Youth
Commonality in Struggle
By Vaché Thomassian
Below is the text of a speech given by Vaché Thomassian, a member of the Hollywood “Musa Dagh” AYF Chapter and of the United Human Rights Council (UHRC). It was given at the UHRC’s second annual “Opposite of Silence” event in Glendale, Calif. The event aimed to bring together Armenians and Kurds, and to pay tribute to those activists in Turkey who have been targeted, harassed, or murdered for their efforts to advance human rights, Armenian Genocide recognition, freedom of speech, equality, and democracy. The keynote speaker of the event was Kani Xulam, the executive director of the American Kurdish Information Network.
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Hye, sadly I fear for Berivan, the 15 year old Kurdish girl, sentenced by Turkish judges to years in the vile jails of Turkey (shades of MIDNIGHT EXPRESS) . Obscenely judged and sentenced by the same mentality that still permeats the Turks – a child, in a Turkish jail, because she is a Kurd. Shame upon the Turkish nation for still maintaining their Ottoman mentality, centuries after they’d come down from the Asian mountains – still in the mountains – mentally. Shame on supposedly learned men,
judges, brave men who have charged and jailed Berivan.
Manooshag