“The Right to Live” (No. 653, December 2014-January 2015), the magazine of the LICRA devotes 13 pages to the “100 years of the Armenian Genocide” with a cover photo of protesters marching to the memory of Hrant Dink Armenian journalist murdered by a Turkish nationalist in Istanbul in January 2007. In its editorial, the editor, Antoine Spire recalls “a fighting centennial” because he wrote “the Turks they just murdered in 1915 nearly two million Armenians but able to organize the denial of the genocide so that a hundred years later, the minions Erdogan still deny and continue to put pressure on individuals, institutions and governments, to prevent this recognition. “

“The Living Right” devotes several articles to the Armenian Genocide. Under the title “The Armenian genocide a century,” the magazine points out on a page the important dates of the event since 1915 until 2015. Then an article by Alain Barbanel and titled “Despite the evidence, Erdogan still denies” the newspaper is a reminder of the historical books-including the last book of Yves Ternon and Raymond H. Kevorkian “Memorial of the Armenian Genocide.” “The Right to Live” also features an interview historian Yves Ternon specialist of the Armenian genocide, under the title “archetype of genocide.” He also questions the writer and translator Janine Altounian in an article titled “Genocide in the Journal of a father and in memory of his daughter.” A page is devoted to “coming out brave Hasan Cemal” the grand-son of one of the three members of the Young Turk triumvirate responsible for the Armenian genocide, which recently lost to the genocide memorial in Yerevan.

Under the title “Happy as an Armenian in France,” “The Right to Live” interviewed in Valence (Drôme) “several leaders of the Armenian community witnessed the cultural and community life.” Of these, Henri Siranyan (Vice-President of the National Federation of French veterans of Armenian origin, Krikor Amirzayan (journalist, cartoonist and community activist), Alain Jinbachian (President of the House of Armenian Culture of Valencia) and father Andranik Maldjian (Armenian Apostolic Church of Valencia). An article is also dedicated to the Armenian memorial Der Zor (Syria) recently bombed by Islamists.

In an article titled “When the movie is a work of memory”, a large part is devoted to Jacques Kebadian “a man who devoted part of his life to tell the story of this tragedy and its global impact.” In “The Other films on the Armenian Genocide, “the magazine recalled the major films on the Armenian genocide with” Ravished Armenia “(1919) Oscar Apfel,” Nahapet “(1977) Henrik Malyan,” The 40 Days of Musa Dagh ” (1982) Sarky Mouradian, “Mayrig” (1991) by Henri Verneuil, “Ararat” (2002) Atom Egoyan’s “The Cut” (2015) by Fatih Akin and “Genex” (2015) Valerie McCaffrey and Gary Titizian. Finally the folder “Armenian genocide Special” ends with a free forum Séta Papazian which calls for solidarity for the victims of genocide and concludes “taking up the cause against denial of the Armenian genocide, Lycra is honored and carries the values universal human rights. “

Contact: The Life of Law (the magazine of Lycra), 42, rue du Louvre, 75001 Paris. Tel 01 45 08 08 08, email: ddv@licra.org. Website: www.licra.org.

Krikor Amirzayan