My Turn
Welsh Shepherd Does More for Armenian Cause than Most Armenians
Incredible, but true! Eilian Williams, a shepherd in Wales, has done more in support of the Armenian Cause than most Armenians have, despite the fact that he is not related to Armenians by heritage or marriage. For all his good work, he has received no recognition and no appreciation. Most Armenians, except for a small circle in London, are neither aware of his existence nor his selfless efforts.
His first involvement with Armenians began in 1998 when an Armenian acquaintance asked him to arr
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wow!
I fully agree that Eilian Williams deserves official worldwide Armenian recognition for his incredible contributions and sacrifices made for Armenian causes.
A true humanitarian.
Interesting man no doubt. A fedayi (freedom fighter) in his own right. Measures of restitution is more of what I’d like to hear about. I fully concur with submitting a similar resolution to Congress and would put funds towards any such initiative lead by the ANCA. If were serious about our rights, and want the state department to take us a little more seriously, we should be playing hard ball like Williams and demanding justice.
We should be ashamed of our indeference toward that man who deserves much more respect that those armenian organizations who are so-called fighting for our historical rights by being paid by the comunity and that noble Welsh shepherd alone fighting with his limited means for our historical rights.So we all are sheeps(Armenians)who should follow that noble Welsh soldier.Once again all those Armenian political organizations of OPERETTE prouved their AMATEURISH attitude toward Armenian historical rigts.Once a famous political personality declared “Armenian’s historical rights is a noble case,but at the hands of incapables lawyers(traditional political partys”. Baron Sasunian hokvov ev srdov dzez hed em,aroghdcutyun ev yergar gyankh ge maghtem dzezi Brukselen
Rest in peace Dad.