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Tom Vartabedian
Tom Vartabedian is a retired journalist with the Haverhill Gazette, where he spent 40 years as an award-winning writer and photographer. He has volunteered his services for the past 46 years as
a columnist and correspondent with the Armenian Weekly, where his pet project was the publication of a special issue of the AYF Olympics each September.
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Thanks Vartabed
This should been done long time ago
Where is Heghine’s photo…
My beloved
No longer wants to hear about word genocide
Our dawn starts with genocide…
And continues till dusk shines to rest…
Nighting can’t stay deprived of that defined gene…
Dream after dreams…
We don’t have loughs
We don’t have life
Every Armenian song I hear …
I can feel there …
There was a genocide..
I can see pains in every eye in every dear…
Genocide word is a part of my bread…
When I am hungry …
I say oh, My god How my Race starved on Der-Zor land…
Every thing I touch my pen cries and signs there
“It was genocide”
My mother’s family watched in and stepped…
My mother every morning said
what Heghine now says after decades…
” I’m lucky to be alive”……………!
Alive …I am lucky as well to be born in life
from a Mother who seen genocide…
I’m lucky that I can pen
About our unrecognized tragedies…
Shame on many souless lawyers…politician…populace…..
Who define them selves…as Christians”
Written Instantly
Sylva
“She remembers Turks invading her city”
Seriously, what kind of world are you living in?
Hey Turk, do you know there are over 40,000 pages in our own USA archives on the systematic Armenian race extermination all written in real time as it was happening? Are you in utter denial or just can’t read? Which is it?
We’re living in a world where there are still eye witnesses! She’s probably one of the last but she’s not the only one whose story is recorded. Everybody knows the truth about what happened to the Armenians.. we know it, the world knows it and YOU know it! It’s just a matter of time till Turkey loses its political advantage and justice is served.
Կարդացեք մամիկին ….եւ փորձեցեք հասկնալ ուր կը գտնւի հարցին պատասխանը…
Ելերենք -դեռեւս-կը փորցենք թուրքին խոսք հասկցնել: Թուրքը միմիայն Ույժէ կը հասկնայ եկած պատկամ/խօսք: Ըսել է ինչպէս ինձի պատգամեց տարեց ընկերս,Փարիզ-այն նոյն մարդը զոր Զորավար Բաղրամեանին կը ընդունիր(ինք Նախկին Հայ Ռազմիկներու Նախագահն էր Ֆրանսայ…պատվական Գեւորք Պաքրճեան, ըսեց(թուրքին ղաֆային էթէ չի զարնես,խոսք չի հասկնայ):
Անշուշտ ՄԵՆՔ ՉԷ որ այդ կրնանք ընել……..ան շատ հզորւեցաւ Դաշնակիրներէ,բայց ինչպէս ՄԱՄԻԿ կըսէ….եւ այդ կը ակնկալէ…..ԿԱՅ ՈՒՐԻՇԸ զոր այդ պիտի ըներ ԵՒ ԴԷՌ ԿՐՆԱՅ Ը Ն Ե Լ …..Ապրիլ 24 մօտ է:
Շատ նեղութեամբ Հայ տառերով կը գրեմ.այս 81 տարիքիս նոր սորվեգայ….
Յ Ա Ռ Ա Ջ ԵՐԻՏԱՍԱՐԴՆԵՐՍ…………
Dear Heghine,
Our Lord Jesus Christ blessed you with your Patriarchal Family.
I am asking the LORD to continue His Blessings to you and to your Dear Patriarchal Family.
The Turks they are denying the Armenian Genocide because they are ashamed that their ancestors did such atrocities.
With love and respect
Bedros Zerdelian
“JUSTICE NEVER DIES
GET SICK BUT THAN RECOVERS” Baruyr Sevag
Dear Mr. Bedros,
Can you answer why some lived …
Why some killed
Why Jesus did not save all…
All were innocents …
Working hard
Building minarets for Ottoman empire …
For them to call their criminal god and
Who allowed them to slay Us
Thus, Where was our Jesus
and where was our innocent God…!
Thanks
SP
I remember Heghine and Garabed when I was growing up in Worcester. I was at their home often and enjoyed their loving hospitality. Their daughter Alice was a very good friend of mine.
Thank you so very much for printing this wonderful interview you had with my Mother.Beautifully done.
Alice
President Obama,
April 24, 2012 is your last chance to keep your promises to Armenians of the world.
Properly recognize The Armenian Genocide or forget about the second term.
The best part of this story is that these genocidal racist criminals decided to eradicate the Armenians from the face of this earth, yet here we are today almost 100 years later and this women not only is alive but remembers well the facts to tell about it and has children that continue their fight for justice..
Dear Sylva,
Those who dyed for Jesus is never in vain. They are in heaven.
We do our part as Christians and GOD is going to do His part.
We won ARTSAKH war because we came to our knees and ask the Almighty to guide us and we put the sign of the CROSS on our bodies and the tanks.
2 Chronicles Chapter 7: 14
If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
Do your best and God will bless the rest.
My mom Vartouhi Garabedian Zerdelian was raised in orphanage.
I am asking the LORD to Bless you and your Dear family.
Jesus said: “Ask for it and you will receive”.
With love,
Bedros Zerdelian
beezee57@hotmail.com
OK no offense to your faith or anything, but we won the Artsakh war because we had soldiers brave and patriotic enough to fight and die for our country. It had absolutely nothing to do with “putting the cross on the tanks”.
If God was listening, he would’ve heard the prayers of all those who were being raped, beaten and starved to death during the genocide.
Dear Tom, Yet another good article by yourself and I thank you.
It was a heartwrenching, but all truthful poem you wrote about our sad faith dear Sylva and how we were betrayed, butchered and then murdered as a race by the Turkish gov’t of 1915.
WHY? Because we didn’t have a king to rule over and protect us. Why? Because we were Christians by faith and not Muslims.
WHY? Because the Turkish goverment wanted our 5,000 year old lands that belonged to us from long long ago.
WHY? Because we were builders, intelligent merchants, farmers, engineers, educators, doctors, lawyers, storekeepers, architects who built them minarehs as well as our hundreds of Churches and Monasteries.
WHY? Because they wanted our houses, our buildings, our crops, our stores, our bank accounts and our soil under our feet, but without the Armenians.
THAT’S WHY.
For 97 long years the Turkish government denies such a Genocide ever happened. They pay zillions of dollars around the world to almost every country in the world so that their goverments do their DIRTY JOB of denial. To deny that a Genocide of such magnitude to the Armenians ever happened. And but who can believe them? The world knows it already. They know how and why it happened. Most governments of the world are just intimidated by the Turkish sword, that is called “yataghan”. It is high time goverments of the world to free yourselves from the bondages of intimidation and fright, and accept the Armenian Genocide, because it did happen and we are here to attest the veracity of such atrocities time and time again. To this date, 22 nations accepted the Armenian Genocide already. It is high time for the United States and England to accept it and stand by us, the murdered innocent nation. In all these years we have been patiently waiting for you. How much more do we have to wait? The time to accept the Armenian Genocide is not tomorrow, but right now!!!!