World War I in the beginning of the previous century is one of the
biggest crimes against humanity. Advancing the 100th anniversary of
the Armenian Genocide the new project introduced by
"Armenpress" news agency is dedicated to the story of the
eyewitnesses and survivors of the calamity to prove the world one
more time that our demand for the recognition of the Armenian
Genocide is fair and justified. This time the project is dedicated to
the story of 100-year old Arevaluys Amalyan from Arabkir. In her
memories the Armenian Genocide and loss of her mother are
directly linked with each other.
YEREVAN, JUNE 18, ARMENPRESS. 100-year old Arevaluys Amalyan is not
fond of recalling 1915 and her birthplace Arabkir. The
eyewitness has her reasons not to respond questions regarding the
Armenian Genocide and the Turks. "The Turks murdered
Arevaluys's father in 1915 and took her mother with them on one
condition - that thus they would spare her family. She survived
along with her brother, grandfather, aunts and uncles, but her
mother, who was a very beautiful woman, had to marry a Turk,"
Arevaluys Amalyan's daughter in law - Varduhi Grigoryan stated.
The kidnapping of the Mother enabled the family a chance to stay in
Arabkir until 1926. After they moved to Batumi and then reached
Yerevan on train. Here they received arable land and settled in
Armenia permanently. Few years later Arevaluys married a blacksmith
called Sargis, who was also from Arabkir. Sargis was 6 years old
during the Genocide. Arevaluys's elder son Levik Amalyan told us: "My
father also was a person remarkable for longevity. He passed away at
the age of 99. He used to tell us about the atrocities of the Turks.
He
told us how the Turks lined up 300 Armenian on the bank of the
Euphrates River and in order to save bullets killed them by hitting
them
with canes, thus throwing them into the water."
Years passed, and Arevaluys's mother - Vergine, who was but 25 years
old, when the Turks kidnapped her, managed to find her son, who
was in Syria in 1980s, notwithstanding Arevaluys refused to see her
mother...
Among other things Varduhi stated: "Vergine said that she did not
want to remain a Turk for life, she mentioned that she wanted to die
as
an Armenian. Vergine met her son in Aleppo, but Arevaluys had no wish
to see her mother, as she did not forgive her marriage with a Turk
even at the expanse of their lives."
In addition she said that even the media referred to the fatal
meeting of the mother with her son. The 117-year old woman, who was
forced to marry a Turk and give birth to four children, managed to
preserve her Armenian identity to some extent.
Today Arevaluys Amalyan is surrounded with four children. She has two
sons and two daughters. Her elder daughter is 82-years old. The
100-old woman from Arabkir has 67 grandsons, great grandsons, and
great great grandsons.
(THE FULL VERSION OF THE ARTICLE IS AVAILABLE IN ARMENIAN)
http://armenpress.am/arm/news/722944/the-eyewitness-pain-for-kidnapped-mothe
r-has-never-abandoned-100-year-old-arevaluys-amalyan.html
Article by Tatevik Grigoryan
Photos by Samvel Berkibekyan
http://armenpress.am/eng/news/722944/the-eyewitness-pain-for-kidnapped-mother-has-never-abandoned-100-year-old-arevaluys-amalyan.html
11:08, 18 June, 2013
The Armenian Genocide initiated in the Ottoman Empire during the
World War I in the beginning of the previous century is one of the
biggest crimes against humanity. Advancing the 100th anniversary of
the Armenian Genocide the new project introduced by
"Armenpress" news agency is dedicated to the story of the
eyewitnesses and survivors of the calamity to prove the world one
more time that our demand for the recognition of the Armenian
Genocide is fair and justified. This time the project is dedicated to
the story of 100-year old Arevaluys Amalyan from Arabkir. In her
memories the Armenian Genocide and loss of her mother are
directly linked with each other.
YEREVAN, JUNE 18, ARMENPRESS. 100-year old Arevaluys Amalyan is not
fond of recalling 1915 and her birthplace Arabkir. The
eyewitness has her reasons not to respond questions regarding the
Armenian Genocide and the Turks. "The Turks murdered
Arevaluys's father in 1915 and took her mother with them on one
condition - that thus they would spare her family. She survived
along with her brother, grandfather, aunts and uncles, but her
mother, who was a very beautiful woman, had to marry a Turk,"
Arevaluys Amalyan's daughter in law - Varduhi Grigoryan stated.
The kidnapping of the Mother enabled the family a chance to stay in
Arabkir until 1926. After they moved to Batumi and then reached
Yerevan on train. Here they received arable land and settled in
Armenia permanently. Few years later Arevaluys married a blacksmith
called Sargis, who was also from Arabkir. Sargis was 6 years old
during the Genocide. Arevaluys's elder son Levik Amalyan told us: "My
father also was a person remarkable for longevity. He passed away at
the age of 99. He used to tell us about the atrocities of the Turks.
He
told us how the Turks lined up 300 Armenian on the bank of the
Euphrates River and in order to save bullets killed them by hitting
them
with canes, thus throwing them into the water."
Years passed, and Arevaluys's mother - Vergine, who was but 25 years
old, when the Turks kidnapped her, managed to find her son, who
was in Syria in 1980s, notwithstanding Arevaluys refused to see her
mother...
Among other things Varduhi stated: "Vergine said that she did not
want to remain a Turk for life, she mentioned that she wanted to die
as
an Armenian. Vergine met her son in Aleppo, but Arevaluys had no wish
to see her mother, as she did not forgive her marriage with a Turk
even at the expanse of their lives."
In addition she said that even the media referred to the fatal
meeting of the mother with her son. The 117-year old woman, who was
forced to marry a Turk and give birth to four children, managed to
preserve her Armenian identity to some extent.
Today Arevaluys Amalyan is surrounded with four children. She has two
sons and two daughters. Her elder daughter is 82-years old. The
100-old woman from Arabkir has 67 grandsons, great grandsons, and
great great grandsons.
(THE FULL VERSION OF THE ARTICLE IS AVAILABLE IN ARMENIAN)
http://armenpress.am/arm/news/722944/the-eyewitness-pain-for-kidnapped-mothe
r-has-never-abandoned-100-year-old-arevaluys-amalyan.html
Article by Tatevik Grigoryan
Photos by Samvel Berkibekyan