Video by Sarkis Kassargian Shows Extent of Damage to Armenian Genocide Memorial Church in Deir Ezzor

November 11, 2017 By administrator

Armenian Genocide Memorial Church in Deir Ezzor

Extensive damage to the Armenian Genocide Memorial Church in Deir Ezzor, Syria, since 2014 can be seen in new footage posted on November 8, after Syrian government forces took control of the city, long an Islamic State stronghold.

Several plaques with Armenian characters written on them can be seen cracked or completely destroyed on the inside of the church. Rubble is piled in the entryways and windows.

The church was a memorial to the Armenian Genocide of 1915-1917, in which Armenia claims 1.5 million Armenians were killed at the hands of Turks. However, Turkey does not recognize the genocide term, and said the number was closer to 300,000. The memorial had been a major pilgrimage site, according to the BBC. Tens of thousands of Armenians once lived in Deir Ezzor, and more in other Syrian cities, many whose ancestors fled the killings in the Ottoman Empire across unforgiving desert.

When Islamic State forces took control of the city in 2014, they blew up the Martyrs’ Church, according to Armenian and Syrian news reports. Since then, other culprits have been considered, such as members of the Jabhat-al-Nusra militia in 2014, possibly using Turkish weapons. Credit: Facebook/Sarkis Kassargian via Storyful.

Glendale to host fundraiser for Armenian Genocide memorial Feb 18

February 6, 2016 By administrator

205474 A dinner fundraiser for the Pasadena Armenian Genocide Memorial will be held on February 18 at Phoenicia restaurant in Glendale, the Los Angeles Times reports.

The special guest at the event will be Sinan Sinanian, construction team leader for the memorial.

An Armenian Genocide memorial was dedicated at Sunset Park in Las Vegas on November 14, 2015. The monument is a replica of the one that was dedicated in 1965 in Yerevan, Armenia. It’s made out of precast concrete and has 12 pillars, which represent the 12 provinces where Armenians were massacred, as well as a bench and dedication plaque on an adjacent boulder.

Another memorial commemorating the Armenian Genocide was unveiled at Fresno State in April, 2015 to commemorate the centennial of the massacres perpetrated at the hands of the Ottoman Empire.

Blasting of Armenian genocide Memorial Deir Zor: the highest stage of genocide

October 1, 2014 By administrator

With the blast of the Armenian Memorial Der Zor September 18, single memorial site erected on the land where it was carried out the genocide of the Armenians, the jihadist forces operating in Syria have taken the final step of the criminal folly. After the company to exterminate the Armenian people, after the attempts to destroy his memory, the killers have been taking the last relics of the victims that had been collected in this ossuary. After annihilating the living in 1915, erased their trail and denied history for almost 100 years, criminal logic feeds their bodies today, bringing it from the genocide denial, denial of profanation, desecration to necrophagia .

The attack by the jihadists against the Armenian village of Kessab in Syria on March 21 had highlighted the support that came to them with the Turkish authorities. It seems clear now, given the racist hysteria consubstantial with Turkish leaders that if the crime committed Der Zor-Es-hand is jihadist, the brain finds him in Ankara.

We must do away with this dizzying spiral and the International Criminal hypocrisy that accompanies it. One can not fight against the jihadists while ignoring the complicity they receive.

We must put an end to this barbarity a cause rooted in the genocide of 1915 The law of silence and impunity that ensued had indeed resulted internationally legitimize the rule of terror in the region. Realpolitik which are paying until today many people persecuted for who they are, especially Eastern Christians (Assyrian-Chaldeans, Syriacs, Armenians), Kurds and Yezidis.

The CFC is calling for a mass demonstration on October 7 at 19h Street corner of University St. Constantine (Metro National Assembly or Invalid) to express his indignation. It calls for an awakening of consciousness and greater vigilance with regard to the duplicity of the Turkish authorities with a known background hostility against Christians, Kurds, minorities in general and connivance with jihadists.

He calls the elected French people, the government and all forces fighting against the jihadi barbarism and the powers that support it, to join the gathering.

National Bureau of CCAF

Georgia, Genocide Memorial Unveiled in Tbilisi

April 23, 2014 By administrator

TBILISI, Georgia (DFWatch)—A memorial to the Armenian genocide was unveiled in Tbilisi on Monday. The memorial is made of stone and stands in the yard of one of the Armenian churches in the capital.

Levon Isakhanian, a representative of the Armenian community in Georgia, explained to Georgian news agency DF Watch that a khachkar is a stone with a cross and ornaments engraved in it. This is a memorial statue and it is an Armenian tradition to place such stones on graves.

There are only a few khachkars left in Georgia, dating from different time periods.

This is the second Armenian stone memorial in Georgia. The first one was placed in front of another Armenian church in Tbilisi a few years ago in order to pay tribute to people who died in Tbilisi on April 9, 1989, during a pro-independence rally which was dispersed by Soviet soldiers.

The new khachkar is dedicated to the memory of approximately 1.5 million people who were massacred by the Ottoman government during the Armenian Genocide at the turn of the 20th century.

Historians and many politicians consider the mass killings, torture, deportations, and ultimately displacement of the Armenian population from its native homeland in 1915-1918 as genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire.

Every year on April 24, the Armenian community in Georgia holds rallies outside the Turkish embassy in Tbilisi. They pay tribute to those who were killed and demand that the Georgian government recognize the genocide.

The Turkish government categorically denies that the Ottoman Empire carried out a campaign of ethnic cleansing against Armenians. Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan said in an interview with the German magazine Der Spiegel that there cannot be any conversation about any kind of genocide. He said he thinks that assessing these events is a subject for historians and lawyers, not politicians. Erdoğan said Turkey is ready to publish historical material and calls on Armenia to take the same step. He said he thinks it is a mistake when journalists and politicians use the word “genocide.”

The unveiling of the new memorial was held in connection with the April 24 commemoration and was attended by representatives of different churches.

“It is a very important day for the history of the Armenian community in Georgia. This is a day when a khachkar, dedicated to the memory of the victims of the Armenian Genocide, was erected for the first time in Tbilisi,” Vazgen Mirzakhaniani, head of the Armenian Diocese in Georgia, said at the unveiling ceremony.

“We appreciate the attitude of Georgians to this day and we want this khachkar to also become a symbol for Armenian-Georgian relations, which go back centuries.”