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    "ARMENIAN GENOCIDE: EVIDENCES OF EYE-WITNESS SURVIVORS" BOOK OF VERJINE SVAZLIAN TO BE PUBLISHED IN TURKEY AND U.S.

    Noyan Tapan
    Mar 20 2007

    YEREVAN, MARCH 20, NOYAN TAPAN. Verjine Svazlian's "Armenian Genocide:
    Evidences of Eye-Witness Survivors" voluminous collection will be
    published in Turkey and U.S. with English and Turkish translations
    till the end of the year.

    As V. Svazlian informed the Noyan Tapan correspondent, evidences of
    660 eye-witnesses of the genocide as well as Armenian and Turkish
    language songs describing those massacres are presented in the
    collection, for the first time published in 2000. It was mentioned
    that evidences of other 100 eye-witnesses were gathered in different
    colonies of Diaspora during the recent 7 years.

    In V. Svazlian's words, the evidences gathered in the collection
    present the whole clear picture of the Armenian Genocide, mobilization
    of Armenians organized by the Young Turkish government, mass removals
    of Armenians as well as heroic struggles of Musa Dagh, Urfa, Ayntap,
    Marash, Izmir.

    To recap, another "The Armenian Genocide and People's Historic Memory"
    work of V. Svazlian which was translated into English, German, French,
    Russian and Turkish, was presented to U.S. President George Bush,
    California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, House of Lords of England,
    etc. V. Svazlian recently got a letter from Lord Eric Avebury in
    which it is particularly said: "I think that we start fixing success
    in the direction of arising awareness about the Armenian Genocide
    among parliamentarians of Western Europe and North America.

    Though there is still a long way to pass till the Turk people will
    be ready to stand face-to-face with its past."
    General Antranik (1865-1927): “I am not a nationalist. I recognize only one nation, the nation of the oppressed.”

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    Memoir Detailing Armenian Intellectuals'
    Arrests on April 24, 1915, Published in English

    TOLUCA LAKE, Calif. - The Fatal Night, an eyewitness account of the arrest
    and extermination of hundreds of Armenian intellectuals and civic leaders in
    Istanbul, Turkey, starting on April 24, 1915, has been translated to English and
    is available by mail and in Armenian bookstores.

    Originally written in Armenian by renowned journalist, educator and community
    leader Mikayel Shamtanchian (1874-1926), one of the imprisoned Armenians who
    succeeded in escaping from an Anatolian death camp, The Fatal Night offers a
    psychological portrait of innocent men who experienced the indignities and
    uncertainty of exile before being massacred.

    "Whether through luck or an intense will to live, Shamtanchian survived the
    carnage and went on to bequeath to future generations the moving image of
    Siamanto as the latter sat dejectedly across the desk of a deceitful Turkish police
    chief; the haunting echoes of 'Lord, Have Mercy,' the last hymn sung by
    Komitas and a throng of exiles held in a Turkish military fort; the harrowing pangs
    of Varuzhan and Sevak as they were slaughtered in the field of death called
    Ayash=80¦"

    Shamtanchian's memoir includes a partial list of names of the Armenian
    intellectuals, civic leaders, and priests who perished during the Armenian Genocide.
    Historians estimate that some 1,200 such individuals were massacred.

    H. and K. Manjikian Publications had the book translated on the occasion of
    the 92nd anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. It is the second in what will
    become a series of memoirs in the Genocide Library established by Manjikian
    Publications. The first book, Passage Through Hell, was published in 2005. Ishkhan
    Jinbashian translated both books.

    The English version of The Fatal Night includes a page in memorium for Hrant
    Dink, the Armenian journalist and human rights advocate who was slain by a
    Turk in Istanbul earlier this year, "the first known Armenian victim in the21st
    century of Turkey's ongoing genocidal project."

    To order The Fatal Night, send $15 to H. and K. Manjikian, P.O. Box 2734,
    Toluca Lake, CA 91610-0734. The book is also available at the Sardarabad, Abril
    and Berj bookstores in Glendale and at the St. Vartan bookstore in New York.
    For further information, e-mail [email protected].
    General Antranik (1865-1927): “I am not a nationalist. I recognize only one nation, the nation of the oppressed.”

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