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Simon Maghakyan on 24 Nov 2005
Dr. Kevorkian is dying
Life News reports on 21 November 2005, "The attorney for convicted assisted suicide crusader Jack Kevorkian has submitted his third request for Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm to pardon or commit his sentence. He says the jailed pathologist is in grave medical shape and should be allowed to end his sentence for killing a disabled man."
The paper goes ahead to remind, "Kevorkian was convicted in April 1999 of killing Thomas Youk, a Detroit-area man with Lou Gehrig's disease whose death was shown on the CBS television show '60 Minutes.' He argued the murder was a euthanasia or mercy killing, but was sentenced for 10 to 25 years in prison."
Dr. Kevorkian, known as Dr. Death, is the son of the survivors of the Armenian genocide. When he was once asked whether he did not feel sorry for "killing" people, he said that he was Armenian, and nobody would understand better what pain and suffering was than him.
Without doubt, Dr. Kevorkian will become a hero in a few years, when finally the American government realizes that assisting suicide is a choice; a tool to prevent human suffering. But, unfortunatelly, he will not learn that he was hero, because he is expected to die shortly.
Simon Maghakyan on 23 Nov 2005
Israel’s Chief Rabbi Remembers Armenian Genocide Victims
As Armenia Liberty reports on 22 November 2005, "Israel’s Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger referred to the 1915-1918 massacres of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey as genocide and prayed for its estimated 1.5 million victims at the end of a two-day visit to Armenia on Tuesday."
“Nobody can feel the pain of the Armenians more deeply than we Jews,” added the Rabbi.
Regnum News Agency quotes the Chief Rabbi saying, “as a representative of the clergy, I do recognize the fact of the genocide, and everything else depends on the political and international relations.”
Simon Maghakyan on 21 Nov 2005
Turkey says to Denmark, "Close down the &*%( TV!!!"
EuObserver reports on 18 November 2005, "[Turkish Prime Minister] Mr Erdogan walked out on Monday (14 November) over the presence of Danish-based Roj TV, which the Turkish government alleges is financed by the Kurdish rebel group PKK – a group which has been dubbed a terrorist organisation by the EU." The Turkish official has requested to shut down the Kurdish TV and blamed Anders Fogh Rasmussen in supporting terrorism.
Photo: Mr. Erdogan wondering, "Will dey cluz that syopid PKK terryorist allogation Kyordish TV dyawn?"
The article continues to say, "an investigation by the Danish media authorities and ministry of culture has ruled that Roj TV does not violate Danish law.
An ongoing police investigation to establish possible links between the TV channel and PKK, will be made official in the near future Danish police say.
Copenhagen-based Roj TV broadcasts programs for Kurds all over Europe and the Middle East and has an audience of 28 million people in 77 countries.
RoJ TV denies having connections with the PKK."
Well, it seems Turks are forgetting that Denmark is not Turkey, and shuting down everything around is not a European custom.
Simon Maghakyan on 19 Nov 2005
AZERI KARATE TEAM BANNED FOR A YEAR AFTER INCIDENT WITH ARMENIAN ATHLETES IN LIMASSOL
Gibrahayer Nicosia 15 November, 2005. After an incident with Armenian athletes, at the opening ceremony of the Fourth World Youth Karate Games that took place at The Palais Des Sport in Limassol, the National Karate Team of Azerbaijan has been banned for a year from participation in all official games of the World Karate Federation, a spokesman of the Cyprus Karate Federation told Gibrahayer today.
The World Karate Federation Committee that convened last weekend decided to ban the Azerbaijani Karate Team after one of its athletes provoked and soon after was involved in a scuffle with an Armenian athlete at the opening ceremony in Limassol. The Armenian athlete was rushed to the hospital with a broken tooth. Both teams were not allowed to participate in the opening ceremony.
The Armenian and the Azerbaijani teams have left Cyprus after the Games and the official one-year ban to the Azerbaijani National Karate team will be announced within the next couple of days.
More than 100 countries participated in the Games.
Simon Maghakyan on 17 Nov 2005
Belgian official gets accused for denial and perjury
As Azg reports on 17 November 2005, "On November 14, the first instance court of Belgium took a decision confirming that Emir Kir, state secretary of Brussels Capital Regional Government, is 'a liar, denialist and criminal.'"
Emir Kir, whose name assumes his origin is Turkish, got himself into trouble by starting legal action against "Mehmed Kyoksal and Pierre-Yves Lambert, authors of www.referendum.be website, who called him those names for not having the diploma he assured to have, for participating in an anti-Armenian rally, for denying the Armenian Genocide and falsifying expanses of election campaign."
Photo: Emir Kir helping a kid to dress up for an anti-Armenian rally.
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.
Guardian Unlimited © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2005
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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.
Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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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