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Can you recommend any blogs dedicated to posting art by Armenian artists, especially paintings?

Nothing comes to my mind other than official instagram of National gallery of Armenia and armenian_women_artists.

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I’m an American descendant of Genocide survivors & have always tried to educate those around me about the Genocide and Armenian culture, bc those topics are totally lacking from American public schools and general cultural awareness. Even knowing how things stand here, I was so disheartened and angry yesterday seeing many, many American non-Armenians only share anything about the Genocide yesterday if it could be used to make a point about other current atrocities (like Gaza), including members of many different minority groups with their own histories of trauma that know how painful it is when that history is only wielded by others for the sake of making a political point. To clarify, I am not bothered by people making connections or statements of solidarity with Armenians based on their own history, that is important and meaningful, but there is a difference between that and people only bothering to mention the Genocide and our suffering if they can use it as a rhetorical tool to serve their own agenda. I know it’s how the world works, but I’m just very very tired.

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Armenian rug from Van, ca 1900.

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hello, i just wanted to say, as someone whose grandfather was Armenian (i'm Polish), i'm so thankful for your blog and speaking up. it seems like a lot of people forget about Armenia. thank you <3

Ty too<3

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What part of "Do not discourse on this post" is not understandable to you? May I ask?

Please don't forget Armenians

Today is Armenian genocide remembrance day. On april 24, 1915 started mass deportations of hundreds of Armenian intelectuals and community leaders, who were (most of the time) eventually killed. Armenian women and children were systematically r//ed and forcibly converted into islam. There were more than 2 milion Armenians in ottoman empire prior to ww1, 1,5 milion of them were viciously killed. Three millennia of Armenian civilaziation in eastern Anatolis was fully destroyed. Turkey today refuses to acknowledge genocides of christian minorities in early 20th century.

Do you know that mass ethnic cleansing of Armenians in ottoman empire inspired Lemkin to coin the term 'genocide'?

Last year in september azerbaijan allied with turkey initiated a war against Armenia. More that 5000 Armenians were murdered, thousands of Armenia families had to live their ancestrial land to not get murdered. There are hundreds of vids on internet where armenian p.o.w.s are tortured. Recently azerbaijan opened a "museum" displayind dead or dying Armenians and kids were allowed to visit it.

Please educate yourself on Armenian genocide. You can also donate here to help Armenia. Thanks for reading!!

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I don't know what to answer or what kind of answer you expect from me (if you expect at all.) But could you please make a separate post about your experience. I'm only comfortable with Armenians adding to this post. Thanks

Please don't forget Armenians

Today is Armenian genocide remembrance day. On april 24, 1915 started mass deportations of hundreds of Armenian intelectuals and community leaders, who were (most of the time) eventually killed. Armenian women and children were systematically r//ed and forcibly converted into islam. There were more than 2 milion Armenians in ottoman empire prior to ww1, 1,5 milion of them were viciously killed. Three millennia of Armenian civilaziation in eastern Anatolis was fully destroyed. Turkey today refuses to acknowledge genocides of christian minorities in early 20th century.

Do you know that mass ethnic cleansing of Armenians in ottoman empire inspired Lemkin to coin the term 'genocide'?

Last year in september azerbaijan allied with turkey initiated a war against Armenia. More that 5000 Armenians were murdered, thousands of Armenia families had to live their ancestrial land to not get murdered. There are hundreds of vids on internet where armenian p.o.w.s are tortured. Recently azerbaijan opened a "museum" displayind dead or dying Armenians and kids were allowed to visit it.

Please educate yourself on Armenian genocide. You can also donate here to help Armenia. Thanks for reading!!

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"The Dance", Siamanto (translated by Peter Balakian)

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Armenian refugees on their way from Van to Yerevan province. 1916. Russian Ethnographic Museum.

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"Grandma's Tattoos" (2011) is a documentary film by Suzanne Khardalian. The filmmaker goes on a journey to investigate her family's history and reveal the fates of thousands of Armenian women and girls, who survived the 1915 Armenian Genocide but were forced into prostitution by their captors.

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Excerpt from Soviet-Armenian film Nahapet Նահապետ (1977) directed by Henrik Malyan. Based on a novel by Hrachya Kochar, the film depicts the Armenian genocide of 1915. Nahapet is a survivor who tries to rebuild his life after the tragic loss of his family. The scene is accompanied with Armenian folk song “Dle Yaman” Դլե Յաման, which became a hymn of the genocide, here it is sung by Melania Abovian. 

One of the recurring scenes in the film involves scores of red apples falling from a tree, rolling into a river, and floating en masse downstream. The scene is a painful symbolic reminder of the multitude of Armenian bodies thrown into the Euphrates by the Young Turk regime during the genocide. (x)

An apple tree on the lakeshore, with countless red fruits rolling down towards the blue water, is how Malyan, the ‘lyricist’ of Armenian cinema, pictures the huge loss sustained by his nation. Yet like all true metaphors, this image is multi-semantic and means not only loss but continuation, the prospect of reaching the shore one day. […] ‘salvation’ and ‘revival’ of the apple tree symbolize the rebirth of a massacred nation. (x)

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"Mayrig" (Mother), Henri Verneuil (translated by metamorphesque)

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Watercolor of Armenian refugee girl, signed "S. Katchadourian Erivan 1919".

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“A young Armenian girl puts roses near skulls of Armenian nationals, victims of the 1915 genocide, inside a church in Antelias, north of Beirut.”

Photographed by Marwan Naamani.

24 April 2007.

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My post about Armenian genocide got reblogged with tags relating to genocide in Gaza. Even tho i didn't mention it in the post AT ALL. like did you even read it?

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“The dehumanization of the Armenians was furthered by the fact that so many of the rapes were perpetrated in public, indeed in many instances in front of family members. Survivors confirm that rape or threat of rape thus functioned as a means of intimidation throughout the Genocide. A female survivor for Kighi by Erzurum relates: “It used to be said that if we harmed the gendarmes, then others would come and harm our women. We were not the ones who were afraid, only the men in our group were. They used to say if they did something to a Turkish gendarme, they would only be hurting their own women.” Rape also constituted a threat hanging over the heads of those women who escaped the deportations or entrusted themselves to rescuers. Five informants in the [Donald E. and Lorna Touryan] Miller interviews [from which were written “Survivors: An Oral History of the Armenian Genocide] speak of rapes that occurred outside the context of the deportations. Two of them refer to sexual attacks on groups of women traveling unaccompanied, while two others report rape or attempted rape of women or girls entrusting themselves to Turkish "protectors.” One other informant implies that a gendarme raped an escaped women in his charge while returning her to the deportations. Beyond sexual abuse, female deportees were particularly vulnerable to other forms of physical violence. According to some, these included horrible medical “experiments.” The theft of clothing also represented an assault on women’s bodily integrity and creased victims’ chances of survival during the hardships of the deportations. In particular, the nakedness of female deportees contributed to their dehumanization in the eyes of the general population; as one foreign observer recounted: “Farther on, all the survivors…were entirely stripped of their clothing…. They were brought into Aleppo the last few miles in third-class railway carriages, herded together like so many animals. When the doors of the carriages were opened, they were jeered at by the populace for their nakedness.””

— Katherine Derderian, “Common Fate, Different Experience: Gender-Specific Aspects of the Armenian Genocide, 1915-1917”

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“There have been various scholarly efforts to explain the function of rape and sexual violence in group conflicts. Most agree that rape, in both individual and collective contexts, is not a sexual act but an exercise of the perpetrator’s power over the victim. Scholars have argued that rape may demonstrate the perpetrators’ control over a subordinate group by violating the personal integrity of its women, or may create solidarity through complicity among male perpetrators. Sexual violence is also understood to dehumanize the victims, thereby facilitating the implementation of genocide. Sexual intimidation and abuse were used to dampen Armenian resistance, thus expressing and bolstering Ottoman power. Early in the Genocide sexual attacks on women destroyed men’s roles as protectors of their families, and, by targeting female relatives of the Armenian leadership in particular, minimized potential resistance. Throughout the Genocide most rapes were perpetrated, or at least enabled, by groups. While we lack explicit evidence that these rapes created solidarity among male perpetrators (as scholars of rape theorize), the complicity among various levels of the Ottoman hierarchy does suggest a concerted dehumanization of the victims.”

— Katherine Derderian, “Common Fate, Different Experience: Gender-Specific Aspects of the Armenian Genocide, 1915-1917”

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New Post has been published on https://massispost.com/2024/04/arsonist-target-armenian-cemetery-in-fresno/

Arsonist Target Armenian Cemetery in Fresno

FRESNO (FOX26News)  — Since the middle of January, the Fresno Ararat Armenian Cemetery has been targeted by an arsonist. Six total incidents have burned 19 old-growth trees. Friday night 8 trees were torched along the beautiful main entrance. Both Fresno Police and Fire have been called out to the Belmont and Hughes property, but no arrests have been made. “As you can imagine, this is horribly upsetting to my Board of Directors, the Armenian community, and my staff and me. We are the only Armenian cemetery outside Armenia and the Middle East; our mission is to serve Armenian families with compassion…