An Armenian Genocide Survivor Speaks (2 of 3)

This is the extraordinary testimony of the late Hagop H. Asadourian (1903-2003) recorded on April 24, 2003 in New York City on the occasion of the 88th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. He was 100 years old at the time.

Born in the village of Chomaklou in eastern Turkey, Hagop Asadourian was deported along with the rest of his village in 1918, but found refuge in an AGBU orphanage in Aleppo, Syria. He settled in the U.S. in 1920, where he became a successful businessman, singer, and author of poetry and fiction, including his novel, "The Grandchildren of Hovagim," which describes his childhood experiences.

The event featured here, at which Mr. Asadourian was an honored guest, was presented by the Naregatsi Art Institute (NAI) at the Cooper Union. Introducing Mr. Asadourian is NAI founder and director, Nareg Hartounian. The evening included performances by leading Armenian musicians and an exhibition of artists and photographers to commemorate the genocide through the spirit of art and cultural rebirth. This clip is excerpted from the DVD "Truth", which documents the event.

For more information about Mr. Asadourian's life and work, please visit www.naregatsi.org/Asadourian/

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[Gregory10000000000]

All too familiar horror stories so haunting still......Barbarism at its worst.Yes, Arabs did welcomed the Armenians and they survived as a result.Arabs too had suffered terribly under the Ottomon rule."Those who suffer, REMEMBER".

[cherrialbum]

Thanks again!!

[peyotemania]

JUST WHERE IS THE GENOCIDE ????HE IS TELLING STORIES OF DEPORTING ....WHERE IS SYSTEMATIC KILLINGS.....

TURKS HAD MURDERED BY MANY NATIONS...SO WE SHOULD CLAIM ALSO GENOCIDE...

NO FUCK IT....MY NATION IS NOT A CRYING WHORE....AND WHERE ARE THE STORIES OF HIS FATHERS WHO MURDERED TURKISH AND KURDISH VILLAGES....

THESE ARE ALLL STORIES..."HOOKER WITH A GOLDEN HEART"

[magicful21]

"We closed the roads and mountain passes that might serve as ways of escape for the Turks, and then proceeded in the work of extermination. Our troops surrounded village after village. Little resistance was offered. Our artillery knocked the huts into heaps of stones and dust, and when the villages became untenable and the inhabitants fled from them into the fields, bullets and bayonets completed the work." O. Appressian; Memoirs of an Armenian officer

watch?v=3P1RZ92Q-9g&feature=re­lated

[magicful21]

And what about the millions of Turks massacred by Armenians. Do you have any clips of those? No I don't think so, because the Imperialist bastards who egged on the Armenians were not interested dying Turks as they were subhuman Muslims! Go to Hell with your deeply racist and biased views of the world. The Jews didn't attacked Germans you muppet! Read the history and consult opposing views as well

[magicful21]

The Ottomans didn’t have the means to organise such a hugely complicated and logistically difficult manoeuvre. So it was inevitable that many people died during this what effectively turned into a death march. But the Ottomans were not in the mood to worry about this neither did they have the means to organise it. They were fighting a war of survival and the Armenians were passively and actively collaborating with the enemy. To them it had to be done as a matter of national security

[magicful21]

Armenians with their Imperialist allies lost the war but they want to win it in a different way by distorting the history. In 1980s I have met the survivors of Armenian genocide of Turks. 90 years old men cried like little kids telling their stories. Why weren't they being interviewed in any of these films mostly done in the Imperialist Western countries

[isguhi]

Ce récit est tout à fait conforme à ce que

racontait mon père, dans les villages arabes, les exilés ont été accueillis avec pitié, et même une femme arabe leur a apporté à manger. Mais il y a eu beaucoup de morts, de faim, de soif, de maladie...