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Letter from the afterlife to my child Western Armenia, April 24, 1915 My beloved child, One day, the Armenian land slipped away from under my feet, shattered by foolish hatred. As I fell, with a cry, I held you tightly against my body to shelter you from the unspeakable. The heat was intense and I was worried about your health. By God’s will, you pulled through. For in the land of cross-stones and for the crime without a name, you will need to look for a haven of peace in order to write our name. Mayrig who loves you Jean Eckian 2008 www.inhomage.com OUR DEAD HAVE NAMES Jean Eckian invites the Armenians to record the names of their Martyrs on the Memorial http://www.inhomage.com With the support of Charles AZNAVOUR

Yes, very important, Anahid !

This message is extremely important ! CHARLES AZNAVOUR INVITE YOU TO TESTIFY IN URGENCY ON THE WEBSITE http://www.inhomage.com Dear Compatriot, We solemnly commemorated the 91st ceremony of the remembrance in memory of the Genocide of 1915 perpetrated by the "Young Turks" government of Ottoman Empire. May 18, 2006, the French Parliament did not have the advisability of being able to approve the bill penalizing the negation of the Armenian Genocide after the profanation of the Memorial of Lyon city (France). In turn, our sons and daughters should not have to struggle to make the Turkish State recognize the ignominy of the Genocide inflicted on our people. Their future should be normal and happy within a society that has made peace with itself. This is why we are making a solemn call to the whole community so that every one of its members can witness the drama that has affected them personally on 1915. We are asking men and women from all continents to stand vigilant, as the memory of the Martyrs is decried, as unprecedented violence is being inflicted on the sons and daughters of the survivors of the Armenian Genocide, and as the very existence of our identity, symbolized by the vestiges of our culture, is being willfully wiped out. Today, Armenians are the target of the denial of the crime of which their parents were innocent victims. Scorned, bruised, exasperated, but nevertheless Armenian, we have to tell the world, once and for all, that the time for geopolitical procrastination has passed. We are not claiming to be victims, but protesters for simple justice. In the absence of burial sites, www.inhomage.com enables every one of us to write in the names of those who lost their lives on our ancestral soil. Once this has been done, another task will be invoked: to insure the permanent recognition of the Genocide of the Armenian people and the inevitable consequences of recognition. This is the first time that a website of this type has been published. A map of Asia Minor, which can be found on the homepage, which is dated 1920 (Treaty of Sevres), shows the Armenia whose contours were outlined May 1920 by US President Woodrow WILSON. The idea is to allow Diaspora Armenians to locate the birthplace of ancestors who disappeared during the Genocide, and to enter their names in a database. A second interactive operation allows people to view the names that have been entered, region by region, and make contact with a family from the same place but now living on the other side of the world; a promise for the family to eventually be reunited. Just like a petition, the recording of the names of the victims will become a recognized document render to the United Nations, the only institution whose competence in this area is acknowledged by Turkey. Brought to task, the Turkish government has embarked on an unprecedented campaign of denial of strength of which Armenians would again be the victims. The time has come for all Armenians to resist. Therefore, on the occasion of the 91st commemoration of this human cataclysm, we call upon each of to resist falling into silent consent by visiting the website now at www.inhomage.com to see for yourselves and to help show that our dead have names. This is our duty. To honor the memory of our 1,500,000 Martyrs, please pass this information, in urgency, on to other descendants of victims. Thank you very much. Jean ECKIAN http://www.inhomage.com WorldWide Campaign “Our Dead Have Names” Co-organizer of the recording « Aznavour for Armenia » Charles AZNAVOUR Roving Ambassador of Armenia Ambassador of Goodwill at UNESCO Officer of the Order of the Legion of Honor Commander of the Order of Arts & Letters Commander of the National Order of Merit Large Medal of French Academy http://www.c-aznavour.com/SITE/accueil800EN.html Pr. Verjine SVAZLIAN (Armenia) Doctor of Sciences Leading Researcher Museum-Institute of the Armenian Genocide, Institute of Archaeology & Ethnography, National Academy of Sciences. http://www.geocities.com/vsvaz333/7Haytsegh.html Dickran KOUYMJIAN (USA) Haig & Isabel Berberian Professor of Armenian Studies Director, Armenian Studies Program California State University, Fresno http://armenianstudies.csufresno.edu Youri DJORKAEFF (France – USA) International Soccer player,World champion 1998 (currently in the team of the Red Bulls of New York) http://redbull.newyork.mlsnet.com/MLS/rbn/index.jsp Alexis GOVCIYAN (France) President of Coordination Council of Armenian Organisations of France & Europe of the Memory http://www.ccaf.info / - http://www.europedelamemoire.org/ Ivan APRAHAMIAN (USA) Postdoctoral Scholar Stoddart Supramolecular Chemistry Group Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of California, Los Angeles http://stoddart.chem.ucla.edu/ Richard ABDALIAN Senior Vice-President (Intl operations) Universal Music Mobile Berdj ACHDJIAN Galerist Achdjian Gallery http://www.achdjian.com/ Nil AGOPOFF Researcher of Armenian Research Center http://www.crda-france.org/ Claude ANOUCHIAN Apostolic Church website (Creator-Administrator) http://www.eglise-apostolique-armenienne.com/ Armand ARAPIAN Opera singer http://www.arapian.com Jean Garbis ARTIN (Marseilles, France)) Research Association of the Armenian Memory President http://www.webaram.com/ Armen ASATRYAN, MD, MPH - Atlanta, GA (USA) Hayk R. ASATRYAN (Armenia) « Light a Candle » campaign Light a Candle website (Originator-Administrator) http://www.candle.direct.am/ Vahagn AVEDIAN (Sweden) « Let's Light the Night » campaign Armenica (Project Manager) http://www.armenica.org/ Simon AYNEDJIAN (Cyprus) Gibrahayer e-magazine (Chief Editor) http://gibrahayer.cyprusnewsletter.com/ Armand BAHADOURIAN (Lyon-France) Chevalier of the National order of Merit President of the Armenian Apostolic Church of Lyon-France Aram BARCEGHIAN (Argentina) « Armenia Forever » campaign Armenian Communities of Latin America and Spain Coordinator (IAN website) http://www.ian.cc/inicio.php Jean-Pierre BERBERIAN Armenian Euro-Association (Spokesman) Local Councillor of Marseilles city Chevalier on National Merit Order Rev. Fr. Dr. Khatchadour BOGHOSSIAN, Pastor Holy Trinity Armenian Apostolic Church (Worcester, Mass. USA) http://www.armenianprelacy.org/093004b.htm Marie BOGHOSSIAN ** Yeretzgin ** (Worcester, Mass. USA) http://www.imprescriptible.fr/dossiers/boghossian/ Me Haytoug L. CHAMLIAN (Canada) Attorney -at- Law Diana DERGARABETIAN (Argentina) Sardarabad (Editor) Denis DONIKIAN French writer (Armenian Cause) http://denisdonikian.blog.lemonde.fr/denisdonikian/ David C.EKCHIAN (Switzerland) Switzerland-Armenia Association (website) Originator-Administrator : http://www.armenian.ch/ Alain GERARD In charge of Imprescriptible website against genocide denial http://www.imprescriptible.fr/ Sako GESOKSHENIAN (Lebanon) Proud to be Armenian website (Creator-Administrator) www.proudtobearmenian.com/main.htm Alain GUZELBODUR (France) AGBU Paris (Youth Chairman) http://www.ugab.info/ Garo HAKOPIAN (Sweden) Chairman : Union of Armenian Associations in Sweden. Web: http://www.armeniska.se Armin « R-Mean » HARIRI (USA) Singer, http://r-mean.com/open.html « Open Wounds » (video) www.myspace.com/pentagoninfo Serguei HOVSEPIAN Programmer (USA) National Chaldhood Cancer Foundation Armenian news aggregator http://www.armtown.com http://www.hyefrat.com/Genocide/ Hrach KALSAHAKIAN (United Arab Emirats) AZAD hye website (Originator-Administrator) http://www.azad-hye.net/ Jean-Claude KEBADJIAN Armenian Research Center Founder-President http://www.crda-france.org/ Agop KERKIACHARIAN International Academy Ararat of Sciences President http://www.ararat-academy.org/ Alfred MARKARIAN (Australia) Garoon Armenian Monthly Sports Publisher http://www.ararat.org.au/ Seta MARTAYAN (Italy) Armenian Community Association of Roma & Lazio President Roger MERIAN Psychanalyst, Rennes University Misak OHANIAN (United Kingdom) (CEO), Centre for Armenian Information & Advice (CAIA) Hayashen http://www.caia.org.uk/ Armen G. SARKISIAN (Uruguay) Armenian Portal website (Originator – Administrator) http://www.armenia.com.uy/inicio/inicio.htm Vahe SHAHINIAN (USA) Burbank ANC Activist http://www.burbankanc.org Yervant SIMONIAN (Brazil) Armenia Brazil Association website Originator – Administrator http://www.armenia.com.br/ Jean Varoujan SIRAPIAN : Tchobanian Institut Founder President http://www.tchobanian.org/ Ara TORANIAN Editor (France) Nouvelles d Armenie Magazine News paper and website http://www.armenews.com/ Armen VARTANIAN (USA) GenocideEvents website Originator-Designer http://www.genocideevents.com/ Jeannine VARTANIAN Chevalier of the National order of Merit Edouard VARTANIAN Chevalier of the Legion of Honor Tebrotzassere school http://www.tebrotzassere.com/cms/index.php Vahe VARTANIAN (Italy) Friendships Armeno-Italian Association (Zatik) Director http://www.zatik.com/fastnews.asp Hrant S. VARTZBEDIAN (Egypt) Armenians United Worldwide http://groups.yahoo.com/group/armenian Eilian WILLIAMS (Walles, UK) Wales-Armenia Solidarity http://www.armenia-wales.org/ YEVROBATSI website Editorial staff http://www.yevrobatsi.org/st/index.php?r=0 Narek ZOGRABYAN - Misak ZETILYAN « Never Again » campaign http://www.hyefrat.com/Genocide/ Because Union makes Force, you also, add your signature to the list of the international personalities, and send this mail amongst your friends circle and to activate your networks.Be our spokesperson in your area ! Thank you very much.

YOURI DJORKAEFF (International Soccer player, World champion 1998, currently in the team of the Metro Stars of New York), and 49 Actors of the Armenian Diaspora launch a Call to the 9 Million Armenians of planet. INTERNATIONAL CALL TO THE ARMENIAN DIASPORA Worldwide Campaign “Our Dead Have Names” On April 24, 2006, the Armenian community will commemorate the Genocide of 1915 which was perpetrated by the Young Turk government of Ottoman Empire. This will be the 91st commemoration. 90 too many ! Historical revisionism by the State, wich has overstepped its boundaries since 2005 (when the Republic of Turkey began negotiations for entry in the European Union), is drowning us out and thereby prolonging Armenocide. In turn, our sons and daughters should not have to struggle to make the Turkish State recognize the ignominy of the Genocide inflicted on our people. Their future should be normal and happy within a society that has made peace with itself. This is why we are making a solemn call to the whole community so that every one of its members can witness the drama that has affected them personally on 1915. We are asking men and women from all continents to stand vigilant, as the memory of the Martyrs is decried, as unprecedented violence is being inflicted on the sons and daughters of the survivors of the Armenian Genocide, and as the very existence of our identity, symbolized by the vestiges of our culture, is being willfully wiped out. Today, Armenians are the target of the denial of the crime of which their parents were innocent victims. Scorned, bruised, exasperated, but nevertheless Armenian, we have to tell the world, once and for all, that the time for geopolitical procrastination has passed. We are not claiming to be victims, but protesters for simple justice. The first of these is to allow us to pay respect to our graveless parents' remains. We will do this on April 24, as we have done every year since 1916. In the absence of burial sites, www.inhomage.com enables every one of us to write in the names of those who lost their lives on our ancestral soil. Once this has been done, another task will be invoked: to insure the permanent recognition of the Genocide of the Armenian people and the inevitable consequences of recognition. Just like a petition, the recording of the names of the victims will become a recognized document render to the United Nations, the only institution whose competence in this area is acknowledged by Turkey. Brought to task, the Turkish government has embarked on an unprecedented campaign of denial of strength of which Armenians would again be the victims. The time has come for all Armenians to resist. Therefore, on the occasion of the 91st commemoration of this human cataclysm, we call upon each of to resist falling into silent consent by visiting the website now at www.inhomage.com to see for yourselves and to help show that our dead have names. This is our duty. To honor the memory of our 1,500,000 Martyrs, please pass this information on to other descendants of victims. Jean ECKIAN www.inhomage.com WorldWide Campaign “Our Dead Have Names” Co-organizer of the recording « Aznavour for Armenia » Pr. Verjine SVAZLIAN (Armenia) Doctor of Sciences Leading Researcher Museum-Institute of the Armenian Genocide, Institute of Archaeology & Ethnography, National Academy of Sciences. http://www.geocities.com/vsvaz333/7Haytsegh.html Dickran KOUYMJIAN (USA) Haig & Isabel Berberian Professor of Armenian Studies Director, Armenian Studies Program California State University, Fresno http://armenianstudies.csufresno.edu Youri DJORKAEFF (France – USA) International Soccer player,World champion 1998 (currently in the team of the Metro Stars of New York) With my compatriots in my heart. Youri. http://redbull.newyork.mlsnet.com/MLS/rbn/index.jsp Alexis GOVCIYAN (France) President of Coordination Council of Armenian Organisations of France & Europe of the Memory www.ccaf.info / - www.europedelamemoire.org/ Ivan APRAHAMIAN (USA) Postdoctoral Scholar Stoddart Supramolecular Chemistry Group Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of California, Los Angeles http://stoddart.chem.ucla.edu/ Richard ABDALIAN Senior Vice-President (Intl operations) Universal Music Mobile Berdj ACHDJIAN Galerist Achdjian Gallery www.achdjian.com/ Nil AGOPOFF Researcher of Armenian Research Center www.crda-france.org/ Claude ANOUCHIAN Apostolic Church website (Creator-Administrator) www.eglise-apostolique-armenienne.com/ Armand ARAPIAN Opera singer www.arapian.com Jean Garbis ARTIN (Marseilles, France)) Research Association of the Armenian Memory President www.webaram.com/ Armen ASATRYAN, MD, MPH - Atlanta, GA (USA) Hayk R. ASATRYAN (Armenia) « Light a Candle » campaign Light a Candle website (Originator-Administrator) www.candle.direct.am/ Vahagn AVEDIAN (Sweden) « Let's Light the Night » campaign Armenica (Project Manager) www.armenica.org/ Simon AYNEDJIAN (Cyprus) Gibrahayer e-magazine (Chief Editor) http://gibrahayer.cyprusnewsletter.com/ Aram BARCEGHIAN (Argentina) « Armenia Forever » campaign Armenian Communities of Latin America and Spain Coordinator (IAN website) www.ian.cc/inicio.php Jean-Pierre BERBERIAN Armenian Euro-Association (Spokesman) Local Councillor of Marseilles city Chevalier on National Merit Order Rev. Fr. Dr. Khatchadour BOGHOSSIAN, Pastor Holy Trinity Armenian Apostolic Church (Worcester, Mass. USA) http://www.armenianprelacy.org/093004b.htm Marie BOGHOSSIAN ** Yeretzgin ** (Worcester, Mass. USA) http://www.imprescriptible.fr/dossiers/boghossian/ Me Haytoug L. CHAMLIAN (Canada) Attorney -at- Law Diana DERGARABETIAN (Argentina) Sardarabad (Editor) Denis DONIKIAN French writer (Armenian Cause) http://denisdonikian.blog.lemonde.fr/denisdonikian/ David C.EKCHIAN (Switzerland) Switzerland-Armenia Association (website) Originator-Administrator : www.armenian.ch/ Alain GERARD In charge of Imprescriptible website against genocide denial www.imprescriptible.fr/ Sako GESOKSHENIAN (Lebanon) Proud to be Armenian website (Creator-Administrator) www.proudtobearmenian.com/main.htm Alain GUZELBODUR (France) AGBU Paris (Youth Chairman) www.ugab.info/ Garo HAKOPIAN (Sweden) Chairman : Union of Armenian Associations in Sweden. Web: www.armeniska.se Armin « R-Mean » HARIRI (USA) Singer, http://r-mean.com/open.html « Open Wounds » (video) its website was attacked by Hackers on april 12 www.myspace.com/pentagoninfo Hrach KALSAHAKIAN (United Arab Emirats) AZAD hye website (Originator-Administrator) www.azad-hye.net/ Jean-Claude KEBADJIAN Armenian Research Center Founder-President www.crda-france.org/ Agop KERKIACHARIAN International Academy Ararat of Sciences President www.ararat-academy.org/ Alfred MARKARIAN (Australia) Garoon Armenian Monthly Sports Publisher www.ararat.org.au/ Seta MARTAYAN (Italy) Armenian Community Association of Roma & Lazio President Roger MERIAN Psychanalyst, Rennes University Misak OHANIAN (United Kingdom) (CEO), Centre for Armenian Information & Advice (CAIA) Hayashen www.caia.org.uk/ Armen G. SARKISIAN (Uruguay) Armenian Portal website (Originator – Administrator) www.armenia.com.uy/inicio/inicio.htm Vahe SHAHINIAN (USA) Burbank ANC Activist www.burbankanc.org Yervant SIMONIAN (Brazil) Armenia Brazil Association website Originator – Administrator www.armenia.com.br/ Jean Varoujan SIRAPIAN : Tchobanian Institut Founder President www.tchobanian.org/ Ara TORANIAN Editor (France) Nouvelles d Armenie Magazine News paper and website www.armenews.com/ Jeannine VARTANIAN Chevalier on National Merit Order Edouard VARTANIAN Chevalier of Legion of Honor Tebrotzassere school www.tebrotzassere.com/cms/index.php Armen VARTANIAN (USA) GenocideEvents website Originator-Designer www.genocideevents.com/ Vahe VARTANIAN (Italy) Friendships Armeno-Italian Association (Zatik) Director www.zatik.com/fastnews.asp Hrant S. VARTZBEDIAN (Egypt) Armenians United Worldwide http://groups.yahoo.com/group/armenian Eilian WILLIAMS (Walles, UK) Wales-Armenia Solidarity www.armenia-wales.org/ YEVROBATSI website Editorial staff www.yevrobatsi.org/st/index.php?r=0 Narek ZOGRABYAN - Misak ZETILYAN « Never Again » campaign http://www.hyefrat.com/Genocide/ Because Union makes Force, you also, add your signature to the list of the international personalities, and send this mail amongst your friends circle.

PBS-TV (USA) AFFAIR & the REVISIONISTS Please petition PBS against airing of the so-called "Debate" Armenian Genocide Deniers. Below is the text of the letter by r. Dickran Abrahamian, the initiator of this petition campaign: http://www.PetitionOnline.com/pbspanel/petition.html Thank you to join to the thousands signatures Jean ECKIAN (www.inhomage.com) ----------- Dear Friend, If you are against the debating of the Armenian Genocide with Genocide deniers and giving deniers equal air time, please sign the petition below which is self explanatory. Could you please also send the petition to people you know to obtain their signatures? In the section Name you may add your titles if you so wish, and in the section Country you may indicate the city and country and the server will accept. Thank you, Dikran J. Abrahamian BA, MD The follwing articles were published in the February 10-17, 2006 issue of USA Armenian Life Magazine: 1) PBS Should Not Let Turkey Stifle Honest Free Speech in USA Through Dishonest, Fraudulent „free‰ Speech By APPO K. JABARIAN Executive Publisher & Managing Editor USA Armenian Life Magazine Hye Kiank Armenian Weekly 2) Boycott PBS Stations that Air "Balancing" Panel on Genocide By Harut Sassounian Publisher, The California Courier 1) PBS Should Not Let Turkey Stifle Honest Free Speech in USA Through Dishonest, Fraudulent „free‰ Speech Friday February 10, 2006 By APPO K. JABARIAN Executive Publisher & Managing Editor USA Armenian Life Magazine Hye Kiank Armenian Weekly Recently, it was learned that on April 17, PBS will air „The Armenian Genocide‰, a documentary produced by Andrew Goldberg‚s Two Cat Productions. In addition to broadcasting the documentary, PBS is said to be planning to air a 25-minute long panel discussion that includes two genocide deniers. It is widely believed that PBS may have given in on Turkish denialist government‚s pressures. Pro-truth and pro-justice activists in USA and around the world, were alarmed by a strongly-worded opinion column by world-renown political commentator Harut Sassounian (Please see page E7). In this writer‚s opinion the decision by PBS to air the panel discussion is ill-devised. PBS should not give in to the denialist Turkish government, and worst, should not let Turkey stifle honest free speech in USA through dishonest „free‰ speech. No speech is free, when it is saddled by fraudulent comments made by willful deniers who knowingly lie about the historic facts of the 1915 Armenian Genocide that continues to affect a whole nation. As of Tuesday night, only a few hours after the worldwide web-casting of Sassounian‚s column numerous reactions began to come in. One such response is a letter by Mr. Emil Sanamyan of Arlington, Virginia, USA. In his remarks to Ms. Atlas of PBS, Mr. Sanamyan wrote: „I am an avid PBS viewer and supporter, living in Arlington, VA. I am writing in regard to the Armenian Genocide documentary which is due to air on PBS on April 17. While I commend you for the decision to carry this program, I object to the subsequent panel discussion that includes unabashed deniers of the Genocide.‰ He continued: „I hope you will drop this panel and let the documentary, which incorporates a number of diverse Turkish voices on this issue, to stand on its own.‰ The political war between the righteous individuals, organizations, and governments acknowledging the 1915-23 Armenian Genocide at the hands of the Turks, on the one side, and the denialists, on the other, has been intensifying during the last decade. Officialdom Turkey and its cronies have been waking up from one nightmare to face yet new and even more troubling nightmares in their desperate futile attempts to cover up and/or deny the historic facts of the Armenian Genocide. The denialists seem to be especially troubled by rising new waves of home-grown Turkish righteous individuals like Halil Berktay, Orhan Pamuk, Taner Akcam, Fatima Muge Gocek, Yigit Bener, Ahmet Altan, Elif Shafak -to name afew- who have dared to cross the denialist „rubicon‰ in clear defiance of their Turkish denialist government. Even more troubling for the Turkish denialists, is the growing ranks of activists -regardless of their race, color or religion- demanding the acknowledgment of a crime that occurred 91 years ago. Obviously, Mr. Ali Birand was more than correct in his prediction that he had made nearly a year ago. Mr. Birand, a Turkish commentator had predicted and warned his readers that in 2005, on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the 1915 Armenian Genocide, that an Armenian Tsunami may be flooding the international arena, dealing the Turkish denialists a serious blow. With the way pro-truth and pro-justice activism is progressing, Mr. Birand may surely predict unrelenting political Hurricane Armenia not only in the days to come in 2006, but in the years to follow, until such time as the denialist Turks come to their senses and acknowledge that, what is now called Turkey is „built‰on the ashes of Western Armenia, and her 1.5 million martyrs. ______________________________ Boycott PBS Stations that Air "Balancing" Panel on Genocide By Harut Sassounian Publisher, The California Courier PBS is planning to air immediately after the April 17 broadcast of Andrew Goldberg‚s "The Armenian Genocide" documentary, a 25-minute long panel discussion that includes two genocide deniers, Asbarez reported last week. Goldberg told this writer that he did not agree with the PBS decision to hold a panel discussion on the Armenian Genocide. "I don't believe such a panel is necessary. I had absolutely nothing to do with it," he said. Prof. Fatma Muge Gocek, a Turkish American scholar who opposes the Turkish government‚s denials of the Armenian Genocide, explained to this writer why she refused to be on the panel: "I felt that I had said what I wanted to say in the documentary and I did not understand what additional discussion was going to contribute to it, other than give Justin McCarthy and Omer Turan a chance to articulate the Turkish state view. I see this as PBS politicizing the issue and giving in to Turkish State pressure. It sets a bad precedent and it is bound to be hailed as a victory by the Turkish State and their nationalist Diaspora. I would rather not have the documentary aired at all under such conditions." The panel discussion, pre-taped by PBS on Feb. 6, included Prof. Peter Balakian (Colgate Univ., NY), Prof. Taner Akcam (Univ. of Minnesota), Prof. Justin McCarthy (Univ. of Louisville), and Prof. Omer Turan (Middle East Technical Univ., Ankara). The moderator was Scott Simon of NPR (National Public Radio). Balakian is the author of "The Burning Tigris" and "Black Dog of Fate." Akcam is a Turkish scholar who is a staunch defender of the facts of the Armenian Genocide. McCarthy and Turan are genocide deniers. In a lengthy letter dated Nov. 28, 2005, Balakian wrote to David Davis, the Vice President of National TV Production at PBS, explaining why he strongly objected to the post-documentary panel discussion. Saying, "this would be a serious mistake for both intellectual and ethical reasons," Balakian made the following arguments: "First, it seems to me that there is no need for it. My understanding is that post-show discussions are tagged on to documentaries that lack balance. The Armenian Genocide documentary is well-balanced, and is ground-breaking because there are more than a half-dozen Turkish voices in the film -- both Turkish scholars discussing the Armenian Genocide and some Turkish voices denying it. If this were not the case, I could see that there might be a reason to follow it with a discussion about Turkish perspectives, but here, at last, we have an extraordinary number of Turkish voices already incorporated. "Second, from a scholarly perspective, I think it‚s important for PBS to understand that the Armenian Genocide is not a controversial issue. What happened to the Armenians in the last days of the Ottoman Empire is genocide ˆ this is the mainstream consensus worldwide. "Third, I believe it is ethically wrong to privilege deniers by giving their position equal weight. This is the conclusion the New York Times, Boston Globe, Chronicle of Higher Education and other media have come to. "Fourth, with all due respect to the pressures on PBS, this is still the United States of America ˆ our country and culture -- and our own Public Broadcasting System. There is no reason why fear of protests by a foreign government should inform our culture‚s programming. In the struggle for truth in the face of coercion and cover-up, it is vitally important for distinguished institutions, particularly public ones, to hold their ground in the face of Turkish government intimidation. By giving Turkey additional airtime following a fair documentary on the Armenian Genocide, PBS in effect would be supporting Turkey‚s well-funded denialist campaign." I agree with all of Prof. Balakian‚s well-reasoned arguments. Even though I am quite confident that Balakian and Akcam could easily demolish McCarthy‚s and Turan‚s baseless conjectures, I find it offensive that PBS is providing to genocide revisionists a platform from which they can spew their denialist venom. As Prof. Gocek suggested earlier, this panel discussion would create an unwelcome precedent for all future programs on the Armenian Genocide. Furthermore, the holding of such a panel is an insult to both the victims as well as the survivors of the Armenian Genocide. Since PBS executives would never think of including neo-Nazis in a panel discussion following the airing of a Holocaust documentary, why would they do it in the case of an Armenian Genocide documentary? As I had stated in an earlier review, Goldberg‚s documentary is already excessively fair and balanced. It includes remarks by several Turkish revisionists. There is no need to further balance it by adding more denialists in a panel after the show. I suggest that all those who disagree with the PBS decision to provide a platform to genocide revisionists take the following actions: 1. Send an e-mail to Jacoba Atlas, Senior Vice President of PBS programming, asking her to cancel the airing of the panel discussion. Her e-mail address is: jatlas@pbs.org; 2. Contact your local PBS station and urge the programming director not approve the airing of the panel discussion (each station, independently of PBS, decides whether or not to air this optional panel discussion); 3. Advise your station manager that if he goes ahead with the airing of the panel discussion, you would neither watch nor financially support the station. Furthermore, you would urge the station‚s corporate and foundation sponsors to cease their support; 4. If no satisfactory action is taken by PBS, then contact your Congressional representative, asking that Congress cut back the funding to PBS because of its insensitivity to viewers‚ concerns; 5. If the panel discussion is aired, whenever PBS broadcasts a Turkey-related documentary in the future, demand that a panel discussion be held after each show to balance the Turkish propaganda. All those who care about upholding the truth should not allow PBS to question the veracity of the Armenian Genocide under pressure from the Turkish government and its hired guns.

The ultimate insult on the Armenian people : Ankara announces the celebration of the 85th birthday of died of Talaat ***** in Berlin. From the 15 to next 19 March, at the request of Ankara, Berlin, capital of Germany will celebrate the 85ème birthday of dead of the blood thirsty man Talaat *****, large directing of the Genocide of the Armenians in 1915, Minister of Interior Department of the government Young-Turk of 1913 to 1917 and chief of the Committee Union and Progress during the First World War. He will be assassinated in Berlin on March 15, 1921 by the young Armenian Soghomon Tehlirian. At the time, when the Turkish negationnist State makes all his efforts to obstruct the Recognition of the Genocide of our people, it is more than ever of extreme importance which each Armenian in the world testifies on www.inhomage.com. Each registered name brings the proof of Ottoman barbarity. Let us make our duty, whereas a website insult also our memory by copying the name of , with Please, inform your circle. Thank you. --------------------- source http://www.ip.org.tr/haber_detay2.asp?haber_id=431

a Message from Switzerland-Armenia-Association ---------------------------------------------------------- Armenian communities are devastated now by a second form of genocide stemming from indifference. Do we believe that we should have to wait until the 100th commemmoration of this genocide in order for justice to be served? No! With the passage of time, the Armenian identity is in the process of a gradual dilution due to assimilation and mixed marriages, as people integrate into increasingly diverse societies that are being claimed by the forces of globalization. Its future is thus in great danger. A vital necessity is thus presented before us by these events: a call to all Armenians on the planet to testify and bear witness, as a duty to our collective peace of mind, that the Genocide of 1915 was neither an illusion, nor a point of view. Because our dead had names, and we are going to prove it. This is why we must gather all our energy - as well as your help - to stand back up and conquer this enormous challenge: OUR DEAD STILL HAVE A NAME. In all countries, in all cities, in all villages, on all the streets and on every floor of every building; on the radio, on TV, on the Internet and through the pages of Armenian presses, let us sensitize and raise the awareness of our compatriots to bear witness, in the face of humanity, that our people suffered the unspeakable: a GENOCIDE ! Let us supply the Memorial www.inhomage.com with the names of our sacrificed forefathers as long as their eradication from their ancestral grounds is not officially recongized by the Turkish state. This testimony, on the global level, will contribute to the realization of the international community of the disaster that struck the Armenian people; irrefutable proof issued by the descendants of those who have died – but whose graves are unmarked. By undertaking this action, we maybe able to relieve our children of the heavy burdens of the past, so that they may more thoroughly and freely invest their energies in a better future, and in helping Armenia get on its feet more quickly. Thank you for widely conveying and disseminating this information, in the memory of our martyrs. Thanks to you, the names of more than one million of our brothers and sisters will feature on this Memorial so that their justice will be served. Want the Recognition is natural, but to bring again elements being able to contribute it is our duty. Thank you - for them. Tser ays ararkov, medzaradz bidi ellak mer 1915 tvagani nahadagnére. Chnorhagaloutioun. Jean ECKIAN Author, Creator of web site Co-organizer of the recording « Aznavour for Armenia » after earthquake of 1988. « The idea is to allow Armenian diaspora to locate the birthplace of ancestors who disappeared during the Genocide, and to enter their names in a database. A second interactive operation allows people to view the names that have been entered, region by region, and make contact with a family from the same place but now living on the other side of the world; a promise for the family to eventually be reunited. » Traductores - Übersetzer > http://www.freetranslation.com/free/ _________________________ With Switzerland-Armenia Association ASA-GSA-SAA, help us fighting denial ! ______________________________________________________________________

it's A VIRTUAL MEMORIAL IN HOMAGE TO THE ARMENIAN VICTIMS of OTTOMAN EMPIRE (1915), and to reconstitute the families separated by exodus. This is the first time that a website of this type has been published. A map of Asia Minor, which can be found on the homepage, which is dated 1920 (Treaty of Sevres), shows the Armenia whose contours were outlined in 1918 by US President Woodrow WILSON. The idea is to allow Diaspora Armenians (over 6.1 million & 3.2 million in Armenia) to locate the birthplace of ancestors who disappeared during the Genocide, and to enter their names in a database. A second interactive operation allows people to view the names that have been entered, region by region, and make contact with a family from the same place but now living on the other side of the world; a promise for the family to eventually be reunited. Great website !!!