HAMAINK
The Newsletter for the U.K. Armenian Community
Published by the ACCC
In Service to the Community
ISSUE No 12
(December 2007)
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 Christmas & New Year
Message From
His Holiness
Catholicos
Karekin II
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SWISS FEDERAL TRIBUNAL REJECTS APPEAL
AGAINST CONVICTION BY TURKISH POLITICIAN - DOGU PERINCEK - FOR DENIAL OF THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
17 MILLION DOLLARS to be paid out to relatives of Victims of Armenian Genocide who were insured by
the AXA Insurance Company.
ALL DESCENDENTS CAN CLAIM.
Click Here for details and List of Insured.
Claims Deadline is 7th January 2008
The Parliament of South America Recognizes the Armenian Genocide
Turkey stops use of Turkish air space by
Armenian airlines. Flights to Syria and Lebanon effected.
 LORD ARA DARZI becomes
Minister of Health in new Brown Government
UNITED STATES CONGRESS FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE PASSES Resolution H.Res 106 RECOGNISING THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
STEPHEN POUND MP Visits Armenia and Karabagh - Meets High Ranking Officials
ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY VISITS CATHOLICOS OF ALL ARMENIANS
Dear Prime Minister - - -
Read Letter to Prime Minister Tony Blair from CRAGon the occasion of the Commemoration
of the 92nd Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide
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CULTURAL GENOCIDE CONTINUES
Destruction of headstones in the Armenian cemetery of Old Jugha (Nakhichevan)
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ASSASSINATION OF HRANT DINK
Robert Fisk:
Let me denounce genocide from the dock - - - Suddenly, those Armenian mass graves opened up
before my own eyes
Robert Fisk:
You're talking nonsense, Mr Ambassador - -
All the while, new diplomatic archives are opening to reveal the smell of death - Armenian death
Sen. Hillary Clinton and Majority Leader Reid Co-sponsor Armenian Genocide Legislation
SERJE SARKISSIAN Appointed Prime Minister of Armenia
ARMENIA - Parliamentary Elections
-Results
ARMENIAN PARLIAMENT ENDORSES BILL ON DUAL CITIZENSHIP
NORWAY'S COUNCIL OF KRAGERO
RECOGNISES GENOCIDE
Orhan Pamuk's Nobel Prize
'' The Ottoman Armenians - The Final Images'' -
Exhibition organised by Land & Culture Org of UK and CRAG
Petition to the Prime Minister in support of Missing Cypriots and their Relatives
NEWS FROM THE K.TAHTA ARMENIAN COMMUNITY SUNDAY SCHOOL
_______________________School Calendar 2007 - 2008
Term 1 - Autumn term:
9 September - 16 December
Half term 21 October
14 October "Targmanchants" ton.
24 November "Quiz night". ( Click Here for Details)
16 December New Year celebration.
Term 2 - Winter term:
13 January - 9 March
Half term 24 February
2 February "Junior Quiz night".
( details to be announced)
17 February Celebration of "Vardanants" day
23 February Celebration of the 30th Anniversary of the School ( details to be announced)
Term 3 - Spring term
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6 April - 13 July
Half term 25 May
4 May "Mother's day" celebration.
(details to be announced)
29 June Annual BBQ. ( details to be announced)
13 July Year End assembly ( details to be announced)
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Holy Etchmiadzin :
http://www.armenianchurch.org
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REGULAR COMMUNICATIONS
RECEIVED FROM THE
MOTHER SEE OF HOLY ETCHMIADZIN
 KEVORK TAHTA ARMENIAN
COMMUNITY SUNDAY SCHOOL
K. Tahta Armenian Community Sunday School Classes are held every Sunday from 10:30a.m. to 2:00p.m. at Twyford Church of England School, Twyford Crescent, Acton, London W3 9PP.
The Sunday School offers parallel classes both in Eastern and Western Armenian to pupils aged between 3 and 16 years old, and it is composed of the following three sections: (1) Nursery
Section (two years); (2) Pre–academic Section (two years); and (3) Academic Section (nine years). Classes are also offered to adults wishing to learn either Eastern or Western Armenian.
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TERRORIST ATTACKS IN LONDON
Transcript of letter by His Holiness Karekin II, Catholicos of All Armenians, sent to the Right Honourable Tony Blair M.P., The Prime Minister.
= Statement from the Primate of the Armenian
Church of the United Kingdom, Bishop Nathan Hovhannisian
= Statement from the Armenian Community & Church Council of Great Britain.
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HUMOUR:
" Drive-In Take-Away"
(After viewing film clip please press
browser "BACK" button to return )
About the ACCC
and our Committees
BOOKS "HISTORY OF THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE"
By Prof. V. Dadrian
BLUE BOOK - British Parliamentary Report - New Uncensored Version
Balakian: The Burning Tigris
Galichian: Historic Maps of Armenia
VIRUS WARNING
A new Virus is being spread by e-mails purportedly from an internet greeting card
source. The e-mail says you have a Greeting Card/Fun Card and asks you to open a link to the card site. However the 'link' starts-up a download which introduces the virus.
Advice: Do Not Attempt to View a Greeting Card if You Do Not Recognise the Sender |
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Victim of Turkish Racism and
Intolerance of Free Speech HRANT DINK
TURKISH ARMENIAN WRITER SHOT DEAD IN TURKEY
ARMENIAN COMMUNITY & CHURCH COUNCIL OF GREAT BRITAIN HRANT DINK
On behalf of the British Armenian Community of the United Kingdom we would like to extend our deepest sympathies and condolences to Hrant Dink's wife and family for their tragic loss.
Hrant Dink will also be missed by his extended family of the Armenian Community worldwide of which he was a prominent and respected member.
As a Turkish Citizen, whose family have had roots in Turkey for many generations, Hrant Dink belonged to that group of Turkish
intellectuals, together with people such as Orhan Pamuk and Ragip Zarakolu, who strived for the emancipation of the Turkish
people, the introduction of freedom of expression in Turkey and the development of Turkey into a State which would qualify for entry into the European Union.
As a Turkish Citizen Hrant Dink's vision of an enlightened Turkey included the ability of Turkish people to look at their history and
recognise the mistakes and crimes committed in the past. Instead of blind denial of historical truths, to allow for free discussion
in the Turkish Press and the recognition and condemnation of the Armenian Genocide.
If Hrant Dink was assassinated because of his progressive ideas for the good of Turkey, then his passing is certainly a loss for
Turkey. Until free-thinking people like Hrant Dink, Pamuk and Zarakolu are allowed to express their opinions without legal restraints in Turkey, then Turkey cannot claim to be part of the Free World.
If Hrant Dink was assassinated because he was an Armenian and for his active efforts for Turkey to allow free discussion of the Armenian Genocide, then he has become a victim of Turkish Racism and Extreme Nationalism.
Hrant Dink's life will have become simply one more Armenian life to be added to the 1.5 Million murdered Armenian lives for which
Turkey is responsible and for which it must give proper account. Turkey must address the undeniable historical facts, recognizing the crimes of its predecessors and must condemn them as Genocide.
Until that day arrives, every Armenian in this World is another "Hrant Dink" demanding justice for the crimes committed upon their people in Turkey.
If the outpouring of grief and anger of the demonstrators in Istanbul immediately following the assassination of Dink, and at his
funeral, are indicative of a potential change of mental attitudes, then there may be hope for Turkey yet.
ACCC
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