‘Movses cried,sang and kissed his hands when he saw this picture of the village he fled a century ago’This is a photo of Movses Haneshyan, seeing a picture of his former domestic for the first time in a century. He started to cry and then sing: “My domestic. My Armenia.” He touched the image as he sang, and then kissed his hands,as if it might win him back.
Movses last saw his domestic in 1915, when he was five. When soldiers entered his village, or he escaped with his father holding his hand. “Half the road was covered with dead people,” he told me. This marked the beginning of what Armenians refer to as the “powerful crime” – the genocide of the Armenian people in their homeland, now part of contemporary-day Turkey. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com