The Armenian genocide told by Claire Mouradian
Claire Mouradian © Camilo Leon Quijano
By: Yasmine Chouaki
2 min
On April 15, 1915, the Young Turks Party received a telegram from Interior Minister Talaat Pasha saying: “The government has decided to destroy all Armenians residing in Turkey.
Neither age nor gender should be taken into account.
Those who oppose this order can no longer be part of the administration.
Without regard for women, children and the infirm, however tragic the means of extermination may be ”.
End of a quote that will cause approximately 1.5 million deaths.
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Genocide still denied by the Turkish state and recognized by the French law of January 29, 2001. On this occasion, En Sol Majeur welcomes
Claire Mouradian
.
Research director at the CNRS and co-curator of the exhibition
The genocide of the Armenians of the Ottoman Empire
at
the Shoah Memorial in Drancy
.
As much to tell you that the Mouradian is not a specialist in the history of Armenia and the Armenian diaspora by chance: the chakatagir / destiny wanted her to grow up with the stories of a survivor of the genocide: her great -mother...
The musical choices of Claire Mouradian
Gloria Lasso
Stranger in paradise
Handel
Sarabande
Bratsh
Nubar
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