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RAG MAMOUL an ADL PUBLICATION Official Organ of the Armenian Democratic Liberal Party Tuesday, 24 December 2013 Volume # 8, Issue # 242 Page 1 RAG MAMOUL receives material from around the world and in many languages. Our Liberal principles advocate ‘Freedom of speech’ as a mainstay of our beliefs; consequently the subjects and ideas presented will not necessarily reflect our point of view. All published material is reviewed, however, we rely on the kind understanding of our audience when grammatical and spelling mistakes are missed. And in some rare cases, correction of submitted material is purposely not addressed, if it changes the implied context of the author. “Just over 30 years ago, I dug the bones and skulls of Armenian genocide victims out of a hillside above the Khabur River in Syria. They were young people – the teeth were not decayed – and they were just a few of the million- and-a-half Armenian Christians slaughtered in the first Holocaust of the 20th century, the deliberate, planned mass destruction of a people by the Ottoman Turks in 1915. It was difficult to find these bones because the Khabur River – north of the Syrian city of Deir ez-Zour – had changed. So many were the bodies heaped in its flow that the waters moved to the east. The very river had altered its course. But Armenian friends who were with me took the remains and placed them in the crypt of the great Armenian church at Deir ez-Zour, which is dedicated to the memory of those Armenians who were killed – and shame upon the “modern” Turkish state which still denies this Holocaust – in that industrial mass murder. Nearly a century after the Armenian genocide, these people are still being slaughtered in Syria By: ROBERT FISK And now, almost unmentioned in the media, these ghastly killing fields have become the killing fields of a new war. Upon the bones of the dead Armenians, the Syrian conflict is being fought. And the descendants of the Armenian Christian survivors who found sanctuary in the old Syrian lands have been forced to flee again – to Lebanon, to Europe, to America. The very church in which the bones of the murdered Armenians found their supposedly final resting place has been damaged in the new war, although no one knows the culprits. Yesterday, I called Bishop Armash Nalbandian of Damascus, who told me that while the church at Deir ez- Zour was indeed damaged, the shrine remained untouched. The church itself, he said, was less important than the memory of the Armenian genocide – and it is this memory which might be destroyed. He is right. But the church – not a very beautiful building, I have to say – is nonetheless a witness, a memorial to the Holocaust of Armenians every bit as sacred as the Yad Vashem memorial to the victims of the Jewish Holocaust in Israel. And although the Israeli state, with a shame equal to the Turks, claims that the Armenian genocide was not a genocide, Israelis themselves use the word Shoah – Holocaust – for the Armenian killings.
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Transcript of Tuesday 24 12 13, volume # 8, issue 242
RAG MAMOUL an ADL PUBLICATION
Official Organ of the Armenian Democratic Liberal Party
Tuesday, 24 December 2013 Volume # 8, Issue # 242 Page 1
RAG MAMOUL receives material from around the world and in many languages. Our Liberal principles advocate ‘Freedom of
speech’ as a mainstay of our beliefs; consequently the subjects and ideas presented will not necessarily reflect our point of view.
All published material is reviewed, however, we rely on the kind understanding of our audience when grammatical and spelling
mistakes are missed. And in some rare cases, correction of submitted material is purposely not addressed, if it changes the implied
context of the author.
“Just over 30 years ago, I dug the bones and skulls of Armenian genocide
victims out of a hillside above the Khabur River in Syria. They were young
people – the teeth were not decayed – and they were just a few of the million-
and-a-half Armenian Christians slaughtered in the first Holocaust of the 20th
century, the deliberate, planned mass destruction of a people by the Ottoman
Turks in 1915.
It was difficult to find these bones because the Khabur River – north of the
Syrian city of Deir ez-Zour – had changed. So many were the bodies heaped in
its flow that the waters moved to the east. The very river had altered its course.
But Armenian friends who were with me took the remains and placed them in
the crypt of the great Armenian church at Deir ez-Zour, which is dedicated to
the memory of those Armenians who were killed – and shame upon the
“modern” Turkish state which still denies this Holocaust – in that industrial mass
murder.
gin to compete with the exquisite dishes Armenians craft in their kitchens and the abundant attention they give to the slightest details. The table often moans under plentiful courses served together, and it is considered an insult to decline tasting everything. As a tourist, you will have limited chances to savor dinners at home, but if you happen to be invited to one, you should undoubtedly and by all means go!
Nearly a century after the Armenian genocide,
these people are still being slaughtered in Syria By: ROBERT FISK
And now, almost unmentioned in the media, these ghastly killing fields have become the killing fields of a
new war. Upon the bones of the dead Armenians, the Syrian conflict is being fought. And the descendants of
the Armenian Christian survivors who found sanctuary in the old Syrian lands have been forced to flee again
– to Lebanon, to Europe, to America. The very church in which the bones of the murdered Armenians found
their supposedly final resting place has been damaged in the new war, although no one knows the culprits.
Yesterday, I called Bishop Armash Nalbandian of Damascus, who told me that while the church at Deir ez-
Zour was indeed damaged, the shrine remained untouched. The church itself, he said, was less important
than the memory of the Armenian genocide – and it is this memory which might be destroyed. He is right.
But the church – not a very beautiful building, I have to say – is nonetheless a witness, a memorial to the
Holocaust of Armenians every bit as sacred as the Yad Vashem memorial to the victims of the Jewish
Holocaust in Israel. And although the Israeli state, with a shame equal to the Turks, claims that the Armenian
genocide was not a genocide, Israelis themselves use the word Shoah – Holocaust – for the Armenian
killings.
Tuesday, 24 December 2013 Volume # 8, Issue # 242 Page 2
In Aleppo, an Armenian church has been vandalised by the Free Syrian Army, the “good” rebels
fighting Bashar al-Assad’s regime, funded and armed by the Americans as well as the Gulf Sunni
Arabs. But in Raqqa, the only regional capital to be totally captured by the opposition in Syria, Salafist
fighters trashed the Armenian Catholic Church of the Martyrs and set fire to its furnishings. And – God
spare us the thought – many hundreds of Turkish fighters, descendants of the same Turks who tried to
destroy the Armenian race in 1915, have now joined the al-Qa’ida-affiliated fighters who attacked the
Armenian church. The cross on top of the clock tower was destroyed, to be replaced by the flag of the
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
Nor is that all. On 11 November, when the world honoured the dead of the Great War, which did not
give the Armenians the state they deserved, a mortar shell fell outside the Holy Translators Armenian
National School in Damascus and two other shells fell on school buses. Hovhannes Atokanian and
Vanessa Bedros, both Armenian schoolchildren, died. A day later, a bus load of Armenians travelling
from Beirut to Aleppo were robbed at gunpoint. Two days later, Kevork Bogasian was killed by a
mortar shell in Aleppo. The Armenian death toll in Syria is a mere 65; but I suppose we might make
that 1,500,065. More than a hundred Armenians have been kidnapped. The Armenians, of course, like
many other Christians in Syria, do not support the revolution against the Assad regime – although they
could hardly be called Assad supporters.
Two years from now, they will commemorate the 100th anniversary of their Holocaust. I have met
many survivors, all now dead. But the Turkish state, supporting the present revolution in Syria, will be
memorialising its victory at Gallipoli that same year, a heroic battle in which Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
saved his country from Allied occupation. Armenians also fought in that battle – in the uniform of the
Turkish army, of course – but I will wager as many dollars as you want that they will not be
remembered in 2015 by the Turkish state which was so soon to destroy their families.
Beirut, Lebanon
The Armenian St. Kevork Church (Saint George) is
seen in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, on
October 30, 2012, after it was burnt during fighting
between rebel fighters and Syrian government.
The ISIS, Al Qaeda linked group in Syria,
took over an Armenian church and transformed it into
their bureau in Raqqa.
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