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President Biden Acknowledges the Armenian Genocide

April 25, 2021 · Leave a Comment

At last. #PresidentBiden has turned his back on a century of denial. He charts a new way forward. It is worth noting that Joe Biden has been in government for 36 years. He has borne witness as a government official to the great events of history since the mid-eighties. Now, he is doing something that […]

Launches in Adelaide

April 1, 2021 · Leave a Comment

Most of #Australia ignored a genuine outrage last year, the assault by #Turkish-backed #Azerbaijan on the independent, largely #Armenian-populated Republic of #Artsakh, which began on September 27 and concluded only on November 10 with a Russian-brokered ceasefire, which gave the opportunistic Vladimir Putin his long-coveted Russian boots on Southern Caucasus ground in the form of […]

To Sacrifice Gallipoli

March 25, 2021 · 4 Comments

Many #Australians uncritically hail the sacrifice at #Gallipoli as the blooding of a nation. Mainstream media enhances the narrative with digital sound and fury to elevate the Homeric myth in hearts – as war poet Wilfred Owen observed – ‘ardent for some desperate glory’. And somehow, our sons are their sons, lying in #Turkish soil. […]

#Australia has mostly forgotten the #ArmenianGenocide.

March 15, 2021 · Leave a Comment

Australian soldiers with Armenians

When Australians went to war for the first time in 1915, they laid over in Egypt for training while waiting to be deployed to Gallipoli, and later the Western Front. Some of them came into contact with the #Armenian colony in Cairo, but a number of #Armenian prisoners at Gallipoli were put to work as […]

I Remember …

March 7, 2021 · Leave a Comment

I remember - Angel of Aleppo

I remember … I demand … When accompanied by the purple forget-me-not, these words sum up the Armenian experience of #Genocide. The as-yet-unacknowledged mass murder of 1.5 million #Armenians is a racial memory cemented into the collective national DNA of all living homeland and Diasporan #Armenians. The #Genocide memorial in Yerevan on the hill known […]

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