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    KARABAKH PEOPLE'S REVOLT PREVENTED ANOTHER GENOCIDE OF ARMENIAN
    POPULATION

    Azg/arm
    2 Feb 05

    The speech of Artashes Geghamian, chairman of the National Unity
    Party, delivered at the PACE sitting on January 27 dealt with the
    report of Mats Einarsson (United Left).

    Mr. President and dear colleagues,

    It is very symbolic that the discussion of creating a European center
    for commemoration of the victims of ethnic cleansing is going on in
    current year, the year that the Armenians commemorate the 90th
    anniversary of Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey. The political and
    intellectual elite of the Armenian nation, more than 600 people,
    living in Constantinople was arrested on the night of April 24,
    1915. That put the beginning to annihilation of 1.5 million Armenians
    and their exodus throughout the world. That was the time when Bruno
    Jasenski wrote one of the pages of his "Plot of the
    Indifferent". Europe kept silent. And that wasn't an accident that
    after a quarter of a century, in the August of 1939, Hitler stated in
    his speech held for the commanders of his troops the following: "I
    ordered my "Dead Heads" detachments to annihilate all the men, women
    and children speaking Polish and having Polish origin. Only this will
    help us conquer the vital territories we need. Who, after all, speaks
    todayof the annihilation of the Armenians?" Later, the Jews shared the
    tragic fate of the Polish people. Holocaust took place.

    Ethnic cleanings were resumed in the late 80s and early 90s, when
    hundreds, thousands of Armenians were massacred in Sumgait, Baku,
    Kirovabad and Dashqes. Over 450 thousand of Armenians had to flee
    from Soviet Azerbaijan. The Armenians of Nagorno Karabakh could
    survive only after many people perishedas heroes in the war.

    Unfortunately, two days ago, Mr. Mercan, our Turkish colleague, was
    blaming in his speech the Karabakh people that they averted the danger
    of being killed in the genocide. His draw to make parallels between
    the Nagorno Karabakh issue and the cases of separatism in some of the
    European countries are doomed to failure. These cases of separatism
    are always strictly criticized by the majority of the population of
    these very European countries.

    In fact, Mr. Mercan called for the Belgians, the French, the English,
    the Polish, the Russian and Italian to save themselves from
    themselves. It is aluck that Canada isn't represented in the CE,
    otherwise the Turks would never forgive this country for the
    opportunity it gave to the people of Quebec todecide their future fate
    through a referendum. Mercan has preserved the traditionsof the
    Byzantine notorious policy. It seems that the Ottomans have learned
    some lessons after burning Constantinople and killing its residents in
    1453. Let's be just and say that they adopted not the best things from
    the Byzantine civilization. We wonder why our Turkish colleague didn't
    mention the July events of 1974, when the Turkish troops invaded
    Cyprus and occupied 40 percent of this independent state's
    territory. The 82 percent of Cyprus population are the Greeks. The
    Armenians and the Maronits live there, too. He didn't mention that
    thousands of Cyprus Greeks were killed as a result of Turkey's attack,
    while over 200 thousand Christian residents of Cyprus had to leave
    their homes and became refugees in their own country.

    I came to remind the following verses from the Bible: "Why do you see
    the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice log that is
    in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own
    eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your
    brother's eye"(Mathew, 7:3-4).

    We should begin the establishment of the European center for the
    victims of ethnic cleansings by restoring our own historic memory. In
    "Mea Culpa" confession of 2000 Pope John Paul II asked forgiveness
    from God and the Humanity for the activities the Catholic Church
    carried out against the heretics and free-minded people, for the
    intolerance, for the religious wars and the expeditions of the
    crusaders, as well as the hostility and mistrust that many Christians
    feel against the Jews.

    I think that before establishing the European Center, the PACE should
    make "Mea Culpa" statement-confession, as the political figures and
    not the people are guilty for all the victims of ethnic cleansings in
    Europe. While the people are waiting for the penance of the political
    figures, of our penance.

    By Artashes Geghamian, Strasburg, January 27, 2005
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