Atom Egoyan: “I’m tired of your state of fury denial, I’m tired of life can not continue. However, seeing the opposite alternative, this fatigue have no choice but to accept.”
Atom Egoyan: Canadian director. He was born in Cairo in 1960. Family after emigrating to Canada in 1962, the field of education at the University of Toronto Egoyan, began writing plays at a young age. In 1984 a great success bringing her first film, ‘Next of Kin’ stepped into the cinema and as far attracted 13 gained worldwide fame with the film. In 2002 by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television named the year’s best feature film Ararat in Turkey and in the world of genocide agenda once again helped. The actor in many of his films in arsines Khanjar wife and son live in Toronto with Arshile.
Atom Egoyan
To the people of Turkey,
I’m tired of my anger.
Each time, I know all of what you get along, you will feel the same thing with me, “Enough is enough, let’s move on with our lives say,” I’ve thought.
But not able to continue.
I, like many Armenians made a promise, and this supposedly horrified by the idea of turning me.
Having said that we will take lessons from the past, will be sworn in again in no time after the genocide in Cambodia, the former Yugoslavia, in Rwanda and in many other places when I saw the destruction of people, I kept my word.
In your country, members of civil society bravely stood up to tell the truth that they saw. Hrant Dink, each is obliged to maintain a heritage of Armenians killed for refusing to remember that I saw.
Denial and apathy still continue to be processed through the horror of the crimes being granted in a way never find peace.
We consecrate ourselves to remember, and yet the crime was committed on the territory, as an open wound continues to bleed.
I’m tired of your state from the denial of fury, I’m tired of life can not continue. But seeing the opposite alternative, have no choice but to accept this fatigue.
Please state a hundred years, the burden of this crime to deny Loading your shoulders. ‘Truth will reveal’ shall never be a commission, open archives to see does not concern us. Truth is what we know from numerous witnesses; We saw in the war archives of the closest collaborators, all over the world, Genocide and Holocaust researchers working on’ve listened to the views of the wise.
Today you only to do your part, your questioning your government’s motives and I want you to take this extraordinary difficulty of the task.
I ask you to do your work
To the people of Turkey
I’m exhausted by my anger.
I have always thought that if you understood all the things I know, you’d feel the same way. You would think that it’s enough, that it’s time to move on.
Yet it’s impossible to move on.
I have made a promise – like so many other Armenians – and it would haunt me to break this vow.
I’ve kept this vow as I’ve seen Populations exterminated in Cambodia, in the former Yugoslavia, in Rwanda … in too many places after we said we would learn, where we Swora we would never see Genocide happen again.
I’ve also seen members of civil society to stand up bravely to speak your truth. I have seen a legacy of Hrant Dink, murdered remembering that for every Armenian has a duty to guard.
Without some acknowledgment of the monstrous nature of the crime perpetrated through denial and apathy Continues to be that we shall not rest.
We have committed ourselves to remember, and yet the crime remains a raw wound on the very land upon it was committed.
I’m exhausted by your government’s vehement denial, exhausted by my inability to move on. Yet there is little choice but to accept this exhaustion in the face of its alternative.
Your government has imposed the denial of this crime upon your shoulders for a century. There will never be a commission to ‘reveal the truth’ and we are not interested in seeing your archives open. We have too many witnesses from the truth, seen the wartime archives of your closest collaborators and heard the wise counsel of Genocide and Holocaust scholars from around the world.
Today, I simply ask you to do your work, to question your government’s motivations, and to rise to this extraordinary challenge.
Atom Egoyan