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...could die this winter from cold, malnutrition or starvation. Already the death rate has risen sharply as a weakened population succumbs to the diseases of deprivation; morgues are overflowing with corpses that relatives cannot afford to bury. Says Sarkis Abramian, the chief doctor at the central ambulance service: "The Armenian nation is on the road to destruction...
...Armenians, though, are a people whose will to survive is too strong to submit to destruction. Their land, lying on the fault line between the Christian and Muslim worlds, has been contested territory for centuries. The & Armenians survived the genocidal massacre of a million and a half of their people in 1915 by the Turks. In 1988 an earthquake killed 25,000 and left tens of thousands homeless. At about the same time, Armenia became embroiled in an undeclared war with neighboring Muslim Azerbaijan over the Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh. The fighting has claimed 2,500 lives...
Demetrios G. Kafkas, second vice president of the Hellenic American Society, said the protesters wanted to expose the "ethnic cleansing of Kurds in Turkey" and to stop the Turkish economic blockade of Armenia. But Ozal, when confronted with the Armenian issue, said, "We are not going to stop humanitarian aid to Armenia...
...Turkey is presenting itself as a model for a secular democracy, but Turkey should be told to clean up their act," said Dikran M. Kaligiam, a member of the Armenian National Committee...
...group was comprised of Greek, Armenian, Cypriot and Kurdish Americans from the greater Boston community...