Comrades in Arms
Sunday, 17 November 2013
Antranig Boghosian was a member of the Justice Commandoes of the Armenian Genocide. Alec Yenikomshian was with the other camp — the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia. In October 1980 in Geneva, a bomb accidentally exploded during assembly, and Alec Yenikomshian lost his left hand, and was left visually impaired. In March
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The Lives They Kept: Insurers and a Debt of History
Tuesday, 30 April 2002
By Kristen Kidd New York Life Insurance Company sold policies to thousands of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire during the 20 years leading up to the Genocide. In 1917 the company paid off a portion of those policies to surviving heirs, but thousands of others were not. Instead they were sealed in a company vault for the
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Where Are They Now? The Last of the Survivors
Monday, 30 April 2001
By Laurence Ritter Today, the youngest living survivor of the Armenian Genocide is about 90 years old. They are grandparents and great-grandparents who survived the genocidal days at the beginning of the 20th century as little children. Over the last three decades, many told their stories for posterity on audio tape or video tape, in different communities
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Century of Genocide
Wednesday, 28 February 2001
By Matthew Karanian The Century that began with Genocide ended with escalating international condemnation for a crime, that was, in modern times, perpetrated for the first time against the Armenians. Yet, the perpetrator had only just begun to acknowledge that there were questions to be asked and answers to be confronted. In October 2000, a few months
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The Long Road to Yerevan: Interview with Ali Ertem, Chairperson of the Association of People Opposed to Genocide
Wednesday, 31 May 2000
By Tessa Hofmann Eighty-five years after the first major genocide of the twentieth century, recognizing and coming to terms with the Armenian Genocide of 1915-16 is still the biggest taboo of Turkish history. This holds not only for “official” Turkey, which in 1999 erected, not far from the Turkish-Armenian border, a monument to the “Turkish victims of the Armenians”
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Vahakn Dadrian: One Scholar’s Pursuit of Historical Justice
Friday, 31 December 1999
By Henry R. Hattenbach In a very real sense, Professor Vahakn Dadrian is a lone warrior in the oft-frustrating struggle to have the Armenian genocide recognized as history. Not that Dadrian is the sole scholar of this genocide that ushered in the 20th century, tirelessly grappling with those denying its historicity. Professor Richard Hovannisian immediately springs to mind. Yet
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Breaking the Wall of Silence: A Turkish voice joins the call for Armenian Genocide recognition. A Dutch journalist documents the effort fueled by the scholarship of an Armenian historian
Wednesday, 31 March 1999
By Salpi Haroutinian Ghazarian Dorothée Forma is a soft-spoken journalist of the European tradition. In the Netherlands, where media channels are clearly labeled as belonging to specific religious, ethnic or political groups, she works with a small broadcasting organization which supports humanist principles: Taking responsibility, having the right to make your own choices without being
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Man of the Year: The Lone Crusader; Peter Balakian; A Poet’s Political Coming of Age
Thursday, 31 December 1998
By Mark Arax It was the spring of 1997 and Peter Balakian, the author of four collections of poetry, was about to launch his first big book. He felt the unease that any author feels knowing that his baby, now in the hands of marketers and reviewers, was no longer his own. That the book,
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