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Archive for November, 2005
Simon Maghakyan on 17 Nov 2005
October 17 2005. Artyom Rustamyan, currently homeless and in the hospital, is looking for his sons who both left him to go to Russia and America. AZG has an article in Armenian, aiming to find the children of the poor man. If anybody can help with information, contact [email protected].
Photo: Artyom Rustamyan in the hospital
Simon Maghakyan on 12 Nov 2005
'Racist' Russian TV advert investigated
Tom Parfitt in Moscow Thursday November 10, 2005 The Guardian
Russian prosecutors are investigating a TV advert produced by a Kremlin-linked political party which suggests that dark-skinned Caucasians should be purged from Moscow's streets. The ad was produced by Rodina, an ultra-nationalist party set up by President Vladimir Putin's allies two years ago to leach votes from the Communist party.
In the advert two party members approach a small group of swarthy men who are eating melon in a park. The rinds that the men discard foul the wheels of a pram pushed by a slavic-looking Russian woman. The Rodina leader, Dmitry Rogozin, demands the men – who are played by actors – pick up their litter, but he receives no reply. His sidekick then claps a hand on the shoulder of one man and asks, "Do you understand Russian?" Finally, a slogan appears on the screen saying: "Let's clean our city of rubbish!"
In the advert two party members approach a small group of swarthy men who are eating melon in a park. The rinds that the men discard foul the wheels of a pram pushed by a slavic-looking Russian woman. The Rodina leader, Dmitry Rogozin, demands the men – who are played by actors – pick up their litter, but he receives no reply. His sidekick then claps a hand on the shoulder of one man and asks, "Do you understand Russian?" Finally, a slogan appears on the screen saying: "Let's clean our city of rubbish!"
The advert plays on strong anti-immigrant feeling in the capital, ahead of city parliament elections next month. Melon sellers in Moscow are often from Azerbaijan or Russia's southern republics.
The Moscow prosecutor's office said yesterday it was launching an investigation into whether the advert incited violence against ethnic minorities.
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Nov 12 2005, 03:10
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Monument to Russian-Armenian Friendship Desecrated in Budennovsk for Third Time
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The monument to the Fathers -Founders of the town of Saint Cross has been for the third time this year desecrated in the town of Budennovsk of Stavropol region of Russia, Yerkramas, the newspaper of Armenians of Russia reported. This time the vandals pulled down and broke the Khachkar. The Armenian community and the Armenian Church are shocked by such vandalism. According to chairman of the town community Petros Mkrtchyan, the act was dated to the day of police. He said it’s not the first case when the law enforcers treated the barbarism as children’s tricks or hooliganism. “The Armenian community of the town is not going to reconstruct the Khachkar, is there are forces preferring to see not the monument but the ruins, let it be ruins,” Petros Mkrtchyan added. Priest of the Armenian Church Ter Arsen Budaghyan shares this opinion.
To remind, the opening ceremony of the memorial to the Fathers – Founders of the town of Saint Cross took place October 17, 2004. The memorial is constituted of an 8-meter high arch, a Khachrar (cross stone) and a composition of stones. The bell mounted under the arch has gathered the flock of the Armenian Church for many years. For the first time the vandals desecrated the monument in February 2005. Another act of vandalism was committed in July 2005. Lanterns were broken, the Khachkar was damaged with fragments of concrete and dead body of a cat was thrown under the arch.
The experts think the incident can be a consequence of anti-Caucasian spirits on the whole or an act committed by satanists. There is also opinion that the vandals pursue the objective to tense the national relations in the town, since the complex to the Fathers – Founders is perceived as the monument to the Russia-Armenian Friendship.
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Simon Maghakyan on 11 Nov 2005
Armenia gets Bronze medal
11 November 2005: Armenia placed third in Chess World championship that took place in Israel. AZG Daily has an article in Armenian on the championship. Russia won the the first place; and China (who had been defeated by the Armenian team), got the silver medal.
This is the 3rd time Armenia is getting bronze in Chess Int'l championship.
Below is the list of the final results from the Website of the World Chess Federation.
Final Standings Rank Team
Game Points Win Draw Loss Match Points 1st Russia 22 8 0 0 8 2nd China 21.5 6 0 2 6 3rd Armenia 18.5 4 3 1 5.5 4 Ukraine 17.5 4 1 3 4.5 5 USA 16.5 3 2 3 3 6 Israel 14.5 2 1 5 2.5 7 Georgia 13.5 2 1 5 2.5 8 Cuba 13 1 3 4 2.5 9 China Women 7 0 1 7 0.5
To learn more about the Armenian team, visit the official website of the World Team Chess Championship.
Simon Maghakyan on 10 Nov 2005
ABC News
Archeologists Find Ancient Burial Mounds
Armenian Archeologists Unearth 3rd Millennium B.C. Site
AP
YEREVAN, Armenia Nov 9, 2005 — Archeologists said Wednesday they have unearthed burial mounds dating back to the third millennium B.C. which they believe contain remains and trinkets from ancient Aryan nomads.
Photo: Armenia is considered the homeland of the Indo-European languages according to the thesis suggested in the 1980s. (-Nemesis)
Historian Hakob Simonian said Wednesday that the four mounds were among 30 discovered about 35 miles west of the Armenian capital Yerevan, containing beads made of agate, carnelian and as well as the remains of what appears to be a man, aged 50-55.
Also found were remains of domesticated horses and glazed pottery appearing to show chariots, Simonian said.
The Aryans, who later became known as Persians, were largely grassland nomads who settled in what is today Iran and eventually in parts of India.
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Simon Maghakyan on 10 Nov 2005
Another dog from Armenia got 1.5 sentence for forcing an Armenian woman to prostitution. The same happened to dog anahit, who after escaping back to Dubai got killed in a car accident. Let's wait for the natural punishment of this animal.
A Light Sentence for Selling a Human Being
[November 7, 2005]
“I found out in Dubai that I wouldn't be working in a store, I'd be a prostitute instead. On Marine's orders, I visited several clients of different nationalities in the Al Harmud Hotel and had sex with them. I was in an impossible situation, because Marine had my passport, I didn't know anyone in Dubai, didn't know the language, and didn't have any money to survive. Since I didn't know the language, Marine would talk to the clients instead and tell me how long I had to stay with a client and how much he had to pay me. I would then give all the money to Marine,” A., who was a prostitute under Marine's control from April 7 to August 20, 2003, told the police.
On July 20 th Yerevan's Court of First Instance of the Kentron and Nork Marash Districts, Judge Zhora Vardanyan presiding, sentenced Marine Poghosyan to one year and six months in prison, just half of the three-year sentence requested by the Prosecutor general's Office in accordance with legislation regarding human trafficking (Armenian Criminal Code, Article 132, Paragraph 1).
In 2001, with the aim of providing for her young daughter, Marine Poghosyan went to Dubai to work for her cousin Armine Poghosyan, a prostitute there. Afterwards, she decided to lure good-looking Armenian girls to Dubai with the promise of non-existent jobs, force them into prostitution, and make a lot of money off them. She told her sister's husband Vardan Mikayelyan, who sold potatoes in the Gyumri market, to see if he could find anyone who wanted a job as a maid or nanny. Mikayelyan passed the word on to Maro, a coffee seller. Maro's daughter A. agreed to go to Dubai. “I was divorced from my husband and had a daughter to take care of. Our situation was desperate and I agreed to go to Dubai to work in a store. I faxed my passport details to Marine, and went thinking I was going to work in a store,” the 26-year-old wrote in her statement. Marine met A. in Dubai and took her to a hotel. Marine took A.'s passport, explaining that she had to show it to the hotel administrator. She never returned it. Instead she demanded that A. work as a prostitute until she could pay back the $7,000 that Marine had spent to get her to Dubai.
“I kept complaining that she had tricked me and I wanted my passport back, but she wouldn't give it to me, saying I had to pay her back. In those five months she only sent $400 to my mother, although I earned around $5,000,” A. said. In July 2005, when Marine was out of the hotel A. called her mother and told her what had happened. A's mother went to Vardan's house and demanded the immediate return of her daughter. At Vardan's request, Marine send A. back to Armenia. “After my mother went to Vardan, I worked for ten more days to make money for the ticket and then Marine sent me to Armenia, with only $10. I came to Armenia but didn't go to the police, because I was ashamed of what I had done in Dubai,” A. told the prosecutor.
In April 2005, when Marine Poghosyan was in Armenia, A's mother persuaded her daughter to go to police. Although A. claims she earned around $5,000 in Dubai, she never demanded any of that money back during the trial.
During the investigation Marine Poghosyan confessed that she had taken advantage of A. and forced her into prostitution, and she pleaded guilty at her trial.
Armen Boshnagyan, senior prosecutor for the Prosecutor General's Department of Anti-trafficking and Illegal Immigration, recommended that the defendant be sentenced to three years in prison.
The court, taking into account that Marine Poghosyan had confessed and expressed remorse, had no prior convictions, and was the mother of a young child, sentenced her to one year and six months.
Samvel Poghosyan
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Simon Maghakyan on 10 Nov 2005
U.A.E.-um gtnvogh Hayastanciner: HETQ.am websiteh argelvats e dzez mot; sakayn aystegh karogh eq kardal vorosh hodvatsner ayd saytic: Ete duq zoh eq strkutyan ev chgiteq inch anel, zangahareq [b](374 10) 800 80 801 herakhosahamrov: Ete ays grvats@ kartacox@ sutinerneric mekn e, asem vor duq shutov patjvelu eq: [/b]
HETQ FORBIDDEN IN UAE
For a long time already the website of Hetq magazine is not accessible in the United Arab Emirates. When trying to open the site one can see the following lines, "We bring our apologies but the site you are going to open has been blocked, as its contents conflicts with the religious, cultural, political and moral values of the UAE. Why doesn't Hetq meet the above mentioned values? The fact is that since June, 2005 Hetq has published the results of the journalist investigation on the sale of women in the country. The journalists described the ways the women from Armenian towns and villages found themselves in the United Arab Emirates and were subjected to sexual exploitation. Photos and names were published. The journalists found out that Dubai policemen and members of the migration services are involved in these criminal activities. The staff of Hetq is convinced that the sale of women and their exploitation cannot be viewed as "religious, cultural, political and moral values. The reporter met with residents of Dubai and other cities, who unanimously stated that their religion condemns sale of people and sexual exploitation.
"We think that the local inhabitants, who helped the women to return to the homeland, should know about the fate of these people.
We appeal to the UAE authorities to raise the taboo off the Hetq website and appeal to international organizations to urge the UAE leadership not to "clear" internet from critical articles about their country', the statement issued by Hetq staff says.
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Simon Maghakyan on 06 Nov 2005
Արտասահմանում անելանելի վիճակում գտնվող Հայաստանի քաղաքացիների համար
Otar erkrnerum anelani vichakum gtnvogh Hayastanciner zangahareq ays hamarnerov
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The person below is the boss of the Armenian sex trade, Asad, who knows little Western Armenian because he is from Syria. Hetq.am has an article on Asad and the other criminals. Read here.
Simon Maghakyan on 03 Nov 2005
HETQ has been investigating the human trafficking which is one of the most important and most ignored problems in Armenia. By publishing the pictures of these Armenian dogs (pimps), I hope to promote trafficking awareness in Armenian website communities, so at least we know about the dogs and find ways to struggle against them.
Արտասահմանում անելանելի վիճակում գտնվող Հայաստանի քաղաքացիների համար
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The picture below is a teenage Armenian kid, forced to prostitution in Dubai…………
The picture below is from Armenian Liberty and shows a dog (pimp) on the left, and two unprotected Armenian girls who have been lied and forced to prostitution in Dubai. Where are you God?…….
Another pimp in the picture below.
21-year-old Armenian virgin was lied and taken to Dubai for prostitution (she was told she was going to Greece to work to send money to her poor Mom). When she found out the reality, she said she would kill herself. The virgin was sold to the Arabs $ for 20,000. More info
here.
The map of the Armenian sex trade network, completed by Hetq.am
Simon Maghakyan on 03 Nov 2005
The "cruelist pimp in Dubai" gets only one year in an Armenian court. The dog, lusine hakobyan, had ruined lives of many Armenian women, including underage teenagers. Targeting poor and unprotected families without a man in the house, dogs like lusine hakobyan get only one year in jail. Her "partner" anahit paid off the court and went back to Dubai…. and dies as a result of a car accident. When is this dog going to die?
No Payback for the Pimp
[July 11-18, 2005]
Photo: Aisha, Dubai's cruelist pimp from Armenia still needs justice of death. [Nemesis]
On July 8, the court completed its review of the case against well-known Dubai pimp Aisha, whose real name is Lusine Hakobyan. (See Also “ Another pimp in Court”). Judge Vazgen Lalayan of the Court of First Instance of Yerevan’s Nork Marash and Kentron Districts sentenced Aisha to a one-year probation. She is now free to get back to business.
Hakobyan had been charged by the Office of the Prosecutor General of the Republic of Armenia with “organizing pimping” in violation of Article 262 of the Armenian Criminal Code. Senior Prosecutor Armen Boshnagyan of the agency’s Department of Trafficking and Illegal Migration, seem to believe that the case against Hakobyan was strong. Taking into account Aisha’s statement’s during the investigation and the accounts of witnesses, Boshnagyan requested that, “Lusine Hakobyan be proven guilty according to the paragraph 1 of 262 Article of Armenian Criminal Code and be sentenced to 2 years in prison.” But he continued, “ Taking into account her responsibility and other mitigating factors she should no be imprisoned, according to Article 70 of the Armenian Criminal Code. Instead, a one year probationary period should be applied and her actions should be monitored by a local police institution.”
Photo: Dubai's biggest dog. Where is the Nemesis of our days? Are the crimes committed by this dog better than Talaat's?
Boshnagyan listed several reasons for seeking the lighter sentence. He said the defendant was the mother of a young child, had never been arrested before, and had not resisted arrest. Aisha’s attorney Hrach Isajanyan added several others, explaining that Aisha had confessed and expressed regret for her crimes, and had voluntarily surrendered to the Armenian police. Isajanyan added that her mother was ill. (During the first session of the court, however, Judge Lalayan noted that no document had been presented to prove that Aisha’s mother was sick, none has been presented since.) The defense lawyer claimed that even the probation sought by the prosecution was too harsh. “The proposed sentence is too strict because she has an underage child and a sick mother. She cannot be under the control of the police and she cannot check with police every 15 days. I think there should be a fine, instead, ” Isajanyan suggested.
On behalf of the Republic of Armenia , Judge Lalayan sentenced the pimp, who had confessed to “bossing” several prostitutes, to only one year of probation, during which time she is required to check in with the police 24 times. Aisha, who is known as the cruelest pimp in Dubai, said, “I feel very bad for the things I did. I ask you to forgive me. I promise this won’t happen again.”
Aghavni Eghiazaryan
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Simon Maghakyan on 01 Nov 2005
"group of small boys and girls were stripped naked and hosed down with what was described as scalding hot water. When one of the children complained, the attendant was shown hitting him on the head with a fist-sized stone" – reports Turkish journalist Amberin Zaman on 28 October 2005 about Turkish abuses of orphans.
Nemesis News Editorial, 31 October 2005:
While many argue that Hitler and other Nazis had learned various genocidal techniques from the Turkish perpetrators of the Armenian genocide ( 1915-1923 ), the opposite statement might be true as much.
Photo: Turkish child in a government-sponsored hospital
As The New York Times reports on 29 September 2005, mentally ill citizens are being tortured and starved in government-funded Turkish hospitals and orphanages. Through electroshock and starvation, many disabled children have died, though exact numbers are not known. The director of a human rights group, Eric Rosenthal, is quoted as saying that visitors to the Turkish mental health hospitals “saw children who were essentially abandoned, starving, ties down to their beds.” The use of the electroshock without the use of anesthesia, which prevents patients from suffering, is used as punishment against the disabled, as the Turkish doctors explain.
In the last 90 years, millions of people have been “punished” to death in Turkey for not being a Turk, Muslim or a “good” citizen. The idea of a “pure” Turkish nation has led Turkish politicians to change the names of 12,000 geographic names, destroy thousands of Christian monuments and even rename scientific names of animals.
The question that arises is whether the torture and starvation of disabled people in Turkey is done by genocidal intent to make the nation more “pure.” The historic precedent, in any case, shows that the mentally ill have been victims of racist governments, such as the case of the genocide of the disabled by Nazi Germany.
Photo: Gypsy children, victims of medical experiments at Auschwitz.
Interestingly, one of the techniques of Nazi physicians of killing the disabled was also starvation. The Nazi murderers called the ill “useless eaters.” While Hitler ordered the destruction of the “useless eaters” in a careful way, euphemistically instructing that “persons…who are incurable…be accorded a mercy death,” Turkish doctors do not even bother to find medical arguments for their abuses.
Human rights activists have not been permitted to “see the worst wards.” Could there be something worse than ill children being electrified to death? In Turkey, perhaps.
Thanks God, Turkey decided to investigate the abuses. As Amberin Zaman writes on Oct 28 2005 , "[o]n Thursday, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan called the actions 'a crime against humanity' and vowed that 'those who are responsible will be punished.' Hope the criminals will be punished, but it seems Turkish torture of orphans has a long history and only international concern brought attention.
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