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IRELAND MAN URGES LONDON TO RECOGNIZE GRANDFATHER AS ARMENIAN GENOCIDE VICTIM
09:33, 17.02.2015
Northern Ireland man Paul Manook, 64, who believes his grandfather
was killed and buried in an Armenian mass grave, has called on the
British and Irish governments to recognize the deaths as genocide,
Coleraine Times reported.
Manook said his grandfather, Manook Dishchekenian, was lined up
alongside other men in a village in modern-day eastern Turkey by
Ottoman Turkish soldiers a century ago. He was never seen again.
He said the fate for men left behind was grim.
"I have a strong feeling that they must have killed them and buried
them in mass graves," he said.
He noted that his father was then aged six.
"My grandmother realized immediately, she just took my dad and four
aunts and they escaped the village. My father was a survivor of the
genocide," he added.
Edward Horgan, a former UN soldier from Ireland and peace activist,
said a group of politicians from the Dail in Dublin was being created
to lobby on the issue.
And Paul Manook said: "Because of the geopolitics of the region the
UK does not want to touch this. Ireland is a small country, probably
they will follow the UK because they are a small country and there
are quite a lot of links together."
http://news.am/eng/news/252998.html
From: Baghdasarian
09:33, 17.02.2015
Northern Ireland man Paul Manook, 64, who believes his grandfather
was killed and buried in an Armenian mass grave, has called on the
British and Irish governments to recognize the deaths as genocide,
Coleraine Times reported.
Manook said his grandfather, Manook Dishchekenian, was lined up
alongside other men in a village in modern-day eastern Turkey by
Ottoman Turkish soldiers a century ago. He was never seen again.
He said the fate for men left behind was grim.
"I have a strong feeling that they must have killed them and buried
them in mass graves," he said.
He noted that his father was then aged six.
"My grandmother realized immediately, she just took my dad and four
aunts and they escaped the village. My father was a survivor of the
genocide," he added.
Edward Horgan, a former UN soldier from Ireland and peace activist,
said a group of politicians from the Dail in Dublin was being created
to lobby on the issue.
And Paul Manook said: "Because of the geopolitics of the region the
UK does not want to touch this. Ireland is a small country, probably
they will follow the UK because they are a small country and there
are quite a lot of links together."
http://news.am/eng/news/252998.html
From: Baghdasarian