Harut Sassounian

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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Sassounian: Armenian Americans Should not Allow Obama and Clinton to Bury Genocide Bill

It was bad enough that President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had failed to keep their campaign…

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Sassounian: If Turks Had Not Denied the Genocide, CBS Wouldn’t Have Aired This Show

Turks have only themselves to blame for their unhappiness with the airing of a revealing program on the Armenian Genocide…

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Sassounian: Proposal to Create a Framework that Unites Diaspora Armenians

Armenians are great believers in national unity. Actually, they are obsessed with it. Yet, despite all the talk about unifying…

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Sassounian: Ten Reasons Why Turks Won’t Allow Their Leaders to Ratify the Protocols

In earlier columns, I pointed out Turkey’s deceptive designs in negotiating and signing the protocols with Armenia on Oct. 10,…

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Sassounian: ‘Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive’

The title of this article, taken from Walter Scott’s epic poem “the Marmion,” aptly describes the web of deceit weaved…

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Sassounian: Armenia-Diaspora Unity Must be Preserved at All Cost

In recent months, as heated debates raged on the Armenia-Turkey protocols, Diaspora Armenians reacted with frustration and anger at the…

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Sassounian: The Show is Over… The Protocols are Dead!

The show is finally over! The international community is no longer buying the endless Turkish excuses for refusing to ratify…

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Sassounian: Constitutional Court Limits Protocols’ Damage to Armenian National Interests

After months of bickering among Armenians the world over about the Armenia-Turkey protocols, the Constitutional Court of Armenia on Jan.…

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Sassounian: Armenians, Just as Bulgarians, Should Demand Compensation from Turkey

Bojidar Dimitrov, Bulgaria’s Minister in charge of the Agency for Bulgarians Abroad, stirred a hornet’s nest at the start of…

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Sassounian: Prime Minister’s 1919 Letter Describes Armenia as Destitute, Yet Full of Hope

Today, at a time of global economic crisis, conflict, and wars, most people are justifiably discouraged and depressed by the…

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