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Rupen Janbazian
Rupen Janbazian is the editor of Torontohye Monthly. He is the former editor of The Armenian Weekly and the former director of public relations of the Tufenkian Foundation. Born and raised in Toronto, he is currently based in Yerevan.
Latest posts by Rupen Janbazian (see all)
- Battle Everlasting - October 6, 2021
- Aram Manoukian’s bust unveiled in Yerevan’s ARF Aram Manoukian Youth Center - October 1, 2021
- Thursdays with (Unger) Michael - August 6, 2020
Bravo!
And The monstrous denial by Turkey of the O Turkey Genocide of the Armenians, the dispossession of land, treasures and all, only helps Armenians and friends continue to memorialize and demand. Does Turkey deserve to be friends of civilized nations, when together with lobbyists they also represent ISIS and new massacres and occupations? Danger to the world community.
Commemoration is much more than the “constant demonization of enemies.” In my opinion, it has to do with sanctifying the nude bodies of dying children on a street while passers by ignore their plight and move along. It has to do with a skeletal woman lying on her side with her skirt hiked up to her thighs and stockings pulled down refusing sustenance from missionaries: preferring to die. It has to do with the little ten year old girl in CHUNGUSH who stood silently in line while 10,000 people from her village in 1915 were murdered and thrown into a deep opening in the earth. Subsequently she was taken by a perpetrator of the killings and was forced to marry him at the age of 15 years. It has to do with the countless Armenians like her taken during the Genocide, made to forget their heritage, language and culture and except for a few cases never speaking of being an Armenian again for fear of governmental discrimination against their children and grand children. WILL I CONTINUE TO COMMEMORATE THE GENOCIDE? UNTIL MY DYING BREATH.
Ellen Sarkisian Chesnut
Clarification is necessary. Dear Readers, When i began my comments, I started with a quotation that was not from Rupen’s Editorial but from an editor’s remarks from a highly regarded Armenian periodical. Here is the quotation: Commemoration is much more than the “constant demonization of enemies.” As you can tell from my comments, I did not demonize anybody but instead honored our victims. Hope you will include this in the comments section.
Thank you, Ellen Sarkisian Chesnut
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Annette