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Harut Sassounian
California Courier Editor
Harut Sassounian is the publisher of The California Courier, a weekly newspaper based in Glendale, Calif. He is the president of the Armenia Artsakh Fund, a non-profit organization that has donated to Armenia and Artsakh one billion dollars of humanitarian aid, mostly medicines, since 1989 (including its predecessor, the United Armenian Fund). He has been decorated by the presidents of Armenia and Artsakh and the heads of the Armenian Apostolic and Catholic churches. He is also the recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor.
It is very encouraging to see momentum building in the defintion of our cause beyond recognition of the genocide. In addition to public recognition, litigation allow us to express the reality of the genocide in a different venue.. the legal system. Aside from the lements of justice, perhaps the legal offensive will provide another motivation to the Turks to abandon their denial and makes ammends. Although this is frightening scenario for Turkey, the best deal for them was yesterday.
Fortunately I have lived long enouigh to see the Armenian ingenuity finally taking fruition on the issue of the Armenian Genocide. Had Armenia been an area where it would profit the U.S. to be a real help to to the Armenian Nation and its diaspora, this issue would have been resolved long ago. Now legal action can become a reality because it is more likely that favorable decisions will be rendered legally than through politics because as Khirimian Hairig said ” we only came with a paper ladle” . Through the courts now maybe we can attend with an iron ladle.
AMEN TO OUR LORD JESUS.. this was a great great news…. I am sooo thrilled to see an advancement in our legal system to persue such a cause..to reclaim what is legally ours….. maybe Turkey can finally see with their ugly eyes that Armenians will not stop and they can’t hide forever.. someone will crack and that will be Turkey … Lies don’t live forever…
I pray for all those lawyers and people who are working on these lawsuits and God’s speed…
Gayane
Very interesting and impressive article my heartfelt congratulations.
Go for it until the end.
“Justice never dies, get sick and than recovers”. Baruyr Sevag.
With love,
Bedros Zerdelian
Love those Adanatzis!! Shanoravor Soorp Dzunoont !!!!
As an American taxpayer, I resent that efforts of the USA governments have seen fit to advance and embelish the turkeys… paying ‘rents’ for Incirlik, using Incirlik ONLY if a turkey allows (USA built this airport to secure USA needs) and now learn that the lands of the airport were owned by Armenians slaughtered by a turkey!! What has a turkey offered to the USA in return for all the ‘advances and improvements’ which the USA State Department has ‘granted’ to a perpetrator of all the Genocides (19th, 20th, 21st centuries) against the Greeks, Cyprus, Pontians, Syrians, Assyrians, too planned and pursued elimination of the Christian Armenian nation (adopted Christianity in 301AD and then followed by Rome in 307AD). The turkeys have benefitted above and beyond any and all that the turkeys have ‘returned’ in kind. Thus a turkey bullies, tells USA to jump, USA says ‘how high?’ Turkey has benefitted as though a turkey is the 51st state of the USA… via my taxes… committers of Genocides ongoing and unending… Who in Washingotn DC benefits from the turkeys actions (including the destruction of the Woodrow Wilson memorial IN OUR CAPITAL CITY OF WASHINGTON DC… and neither USA State Department nor the White House can speak/acknowledge this desecration of our memorium of a USA president.. Are the USA leaerships “gagged” and beholden to a turkey. Why? Manooshag