Armenia and the information war

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New Azeri TV channel, new opportunities for misinformation


October 22, 2010 | 21:11
The National TV and Radio Council has announced the winner of the contest for a television frequency in Baku and Absheron peninsula.

The results were completely predictable: the Aztv Company, the only participant in the contest, “won” it.

The National Television of Azerbaijan will soon have a new channel, Culture. The “cultural values” will be disseminated by a company which showed Christian crosses on the bronze belts found during excavations and claimed it was “a proof their ancient Azerbaijani origin,” to say nothing of Aliev’s tales about Yerevan as “capital of western Azerbaijan” and other idiocies.


News from Armenia - NEWS.am

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Just a heads up guys apparently the documentary "A story of people in war and peace" will be aired on PBS on October 24.

PBS to air two Armenian documentaries
Published: Thursday October 14, 2010


Filmmaker Vardan Hovhannisyan.

YEREVAN - Two top Armenian documentaries - both award-winning human stories - will be shown on public television in the US over the next two Sundays.

On Sunday October 17, Public Television stations around the country will show "The Last Tightrope Dancer in Armenia," a warm, thoughtful, beautifully-shot story about the dying art of tightrope dancers, and the continuing competition and camaraderie between two old masters, and the hopes they place on one young artist.

On Sunday October 24, the same public television stations will screen "A Story of People in War and Peace," a passionate film that follows the lives of soldiers and nurses who spent years in the trenches during the Karabakh war. The film has already screened on BBC, ARTE and other international channels, and has won over 20 awards including the FIPRESCI (International Federation of Film Critics) prize. For its director, Vardan Hovhannisyan, the film also garnered a Best New Documentary Filmmaker Prize at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York.

"The Last Tightrope Dancer" is the acclaimed work of two young filmmakers -- Inna Sahakyan and Arman Yeritsyan. Both have produced several documentaries over the last decade. Sahakyan has directed more than 10 social documentaries for Armenian television and worked as assistant director on "A Story of People in War and Peace." Yeritsyan has directed a number of award-winning documentaries including,"Under the Open Sky" and "Goodbye Fellini."

Both films are produced by Bars Media, which was established by Vardan Hovhannisyan in 1993. Bars Media specializes in making documentaries about human stories, culture, history and other social issues. The studio currently develops documentary films in Africa, Russia and Afghanistan.

The Public Television showings on October 17 and 24 offer a unique opportunity for the Armenian-American public and the public at large to enjoy these excellent productions. Both films have English subtitles.

Information about cities and airing time at: http://www.pbs.org/itvs/globalvoices/guide.html

Finally, lets hope someone records and uploads it so i can watch it.

CNN International to Feature the Defense of Musa Dagh

CNN International will feature this weekend a report covering the heroic defense of Musa Dagh during the Armenian Genocide. The segment, produced by Yerkir Media for broadcast on CNN, will mark the 95th anniversary of the famed resistance against the Turkish army in 1915.

Reporting the story will be Yerkir Media correspondent Gayane Avetisyan. It will feature footage from a recent commemoration of the anniversary in Armenia, as well as interviews with Musa-Dagh descendants living in Armenia.

Armenian communities around the world that trace their heritage to this once thriving city in Asia Minor celebrate the anniversary every year, with a unique festival and reenactments of the resistance. Of the hundreds of villages, towns, and cities across the Ottoman Empire whose Armenian population was ordered removed to the Syrian desert, Musa Dagh was one of only four sites where Armenians organized a defense of their community against the deportation edicts issued by the Young Turk regime beginning in April 1915.

By the time the Armenians of the six villages at the base of Musa Dagh were instructed to evict their homes, the inhabitants had grown suspicious of the government’s ultimate intentions and chose instead to retreat up the mountain and to defy the evacuation order. Musa Dagh, or the Mountain of Moses, stood on the Mediterranean Sea south of the coastal town of Alexandretta (modern-day Iskenderun) and west of ancient Antioch.

With a few hundred rifles and the entire store of provisions from their villages, the Armenians on Musa Dagh put up a fierce resistance against a number of attempts by the regular Turkish army to flush them out. Outnumbered and outgunned, the Armenians had little expectations of surviving the siege of the mountain when food stocks were depleted after a month.

Their only hope was a chance rescue by an Allied vessel that might be patrolling the Mediterranean coast. When two large banners hoisted by the Armenians were sighted by a passing French warship, swimmers went out to meet it. Eventually five Allied ships moved in to transport the entire population of men, women, and children, more than four thousand in all.

The Armenians of Musa Dagh had endured for fifty three days from July 21 to September 12, 1915. They were disembarked at Port Said in Egypt and remained in Allied refugee camps until the end of World War I when they returned to their homes. As part of the district of Alexandretta, or Hatay, Musa Dagh remained under French Mandate until 1939. The Musa Dagh Armenians abandoned their villages for a second, and final, time when the area was annexed by Turkey.

In the face of the complete decimation of the Armenian communities of the Ottoman Empire, Musa Dagh became a symbol of the Armenian will to survive. Of the three other sites where Armenians defied the deportation orders, Shabin Karahissar, Urfa, and Van, only the Armenians of Van were rescued when the siege of their city was lifted by an advancing Russian army. The Armenians of Urfa and Shabin Karahissar were either massacred or deported. Musa Dagh stood as the sole instance where the Western Allies at war with the Ottomans averted the death of a community during the Armenian Genocide.

The CNN segment on this positive moment in a dark history will air on CNN International on the following dates and times:

* Friday, Oct. 22: 10:30PM PST
* Saturday, Oct. 23: 6:30 AM PST
* Sunday, Oct. 24: 6:30 PM PST
* Monday, Oct. 25: 1:30 AM PST
* Tuesday, Oct. 26: 8:30 PM PST

It will also be available online Monday at http://www.cnn.com/worldview

http://asbarez.com/87156/cnn-interna...-dagh-defense/

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it was a great documentary. i dont know what the azeris were xxxxxing about. The documentary was about a group of soldiers, who the cameraman was with during the war and what they are doing now. im glad PBS showed the documentary and didnt fold to the azeri threats.

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it was a great documentary. i dont know what the azeris were xxxxxing about. The documentary was about a group of soldiers, who the cameraman was with during the war and what they are doing now. im glad PBS showed the documentary and didnt fold to the azeri threats.

Do you have an idea where I can watch this now?

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Do you have an idea where I can watch this now?

in glendale/burbank with charter its going to show at 3:00pm today on channel 311 (World channel). you can check on the PBS website:

http://www.pbs.org/itvs/globalvoices/broadcast.html

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Assembly of Azerbaijani Canadians Organizations condemns Sargsyan’s statement
Mon 25 October 2010 06:10 GMT | -1:10 Local Time
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Serzh Sargsyan
The Assembly of Azerbaijani Canadians Organization has expressed deep concern over the recent statement of Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan.
Referring to the results of some genetic researches, the Armenian President said that 'Armenia exists within the last 8000 years' as a nation.

Further, in line with the expansionist policy of Armenia, its whole rhetoric was targeting Azerbaijan. This is not the first case, when Armenian high-ranking officials are making statements about the superiority of the Armenian people, over Azerbaijanis and other nations of the region and some of them even suggested that Azerbaijanis, as a young nation, have no right to settle in their current territories', the Assembly says.

The statement says that the history of Nazism knows the implications of genetics and such kinds of researches for Europe and the whole humanity about 60 years ago.

'President Serzh Sargsyan, as his forerunner Robert Kocharian, who pronounced a famous comment on the so-called “incompatibility of Azerbaijani and Armenian nations' continues to use the language of racism, superiority and hatred.

'The Assembly of Azerbaijani Canadian Organizations urges the Canadian government, which made a great contribution to combat with Nazism, condemn the statement of the Armenian president and urge the Armenian government to the compliance of the norms of international law. We also urge the Canadian government to condemn the Armenian occupational policy', the statement says.

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have they paid attention to what there dictator has been stating for the pats few years?

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Assembly of Azerbaijani Canadians Organizations condemns Sargsyan’s statement
Mon 25 October 2010 06:10 GMT | -1:10 Local Time
Text size:

Serzh Sargsyan
The Assembly of Azerbaijani Canadians Organization has expressed deep concern over the recent statement of Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan.
Referring to the results of some genetic researches, the Armenian President said that 'Armenia exists within the last 8000 years' as a nation.

Further, in line with the expansionist policy of Armenia, its whole rhetoric was targeting Azerbaijan. This is not the first case, when Armenian high-ranking officials are making statements about the superiority of the Armenian people, over Azerbaijanis and other nations of the region and some of them even suggested that Azerbaijanis, as a young nation, have no right to settle in their current territories', the Assembly says.

The statement says that the history of Nazism knows the implications of genetics and such kinds of researches for Europe and the whole humanity about 60 years ago.

'President Serzh Sargsyan, as his forerunner Robert Kocharian, who pronounced a famous comment on the so-called “incompatibility of Azerbaijani and Armenian nations' continues to use the language of racism, superiority and hatred.

'The Assembly of Azerbaijani Canadian Organizations urges the Canadian government, which made a great contribution to combat with Nazism, condemn the statement of the Armenian president and urge the Armenian government to the compliance of the norms of international law. We also urge the Canadian government to condemn the Armenian occupational policy', the statement says.

1 news.az

With the amount of weapons Azerbaijan has bought and the fact that their military spend
is more than the whole of the Armenian GDP ( so they boast),
it is very surprising they should be rattled by a few rhetoric statements.


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Eduard Sharmazanov: Azerbaijan’s historiography still enmeshed by its mixed genealogy
October 26, 2010 - 19:41 AMT 14:41 GMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Ilham Aliyev put forward ridiculous theses on the history of the artificially formed “Azerbaijani state” to make up for the absence of national history, Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) parliamentary group secretary Eduard Sharmazanov said.

“Azerbaijan’s historiography is still enmeshed by “Midian”, “Aghvanian” and “Turkic” genealogy of its people. “There was no concept of “Azeri nation” up until 1936, when Joseph Stalin artificially divided Tatars of Soviet Azerbaijan and Turks of Asia Minor on the grounds of the two states’ ideological differences,” he stated at parliamentary sitting.

“Among ridiculous concepts suggested are the Azeri origin of Gilgamesh Sumerian epic or biblical Noah’s being called an ancient Azeri scientist and astronomer. Considering the above mentioned, we can still expect Aliyev junior to use the “data” indicated for the amusement of the world,” Sharmazanov stressed.

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Garabagh Fund accuses PBS of lack of political correctness and substitution of facts

Baku, Fineko/abc.az. U.S-registered Public Garabagh Fund has accused TV channel PBS (Public Broadcasting Service), which showed on 24 October program "History of people in times of war and peace" about Azerbaijan territories occupied by Armenia, of lack of political correctness.

The Washington-based Fund sent to PBS president Paula Kerger a letter in which it indicated that the footage failed to give the floor to the Azerbaijani population, which before the start of the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict made up 80% of the Nagorno Garabagh’s population, but was driven out by Armenians. The television film also lacked coverage of value of Nagorno Garabagh to Azerbaijan’s culture and history, and mentioning that Azerbaijan was the first democratic republic in the Orient. To correct this circumstance, the Fund is ready to provide for the channel materials about historical and cultural heritage of Azerbaijan.

Garabagh Fund has the highest status in the U.S. for non-profit-making organization - 501 (C) 3.

these idiots are complaining about the stupidest xxxx. why would the film talk about azerbaijan's democracy or anything about azerbaijan? the documentary was about soldiers who fought in the war and what they are doing now. these azeris are pathetic.

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I cant find any where in the web about that video any links pls???