Holdwater, the Turkish webmaster of the denialist www.tallarmeniantale.com hatesite*, is trying everything to keep up the attention (please don't attack me for making him happy).

Short on "documents" to prove that the Armenian Genocide never happened, Holdwater (also known as "Ilyas Botas") is now dehumanizing genocide scholars in, according to him, cartoon series called "Alice in Genocideland."

Below are the dehumanized Taner Akcam, first Turkish scholar to acknowledge the term "Armenian Genocide;" and Armenian scholars Richard Hovhannisian and Vahakn Dadrian, the world famous genocide studies professor. The Holdwaterian "masterpiece" is at http://www.tallarmeniantale.com/alice2.htm.

P.S. I will NOT please Holdwater by reporting on his pornographic "photo evidence" (photographs from various R rated movies) that the Armenian Genocide never happened. I do not find those funny nor appropriate for Blogian. The sacrilege and stupidity of genocide denial has no boundaries.

* www.tallarmeniantale.com is a hatesite for calling Armenians rats.

The photographic source of a WWI American poster to support the Armenian Genocide survivors may have been found.

Missak Kelechian announced finding the source in August of 2006.

The photograph has Near East Relief Star Logo and the side writing “Armenian Woman" on it, meaning the people in the poster are real survivors (to be victims?) of the Armenian Genocide.

Here are Kelechian's comparisons of the poster and the photograph:

1. Look at her head scarf band details!
2. The head angle look!
3. Her shirt and the design details!
4. Minor difference in the hands especially the fingers!
5. The skirt and its shades!
6. Look at the strapped baby. The baby’s cap is so real!
7. The poster’s back ground is a ruined house, while the real picture is some where most probably in Syria in an alley between two houses/walls. Look at the typical people looking mostly at the photographer! They seem to have shoes on their feet!
The whole world was, and still is, looking at the photographer instead of the victim!
But Armenians are looking to the Mother… and the child on her back…

Information about the poster can be found at http://snuffy.lib.umn.edu/image/srch/bin/D…amp;id=msp01021.

Thanks to Missak Kelechian and Fatma Gocek for the information.

A photo from Armenia's capital Yerevan, taken a few minutes ago and sent by my brother-in-law via e-mail, showing the "new city."

For those of you who have been out of Yerevan for even three years, like my situation, this photograph may be shocking. The world is changing.

A few weeks ago I received my pen pal Shahen Hovsepian’s “Cultural Genocide” (Tehran 2006, 171 pages) book/photo-album.

The book (in Armenian, English and Farsi) features several hundreds of photographs testifying to the destruction of Armenian monuments in Turkey as a result of the genocidal campaign to eliminate Turkey’s Armenian past.

Since I have researched the topic for three years now, most of the photographs were familiar.

Furthermore, I was surprised to see Shahen using many photographs from www.Hayastan.com’s “Culutral genocide” gallery section (which is not available in its old format now, since I, as Hayastan.com gallery’s moderator, have not updated it after Turkish hacker attacks), which ended up being the core of my “Cultural Genocide 2005” CD (I sent Shahen a copy of the CD but I guess never told him that I was the moderator of Hayastan.com’s gallery). Although I had spent more than two years on creating the gallery and the CD, neither of those photographs were taken by me. Thus, again we are facing the copyright issue that I had addressed in the CD, but not in the gallery. Hopefully, the photographers will not get very upset by Shahen’s book, since it is done for a good cause.

Shahen writes, “…we express our thanks to R.A.A. organization, Virtual Ani and Hayastan web pages… for delivering their photos for publishing in this book.”

Congratulations and many thanks to Shahen Hovsepian for publishing the very important photo-album. The destruction and neglect of Armenian monuments in Turkey is undeletable issue and much work, first of all awareness, needs to be done.

UPDATE: As a response to this entry, Shahen sent me a letter which elaborated on the copyright issue:

Dear Simon,

Thank you so much for introducing the Cultural
Genocide book in your web page and I hope it can be
useful.

There is more than 10 years which I am traveling to
East and West Armenia and taking many photos which
they have been used many times without asking my
authorization therefore copy right is very important
for me also.

In this regards when two years ago Sebouh srbazan
decided to publish such a book I sent many e-mails to
all web pages including Hayastan web page to receive
their authorization to use the photos in the book
which I informed by Hayastan that most of the photos
took by Baze [Hrair Khatcherian] therefore I found his e-mail and
contacted with him and received his positive answer to
use his photos.

[…]

With thanks and best wishes,

Shahen

Finally the flight I had so hoped for happened. I was in Glendale (LA) this weekend staying for non-school/career related purposes FIRST time in my entire life.

I didn't have time to visit many places around the area (and I was already in LA this spring), but still had the best weekend. My baby had made "tsitiki kat" (bird's milk) cake for me and I ended up brining half of it to Denver. I also saw my cousin Arman several hours before my flight and we checked out Glendale Community College (I had not seen it before). I also got some Jermuk – natural mineral water from Armenia- from Jons (John Berberian's chain grocery shop) and am enjoying it right now.

So the first thing I did in Glendale, after unpacking my bag at the motel, was turning on the TV set and finding three Armenian channels! The first program I watched, after the advertisements, was HASK on channel 31 I guess. Two gentlemen were speaking about one's responsibility, etc. I realized over and over again the lack of leadership and communicational techniques among Armenians.

(The Armenian Catholic Church right across Glendale Community College. My cousin said the stones for the church were brought from Armenia. No wonder people go to this church very often, it is a beauty)

From Harvest Gallery, where Arman had taken me to, I picked up a free copy of Armenian Arts magazine (Jul/Aug 2006). It featured an article by Ter Vazken, an Armenian priest from California whom I met in Denver once. Ter Vazken visited Rwanda lately and wrote about the experience at his blog, http://dervaz.blogspot.com/.

A powerful article (I could not find it online) that started many tears. It also features a picture from the Genocide museum in Rwanda that has info on and pictures of the "pioneers" – the Armenian genocide victims. Interestingly, Hasmig, a member of Journey for Humanity, had told me about this during last week (when I saw the six students again on Aug 26, 2006) and I got very surprised.

My brother is bothering me badly (I need to do some paperwork and help him with homework, and he also needs to check his e-mail to once again prove himself that he doesn’t get e-mails).

Happy Labor Day for those of you who live in the United States of America.

The Armenian students from Journey for Humanity arrived in Denver this morning. I knew Vahe from the Armenian National Conference in Washington D.C. (2004) and I had volunteered with Sargis for YerevanNights.com earlier this year. There are four more students. I invited them to my 20th birthday on Saturday.

http://armeniansforlebanon.com/

Blogian is back. No, things are not better in my life at all: even worse. But I realized that I should not have killed blogian just because I have the worst heartache ever. Blogian does not belong to me, it belongs to its readers, even to the one who broke my heart again and again.

It is raining in Littleton, yes, it is where I live. You might remember the Columbine High School shootings from 1998; I live 10 minutes away from that place in Colorado. It has been raining all day. It actually started yesterday, just the same time when my heart started to pour. It was raining in the morning too, even when I was marching in the Western Welcome Week parade for Heifer International.

I did not want to go to the parade, but I had promised my 8-year-old neighbor to take him to march with us. I would not make a 8-year-old kid to be sad just because I was not in the mood. He actually said he had the best time ever. I am glad he did, but I didn't indeed. Actually it was better for me to participate in the parade, although I had not slept all night. 6 a.m. in the morning I got a call. I thought it was my baby, but she had promised not to call ever again. Long story, very long. The caller was my good friend from Armenia, Lia. She was calling from Paris, where she is staying for a month-long student event. I am glad she called. She is a person I can share my heartache with.

(more pictures from the parade, and other events, at http://newpix.cjb.net/ – my new gallery)

It is still raining. I don't know how long it is going to continue to rain, but I hope not too long. Monday, the day after tomorrow, new life is starting: continuation of my political science courses at the University of Colorado and starting the assistant manager position of Colorado State Capitol's visitor services. Actually I will be out of the Capitol for the first hour and a half of my job. I will be meeting the Armenian students from Journey for Humanity who have an event at the City and County Denver building right across where I work. I don't know most of these guys, but I have seen one of them in Washington D.C. during an Armenian conference. (Speaking of Washington D.C. and Armenian conferences, I will be going to the ANCA Leadership Conference in D.C. in September. A good senior friend of mine already bought me the tickets.) Then I will escort them to the Armenian genocide memorial plague at the State Capitol (I had to get permission from the state patrol to take them to the memorial, since it is fenced due to construction).

I really hate for writing in this tone. Especially when I know some of my closest relatives read blogian. But I am tired of keeping my heartache to myself. After all, this is personal blog, and for an Armenian who lives in an isolated state in the USA, away from Armenia and Armenians, it is difficult to be *happy*.

My birthday is a week from today. I will become 20. I don't know what I will do on that day, but right now I feel like not wanting to do anything in this world.

At the end, I would like to thank those who encouraged me not to kill blogian, especially my friend Artyom from www.iararat.com and …her.

Blogian closes down for personal reasons. Sorry…

Alexander 'Godfather' Givoyed is killed, reports Arminfo.

I know Givoyev, an Assyrian-Armenian, as a vibrant, poorly-spoken "political activist," who claimed to be Armenia's largest 'Godfather:' he baptised hundreds of Armenian soldiers (those who were not baptised in the Armenian church). I am not sure if he knew the meaning of baptism, but I still considered him charismatic (despite being blatantly uneducated).

What I am really puzzled is the way Arminfo reports the murder. It calls Givoyev "WELL-KNOWN UNDERWORLD LEADER BY NICKNAME "'HAY-HOOY' " and says the Assyrian had ties with the Russian mafia. Givoyev seemed to consider himself a cool guy (he frequently mentioned ASALA – the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia – in his interviews, although there is no connection between them whatsoever). He called one of my senior friends in Armenia his "friend." When I asked the guy whether Givoyev was indeed his friend, he said, "Givoyev is not my friend; I have no respect for him."

Anyhow, I kind of felt sorry for Givoyev being killed. He was very provokative and entertaining. I don't really know much about his mafia past, but if he deserves the death, let it be so.

UPDATE: A better media coverage at http://www.armenialiberty.org/armeniarepor…6C429839C36.ASP.