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    PRESS RELEASE
    April 23, 2014

    ARMENIAN ASSEMBLY OF AMERICA
    Contact: Taniel Koushakjian
    Email: [email protected]
    Phone: (202) 393-3434
    Web: www.aaainc.org


    NEW YORK CITY RADIO INTERVIEWS MARK MOMJIAN ABOUT THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE


    Washington, D.C. - Earlier this month, former Armenian Assembly of
    America (Assembly) board member Mark Momjian, Esq. discussed the Armenian
    Genocide on WBAI/NYC 99.5 FM Radio, reported the Assembly. On Sunday, April
    13, Momjian appeared on the show "Beyond the Pale," which explores cutting
    edge Jewish culture and offers local, national, and international political
    debate and analysis from a Jewish perspective.

    A native of Philadelphia, Mark Momjian is a lawyer in private practice for
    over 25 years. An advocate for social justice and civil rights on behalf of
    numerous communities, including the indigent and homeless, Mr. Momjian is
    the current Chair of the Armenian Center at his alma mater, Columbia
    University. He previously served on the Board of Directors of the Armenian
    Assembly of America.

    Adam Sacks, host of `Beyond the Pale,' provided a compelling introduction
    of the Armenian Genocide before welcoming Momjian. He began with a
    compilation of audio testimony from then-presidential candidate Barack
    Obama, Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Robert Menendez (D-NJ), former
    U.S. Ambassadors, Holocaust scholars and academics attesting to the
    Armenian Genocide, alongside Ankara's genocide denialism. Sacks also drew
    parallels between the Armenian and Jewish experiences of the last century.
    `The 1.5 million Armenian victims of World War One constituted the
    same
    percentage of casualties of that conflict as did the Jewish victims in the
    Second World War, between 10-15 percent. Furthermore, one-third of the
    worldwide Armenian population was murdered, the same percentage as the
    worldwide Jewish population during the Holocaust,' Sacks said. =80=9CAnd what
    was unique, what one can claim as similar to the Holocaust, is that it was
    the culmination of centuries-long persecution.'

    Adam Sacks told the Assembly: `Perhaps no two peoples mirror each other as
    Jews and Armenians. Claimed poetically both as people of dreams long with
    imagination, faithful to their distinct religious traditions in which they
    were brave pioneers. They faced the challenge of living as minorities in a
    20th Century where their great gifts in many endeavors enriched their
    surrounding worlds. Rather than inaugurating an unprecedented period of
    prosperity, the greatest calamity in their long histories of suffering:
    planned, systematic genocide befell both groups leaving the surviving
    communities and the world as a whole racked with incomprehension, trauma
    and sadness. It is my sincere belief that whatever sway temporary
    geostrategic realities hold, the deeper truths and affinities of the
    Armenian and Jewish experience will fully persevere and reveal themselves
    in both history and memory.'

    A recording of the radio broadcast is available here:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5BLeZPylUY&list=UU7pLSWFBDqDlTH6igPkhl7w

    Established in 1972, the Armenian Assembly of America is the largest
    Washington-based nationwide organization promoting public understanding and
    awareness of Armenian issues. The Assembly is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt
    membership organization.


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    NR: # 2014-022
    Available online: http://bit.ly/1i9oxgi

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