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OUR DEAD HAVE NAMES: IN HOMAGE TO ARMENIAN GENOCIDE VICTIMS
[ Part 2.2: "Attached Text" ]
10:13, 24 Mar 2015
Siranush Ghazanchyan
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By Jean Eckian
Within a month, on April 24, 2015, the Armenian community will
commemorate the Genocide of 1915 which was perpetrated by the Young
Turks government of Ottoman Empire.
In turn, our sons and daughters should not have to struggle to make
the Turkish State recognize the ignominy of the Genocide inflicted on
our people. Their future should be normal and happy within a society
that has made peace with itself. This is why we are making a solemn
call to the whole community so that every one of its members can
witness the drama that has affected them personally in 1915.
We are asking men and women from all continents to stand vigilant, as
the memory of the Martyrs is decried, as unprecedented violence is
being inflicted on the sons and daughters of the survivors of the
Armenian Genocide, and as the very existence of our identity,
symbolized by the vestiges of our culture, is being willfully wiped
out.
Today, Armenians are the target of the denial of the crime of which
their parents were innocent victims.
Scorned, bruised, exasperated, but nevertheless Armenian, we have to
tell the world, once and for all, that the time for geopolitical
procrastination has passed. We are not claiming to be victims, but
protesters for simple justice. The first of these is to allow us to
pay respect to our graveless parents' remains. We will do this on
April 24, as we have done every year since 1916.
In the absence of burial sites, www.inhomage.com website I created
in 2005 (only online), enables every one of us to write in the names
of those who lost their lives on our ancestral soil. Once this has
been done, another task will be invoked: to ensure the permanent
recognition of the Genocide of the Armenian people and the inevitable
consequences of recognition.
Brought to task, the Turkish government has embarked on an
unprecedented campaign of denial of strength of which Armenians would
again be the victims.
Therefore, on the occasion of the 100th commemoration of this human
cataclysm, we call upon each of to resist falling into silent consent
by visiting the website now at www.inhomage.com to see for
yourselves and to help show that our dead have names. This is our
duty.
Jean Eckian is a freelance journalist, the co-organizer of the
recording "For you Armenia,1989â~@³ (Aznavour for Armenia) and
the creator of the only Armenian memorial on Internet
www.inhomage.com with the support of Charles Aznavour
http://www.armradio.am/en/2015/03/24/our-dead-have-names-in-homage-to-armeni
an-genocide-victims/
[ Part 2.2: "Attached Text" ]
10:13, 24 Mar 2015
Siranush Ghazanchyan
[Map-620x300.jpg]
By Jean Eckian
Within a month, on April 24, 2015, the Armenian community will
commemorate the Genocide of 1915 which was perpetrated by the Young
Turks government of Ottoman Empire.
In turn, our sons and daughters should not have to struggle to make
the Turkish State recognize the ignominy of the Genocide inflicted on
our people. Their future should be normal and happy within a society
that has made peace with itself. This is why we are making a solemn
call to the whole community so that every one of its members can
witness the drama that has affected them personally in 1915.
We are asking men and women from all continents to stand vigilant, as
the memory of the Martyrs is decried, as unprecedented violence is
being inflicted on the sons and daughters of the survivors of the
Armenian Genocide, and as the very existence of our identity,
symbolized by the vestiges of our culture, is being willfully wiped
out.
Today, Armenians are the target of the denial of the crime of which
their parents were innocent victims.
Scorned, bruised, exasperated, but nevertheless Armenian, we have to
tell the world, once and for all, that the time for geopolitical
procrastination has passed. We are not claiming to be victims, but
protesters for simple justice. The first of these is to allow us to
pay respect to our graveless parents' remains. We will do this on
April 24, as we have done every year since 1916.
In the absence of burial sites, www.inhomage.com website I created
in 2005 (only online), enables every one of us to write in the names
of those who lost their lives on our ancestral soil. Once this has
been done, another task will be invoked: to ensure the permanent
recognition of the Genocide of the Armenian people and the inevitable
consequences of recognition.
Brought to task, the Turkish government has embarked on an
unprecedented campaign of denial of strength of which Armenians would
again be the victims.
Therefore, on the occasion of the 100th commemoration of this human
cataclysm, we call upon each of to resist falling into silent consent
by visiting the website now at www.inhomage.com to see for
yourselves and to help show that our dead have names. This is our
duty.
Jean Eckian is a freelance journalist, the co-organizer of the
recording "For you Armenia,1989â~@³ (Aznavour for Armenia) and
the creator of the only Armenian memorial on Internet
www.inhomage.com with the support of Charles Aznavour
http://www.armradio.am/en/2015/03/24/our-dead-have-names-in-homage-to-armeni
an-genocide-victims/