Armenia Genocide - "Song of the Homeless" by Isabel Bayrakdarian

"Andouni" (Homeless) composed by Komitas Vardapet (1869-1935), a composer, musicologist and the founder of modern Armenian classic music. Komitas's life was spared through the intervention of a group of influential friends during the Armenian Genocide in 1915, but he lived to see everyone he loved to die in the Genocide. Komitas had never recovered from the emotional shock. He died in a psychiatric mental institute in Paris.
http://www.komitas.am/eng/index_eng.php

Isabel Bayrakdarian, a world-renowned Lebanon-born Armenian-Canadian soprano, and The Komitas String Quartet.
http://www.bayrakdarian.com

Every year on April 24, Armenians gather at "Tsitsernakaberd Genocide Memorial" at Yerevan, Armenia to remember the victims of the 1915 Armenian Genocide that took place in the Ottoman Empire carried out by the Turkish government. "Tsitsernakaberd" (Ծիծեռնակաբերդ) means "Fortress of Small Swallows." There are also many memorials dedicated to Armenian genocide in other countries, that including more than 30 such memorials in France alone.

The "Tsitsernakaberd Genocide Memorial" consists of a 100-meter wall with names of towns and villages where massacres are known to have taken place, a 44-meter stele that symbolizes the national rebirth of Armenians, 12 slabs that are positioned in a circle, representing 12 lost provinces in present day Turkey. In the center of the circle, in depth of 1.5 meters, there is an eternal flame, and an underground circular museum at the other end of the Memorial park.

There are 22 nations, including France, Germany, Russia and Canada, have officially recognized Armenian Genocide committed in the Ottoman Empire. French National Assemby passed the bill criminalizing the Armenian Genocide denial. The French bill anticipates 5-year-imprisonment and a 45.000-euro-fine for any person who denies the Armenian Genocide. Russia passes a similar bill. There are 42 out of 50 states legislators in United States have recognized Armenia Genocide.

UN's Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG) that adopted in 1948 and came into effect in 1951. Out of five permanent members of UN Security Council, CHINA and FRANCE ratified the treaty immediately. RUSSIA ratified in 1954. UK did that in 1970. After 40 years later in 1988, US finally ratified it but with proviso that no genocide could brought against US. US vetoed the charge of genocide brought against it by Yugoslavia on the 1999 Kosovo War.

US refused to join the 104-nation member International Criminal Court in Hague, Netherlands. US was one of the only 7 nations to vote against it in 1998, and withdraw from it in 2002 on the ground that the International Criminal Court may conduct politically motivated investigations and prosecutions of U.S. military and political officials and personnel. More information Google or Wikipedia "US International Criminal Court."

More information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_genocide
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_on_the_Prevention..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Criminal_Court

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[jackelliston]

@VictorLepanto Shut up idiot.

[jackelliston]

@VictorLepanto watch?v=STX6-vdiVeM

[Varangian1915]

Lusnag gisher, bolorovin, koun chounim.

Inz desnal, gardzoumeh teh, doun chounim vay, doun chounim.

[inachu]

jews do it so why not the french? Next we need a law against jews who try to deny the many millions of christians that the jews killed in russia. it was all genocide and jews joke about it because tehy know more christians died by jew hands than by hitler hands. genocide has no time limit to deny.

[PersianPaladin]

Stop the race hate.

[Maxaram]

this is my natoions !

[SrbijaZaMene]

@melitic

You're right.If Armenians lost the battle of Sardapabad (modern Armavir), nothing would have left of Armenians.The Turks would have killed all the Armenians in modern day Armenia.

[kamberk]

bickering over the word "Genocide" is trivial, what happened to Armenians during 1915 is simply tragic. Call it massacre, call it slaughter or butchery, this is about the annihilation of a race and culture that is 5000 years old. Reminiscing solemnly with reverence is only human.

[RussellK9]

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[fantozzio]

бнаружен многостраничный рапорт царского генерала, начальника Генштаба Русской Кавказской армии Леонида Болховитинова от 11 декабря 1915 года. Этот документ помогает разоблачить нынешние армянские претензии на мнимый "геноцид многострадального народа". 65-страничный рапорт обнаружил турецкий историк Мехмет Перинджек и не где-нибудь, а в фондах Российского государственного военно-исторического архива (расположен в подмосковном Подольске). Об этом сообщает турецкая газет "Хурриет".

[melitic]

I thought that turkish people did try to invade and conquer ALL of Armenians after the 3 year "ethnic cleansing/genocide" within its own territory. This national anhiliation was stopped by Armenians in the Battle of Sardapabad, 40 kilometers from the capital city in 1918. Am I wrong here?