Letters to Al Jazeera International
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- -1/ Thursday, January 11, 2007 9:49 AM >> Riz KHAN
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- Mr Riz KHAN : Your interview of Mr Robert Satloff, author of the book "Among the Righteous"
AL JAZEERA
Dear Sir,
I am a researcher in Armenology.
Regularly I try to look at your interviews which are so interesting. Yesterday I saw your interview of Mr Robert Satloff about the Genocide of the Jews by the Nazis and it's denial.
Mr Satloff said that the specifity of the Shoah comparing to other past or present genocides was the fact that the scientific word "genocide" was created because of this mass murder.
I would like to acknowledge you that Rafael Lemkin thought of that word after studying "the trial of Talaat Pasha in 1921 in Berlin which is very instructive." : armeniapedia.org/
In the Armenian language, the Armenian Genocide was called "Yeghern" (the catastrophe) and then after 1948 "Tseghaspanoutyoun" (Murder of the race) : Khatchig Mouradian in The Armenian Weekly september 23, 2006. I recall that the denial of the Armenian Genocide by Turkey is specific on being a STATE DENIAL using its administration and diplomatic services for this purpose with a State budget.
Ending my letter, I would like to add that a personnal testimony from my mother who was in Paris during the nazi occupation of France. She several times told me that the Armenian church used to give Christian Baptism Certificates to jewish families who asked to have in order to show these certificates to the german bureaucraty in Paris. I also take the opportunity to recommend you the following video called "Germany and the Secret Genocide". This video of very good quality and made in America, shows the complicity of Germany in the Armenian Genocide during WWI and its consequences for the following genocide during WWII.
Sincerely yours with my best regards from Paris.
Nil Agopoff
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Robert Satloff, executive director of The Washington Institute, since 1993 - Google on "Robert Satloff" - |
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