Unknown organization threatens to massacre Armenians of Akhaltsikha

[Gavur]

12.10.2005 18:08

YEREVAN (YERKIR) - Leaflets in Russian were posted on the buildings of Akhalkalak on the early hours of October 12, signed by an unknown organization calling itself Brigade of Akhaltsikhe Liberation, and depicting Turkish symbol of crescent and star.

The leaflets urge Armenian of Akhlatsikha to "move to Armenia, Russia, United States or else were. Otherwise, you will be massacred like your ancestors in 1915."

On October 12, the Akhalkalak District Assembly invited to its session the heads of the prosecutor's office, police and state security service to hear explanations. The Assembly instructed the officials to find out those responsible for dissemination the leaflets and make a relevant statement.

Though the threats targeted the Akhaltsikha residents, no such leaflets were found in Akhaltsikha or Ninotsminda.

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Genocide not the only crime against Armenians, Armenian official says

11.10.2005 12:15

YEREVAN (YERKIR) - Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's letter to the Armenian President Robert Kocharian, proposing to set up a joint commission of historians to study the Armenian issue, was a smart attempt to trick the international community, Armenian National Assembly Vice-speaker Vahan Hovhannisian said in his report last week at the NATO-organized Rose-Roth seminar in Yerevan.

Hovhannisian, who also is a member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation Bureau, said that besides the 1915 Genocide, Turkey has committed another crime against Armenians when in 1919, it unleashed a war against the independent Republic of Armenia.

Before the Turkish aggression -- supported by the Russian Bolsheviks -- Armenia's territory was 70,000 square kilometers, and as a result of the war, Armenia lost the regions of Kars, Ardahan and Surmalu as well as the populations of those regions. Hovhannisian said it was an aggression against a sovereign state, and many of the issues currently destabilizing the South Caucasus region have been stemming from that very aggression.

Those issues include the Armenian-Azerbaijani and Armenian-Turkish confrontations. Therefore, Hovhannisian concluded, it would be more effective to set up an intergovernmental commission, as proposed by President Kocharian in his response letter, rather than a commission of historians. Speaking of Turkey's aspiration to join the European Union, Hovhannisian said the Turkish society is not yet ready to accept such European value as admitting guilt. "The Turkish society must first change itself," he indicated.

Hovhannisian also hailed Turkish historian Halil Berkta's position that 1915 events should be qualified clearly as genocide. "His speech would be rather useful for those Armenian politicians who repeat the Turkish official position that the Armenian Genocide was a result of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation's activities," he added.

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Armenians A Target Of Georgian Flattery With Turkey

The friendship of fraternal Georgia with Armenia and the Armenian people was at times more dangerous than the hatred of ill-disposed Azerbaijan. The reason is perhaps hidden in inclination of scot-free Georgians to turn impudent once a chance is granted. To prove this point we may turn to the October 12 leaflets distributed by the "brigade of Akhaltskha liberation."

The leaflets threatened to banish Armenians from their native lands, condemned them in poisoning Georgian air, called them "unfaithful dogs" reminding meanwhile with delight of the genocide of 1915.

It's noteworthy that Turkish president Ozal Turgut, who lashed at Armenians in 1993 also reminding of the genocide threatening them, died in April of the same year. His death is a mystery till now.

In other words, it is not peculiar to Georgian rabble to remind Armenians of the genocide. But what is peculiar to them is the tactics of threatening their centuries old neighbor through Turkey. Perhaps the Turkish symbols of crescent and star on the leaflets and the time of distribution on the day of opening of Georgian section of Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline October 12 that brought Turkish President Ahmed Nejet Sezer to Tbilisi were intentionally chosen.

Apparently the Georgians wanted the master to stand by them to give courage in their venture. The fact that Turkey still has not given up its policy of genocide multiplied their bravery. The Georgian rabble called Armenians "unfaithful dogs" and "hired jackals" to find favor in the master's eyes.

Only a nation devoid of self-esteem can flatter with a foreign state. But it cannon make flattery a political mission as it will be of no avail. To understand this truism one needs self-esteem. But the Georgian rabble's only dignity is its stupidity otherwise it would not fall upon Armenians nor would remind of the genocide after shameful defeat at the hands of only 70.000 Abkhazians. Why? Because in 1918 heartened by German promises the Georgians took advantage of Armenia's desperate position with thousands of hungry refugees, under permanent plots of Azerbaijan and invaded Lori-Pambak. The Armenian forces led by Dro purged the territory of the republic completely defeating invaders.

Moreover, general Tsulukidze, the then commander of the Georgian front, was first to escape from the battlefield creating an alarming situation in Georgia. Well aware that the Armenians, still bleeding after the 1915, managed to teach a lesson to Turks at Sardarapat, the Georgian rabble appealed to the English-French army, otherwise the fate of Tbilisi would be decided.

Therefore, instead of reminding the Armenian people of the 1915, they should recall the crushing defeat of Georgian forces in Armenia in December of 1918 and consider who and in what circumstances stopped the entry of the Armenian forces to half-deserted Tbilisi.

But it is not only the Georgian rabble that matters but also the permissiveness that rages in Javakhk and Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili's statement that "we are bringing control now which means that there may be clashes at a certain stage." This obviously provocative statement can be conditioned by criticism in the Western, particularly American, press of Saakashvili. The Georgian President seems to fail to remove the West's dissatisfaction, and he, following Ilham Aliyev, tries to pin hopes on Turkey well aware that Turkey yearns to see Armenian-Georgian relations aggravated.

Otherwise, Davit Rstakian, head of Virk NGO of Akhalkalak, would not see Georgian special services behind the leaflet case.

By Hakob Chakrian

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A 70-minute Film About ‘turkish Genocide’ Disseminated In Russia

Turkey keeps on distorting facts as it fights international recognition of the Armenian Genocide. Another manifestation of this policy came into sight in Russia where, by the way, the Genocide is recognized by the State Duma. But that was no obstacle for Komersant-Dengi journal to insert a 70-minute film on the "Turkish genocide committed by the Armenians" in its recent issue.

Speaking to daily Azg, Ara Abrahamian, chairman of the Armenians of Russia, labeled the film "absurd" that does not deserve to be commented on but added that they wait for explanation from the Russian magazine. Mr. Abrahamian said that there is no man by the name of the ad owner as the publishing house gave it. He said that the Union works with the Armenian Embassy in Moscow to find who is behind the ad.

By Nana Petrosian