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Harut Sassounian

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.

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  1. He is right. Turkey will never be an enlightened country until its honestly confronts its past crimes and pays just reparations. It will continue to suffer injustice, massive human rights abuses, internal conflict and be despised by many neighboring countries. I would even dare say a similar affliction is affecting those states, like the US, UK, and Israel, who are complicit in this crime by supporting Turkey’s denial. These states are also rotting in many ways from the inside. Recognizing the Armenian genocide would be a big first step in bringing these countries into a new enlightened era – guaranteed.

  2. I think turkey will destroy itself on the path that she is going she will not correct the wrongdoing the wrong will get her I think it’s for the best

  3. Kudos to Prof. Aktar! AG denialists can deny all they want, but they can never escape the extremely well documented, empirical fact of the AG. Turkey will never be a genuine democracy until it confronts its evil past under its predecessor, the Ottoman Empire, and until it pays reparations to the descendants of the AG. So much for the charade of “Turkish pride”.

  4. Cengiz Aktar is echoing the sentiments of many people over the years, including the Armenians. My poem from the 1970s talks about this, as well.

    ANATHEMA
    by CK Garabed

    Hey Turk!
    Did you think you disposed of me?
    That your conscience was clear because you erased your memory?
    That you could wash your mind of its historic bloody stains?
    Did you think you could eradicate my name as you did the inscriptions on the old stone churches in your midst?
    Did you think you could teach your children lies and then have them repeat your words and make them sound like truths because they came out of the mouths of babes?
    Did you think Time would heal your self-inflicted wounds?
    That your sins would not be visited upon your sons?
    Did you really think that by ignoring me you could stop me from gnawing away at your vitals?
    Did you really believe that you could sleep the sleep of the just?
    Ha!
    I creep into your dreams at night. I make you shudder in the dark. I inflame your guilt by magnitudes. I send a shiver down your spine. I show you pictures of your deeds: BUTCHERY AND MORTIFICATION.
    You called me “Kardash;” therefore I trusted you.
    We lived together, side by side.
    I shared my ancient and historic homeland with you.
    I tilled the soil for both of us.
    I fashioned handicrafts for our mutual use.
    I infused your language and song with grace and finesse.
    I told myself that Christian love would bridge the gap between our worlds.
    I upheld the laws of the land.
    I fought in your army as a trustworthy subject.
    Too late did I discover your treachery.

    History required that I play Abel to your Cain.
    But Abel’s story can be read and acknowledged.
    Not so with me.
    I must live with a truth that goes untrusted, unbelieved.
    Only I can be found telling the story and therefore am vilified for being self-serving.

    “They say” I hate you.
    But my role is to point the accusing finger at your hatred of me.
    And your hatred is like a sickness that grows with self-awareness.
    As you strive to be equal with the civilized world, you repress more and more that which you cannot face.
    And the sickness continues to grow.
    Your aberrations will not cease.
    They will haunt you to spiritual death.
    And my curse will be upon you and your children. Never to be released.
    Damnation of the spirit is your rightful inheritance.
    And then will my revenge be complete.

    THE ARMENIAN

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