Harut Posted December 8, 2004 Report Share Posted December 8, 2004 remembering the victims of the brutal earthquake... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ED Posted December 8, 2004 Report Share Posted December 8, 2004 may souls rest in peace. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dianjan Posted December 8, 2004 Report Share Posted December 8, 2004 The devestation and tragedy that Armenian people had to endure on that day, is horrific. May all who passed away rest in peace. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MosJan Posted December 8, 2004 Report Share Posted December 8, 2004 remembering the victims of the brutal earthquake... style_images/master/snapback.png Thank you aper Hishelu hamar Aravotits nayum em te ov er hishelu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harut Posted December 8, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 8, 2004 Thank you aper Hishelu hamar Aravotits nayum em te ov er hishelu style_images/master/snapback.png Ոնց չհիշեմ, էդ ամեն ինչի միջով եմ անցել... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MosJan Posted December 8, 2004 Report Share Posted December 8, 2004 aper chgitem mardiq Antarber en darstel te - arden hognel en t@xur banerits sakayn dar@ irakanutyun e vor inch linum e Mahatsoghin e linum Astvats Hogin Lustavori zoheri Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ED Posted December 8, 2004 Report Share Posted December 8, 2004 (edited) ayo Mosjan hay azg@ hoqnele txrutyunits u tsavits, inch vat kliner chliner txur@ char@ u vat@, mi qutse "mi tani zmez portsutsun, ayl prkya zmez charen" che verbarvel hayin, hayi Karman ujexe mi qutse Edited December 8, 2004 by Edward Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anoushik Posted December 8, 2004 Report Share Posted December 8, 2004 Ոնց չհիշեմ, էդ ամեն ինչի միջով եմ անցել... style_images/master/snapback.png Yes nuynpes. It's already 16 years yet it is so unfortunate that Leninakan has made such little progress. My mom's collegue is still living in the same one room "domik" with her family and the bathroom is outside. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anoushik Posted December 8, 2004 Report Share Posted December 8, 2004 http://img30.exs.cx/img30/9779/flickercandle013ne.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nakharar Posted December 8, 2004 Report Share Posted December 8, 2004 What happened on December 7th? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nakharar Posted December 8, 2004 Report Share Posted December 8, 2004 Whatever. I must be dry drunk today or something. For some reason I saw the title and skimmed down the rest without realizing the references to the earthquake. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arpa Posted December 8, 2004 Report Share Posted December 8, 2004 (edited) What happened on December 7th? style_images/master/snapback.png What happened on Dec. 7th? "A day that will live in infamy?" As put by FDR in reference to the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii by the Japanese air force. FDR had no idea what INFAMY meant as he had not witnessed the devastation at Spitak. Listen to this; http://www.umkc.edu/lib/spec-col/ww2/Pearl.../fdr-speech.htm Since then that date has been superceded by the devastation at Spitak (and Gumri) on Dec. 7, 1988, when 10% of the population was massacred simply due to human(read Soviet) corruption, mixing 99% sand with 1% cement. We have no one to blame but ourselves, when an earthquake of a magnitude of 8 on the Richter Scale hits India and a handful of people lose their lives and one of a magnitude of 6 hits Spitak and we lose 25,000+ dead and more physically and psychologically maimed. Can we stop blaming Jew and Jentile. , I meant Gentile, for our misfortune and grab the by bull(sh**) by the horn and place the blame where it belongs? There were no Jews when the Earthquake hit and neither were there British, French, Persians, Russian or Americans. It was us, Armenians, or whatever you want to call them. Shall we blame it on the Turk, or better yet the Jew? Of course! We are the saints and the they are the satans!! Tell me about Armenian ingenuity, Armenian compassion and Armenian patriotism (What is that? Does that mean "love of one's Fatherland"?) and ethics! Tell me about turkification, russification and above all, judification!! Whatever happened to armenification!? Is "korruptsia" a native Armenian word? Whose country are we preserving? Or, for that matter, destroying? Edited December 8, 2004 by Arpa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nakharar Posted December 8, 2004 Report Share Posted December 8, 2004 What happened on Dec. 7th? "A day that will live in infamy?" As put by FDR in reference to the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii by the Japanese air force. Since then that date has been superceded by the devastation at Spitak (and Gumri) on Dec. 7, 1988, when 10% of the population was massacred simply due to human(read Soviet) corruption, mixing 99% sand with 1% cement. We have no one to blame but ourselves, when an earthquake of a magnitude of 8 on the Richter Scale hits India and a handful of people lose their lives and one of a magnitude of 6 hits Spitak and we lose 25,000+ dead and more physically and psychologically maimed. Tell me about Armenian ingenuity and Armenian compassion! Tell me about turkification, russification and above all, judification!! Whatever happened to armenification!? Is "korruptsia" a native Armenian word? Whose country are we preserving? Or, for that matter, destroying? style_images/master/snapback.png If the above is true we have no one to blame but ourselves. Those contractors should be held accountable as should the bureaucrats who turned a blind eye to these practices. I think it would be best if these "man-made" disasters are treated as war crimes and treason. Because who needs enemies with "friends" like these? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harut Posted December 8, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 8, 2004 sakayn dar@ irakanutyun e vor inch linum e Mahatsoghin e linum style_images/master/snapback.png Ողջ մնացողին էլ է լինում: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nané Posted December 8, 2004 Report Share Posted December 8, 2004 ays aritov Aramayis Sahaykan@ grel e: Ays inc katarvets hayots ashxarhin Voghbergutyun e hamashxarayin Mi bur azg einq, dartsel enq kes bur Isk ayd kes burn el, artasuq e lur ... (sharunakutyun@ chem hishum) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anoushik Posted December 8, 2004 Report Share Posted December 8, 2004 If the above is true we have no one to blame but ourselves. Those contractors should be held accountable as should the bureaucrats who turned a blind eye to these practices. I think it would be best if these "man-made" disasters are treated as war crimes and treason. Because who needs enemies with "friends" like these? style_images/master/snapback.png And today's government should also be responsible for ignoring the victims of the earthquake and failing to provide housing to the majority of the homeless. Of course not, they are too busy polishing up the streets of Yerevan. I guess anything outside of the capital is not worth much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anoushik Posted December 8, 2004 Report Share Posted December 8, 2004 Since then that date has been superceded by the devastation at Spitak (and Gumri) on Dec. 7, 1988, when 10% of the population was massacred simply due to human(read Soviet) corruption, mixing 99% sand with 1% cement. style_images/master/snapback.png And what about the multi-story apartments in Yerevan and other cities? They are also at risk if such a big earthquake were to happen again. Shouldn't these apartment be torn down and be rebuild again? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ED Posted December 9, 2004 Report Share Posted December 9, 2004 (edited) a good friend of mine, Mkhitar khachatryan took this simbolic pickture of this women with her childreen, it became symbolizing the earthquick Edited December 9, 2004 by Edward Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dianjan Posted December 9, 2004 Report Share Posted December 9, 2004 a good friend of mine, Mkhitar khachatryan took this simbolic pickture of this women with her childreen, it became symbolizing the earthquick style_images/master/snapback.png Amazing picture. In the eyes of these people, I saw the pain and devestation that I saw in my relatives. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arpa Posted December 7, 2007 Report Share Posted December 7, 2007 A baby born on this day in 1988 is 19 years old now, yet the tears have not completely dried. We mourn t victims and we keep a moment of silence and contemplation. Look at the numbers below. It was reported that 25,000 had perished. Some say it may be twice that. http://hyeforum.com/index.php?act=Search&a...hlite=%2Binfamy http://search.hp.netscape.com/hp/boomframe...menianow.com%2F ArmeniaNow- Issue #49 (269), December 7, 2007 December 7: Gyumri children of earthquake turn 19 today By By Ani Hakobyan ArmeniaNow regional reporter {ai265801.jpg|left}It was a cold December evening of 1988. In the northern Armenian town of Gyumri 19-year-old Narine Mirzoyan was voiceless suffering labour pains in a room barely lit by candles. In one corner of the room, relatives mourned over the dead body of Narine’s young cousin. The city was without electricity and heat, no doctors were available to help a woman in childbirth and streets were flooded with people whose screams of woe and despair shook the city and deadened Narine’s birthing pains. Narine’s child came into the world on December 7, a day more marked by death than by birth in Gyumri. The 7.5 magnitude earthquake killed 25,000 people, according to published figures (unofficial figures say that the number of victims were twice more) left 150,000 injured and 500,000 without shelter. (Unofficially figures say that some 50,000 people died during the earthquake) The calamity covered 17 percent of the republic and partly or totally destroyed 21 towns and 340 villages levelling the epicentre Spitak town. (Experts say that the energy outburst in the epicentre was equivalent to WWII atomic bombs dropped on Japan. Nineteen years since the day that brought death and new life to Mirzoyan’s family, Narine could not help crying when she recalls her daughter’s birth. “The truth is that I never heartily rejoiced for my first child, (daughter) Khanum,” says Narine. “From day to day more and more victims were found. Gyumri was like a sorrow-mad mother.” Narine recalls the moment when the earthquake happened she even did not realize the danger. She stared at the walls moving until her mother-in-law took her out of house. {ai265802.jpg|right}Her daughter Khanum, born in the evening of Gyumri’s awful fame has nothing to remember of the earthquake, but all her life turned to be affected by it. Khanum’s parents’ home was destroyed during the earthquake and like many in Gyumri her family spent many years in “domiks”, the tiny shelters that were mean to be temporary. “We had no gas, no electricity, no normal living conditions in our home, but I never realized that there could be better homes and thought we had normal living conditions. Later when everything started to get better I realized what was normal”, says 19 year old Khanum Mirzoyan. Today Khanum’s family lives in a newly constructed building, in the town quarter built by Russians. Khanum is a student at a medical college in Gyumri and she has a comfortable separate room with computer, piano, tape recorder. She has a brother who is 17 year old and study at the military academy. “When I was a kid, I could not understand what earthquake is and I was happy to be born on such a memorable day. As I grew up, I started to realize the horror of the earthquake. I heard so much about those terrible days from my parents and TV that now I easily imagine every minute of those days,” says Khanum with pity on her face. “Of course I would never wish to be born on such a day. And I am sure even in many years when all the earthquake consequences will be overcome I would never celebrate December 7 as my birthday.” On December 7, 1988 in Gyumri were born another 6 children. When Khanum turned 16 she met with them at an event organized by the Gyumri municipality. They became friends and often communicate and even celebrated their birthday together. But on the next day. Their birthday is still a day of mourning, and they join others – not around a party table, but going to cemeteries. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arpa Posted December 7, 2007 Report Share Posted December 7, 2007 a good friend of mine, Mkhitar khachatryan took this simbolic pickture of this women with her childreen, it became symbolizing the earthquick BTW. I know Mkho, Mkhitar Khachatrian the potographzer that took that picture. I have met him at severaloccasions. http://www.armenianow.com/archive/2004/200...r/index.asp.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nané Posted December 7, 2007 Report Share Posted December 7, 2007 And today's government should also be responsible for ignoring the victims of the earthquake and failing to provide housing to the majority of the homeless. Of course not, they are too busy polishing up the streets of Yerevan. I guess anything outside of the capital is not worth much. You know every time I watch the Armenia Fund Telethon and contemplate over the proposed plans (which all make sence) I wonder - when is it going to be Gyumri's turn? It's been 19 years ... how much longer are these people going to live in sub-standard conditions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arpa Posted December 7, 2007 Report Share Posted December 7, 2007 http://www.dailynewstribune.com/archive/x1919433948 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anoushik Posted December 7, 2007 Report Share Posted December 7, 2007 Today, for the first time in so many years, I watched the entire Gyumri/Earthquake report on Hyelur. I was glad to know that there is no single school left that's in domik/tnak and all the schools have been reconstructed. Similarly, I was happy to see that Gyumri resembles a city with all facilities for entertainment and sports. It's progress. On the other hand, there are still 6,000 families in need of housing. That's a huge number. (Does anyone know where I could find maps of Gyumri online? How come Google maps has maps of Turkey but none of Armenia? I'd like to have a mental image of Gyumri, to remember major streets, etc..) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MosJan Posted December 7, 2007 Report Share Posted December 7, 2007 Astavst Lusavori Zoheri Hogin kendani mnatsoghnerin el Charcharanqin Apashxaranq... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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