Special for the Armenian Weekly A Jan. 16 statement issued jointly by the World Food Programme,The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the World Health Organization (WHO), or the United Nations (UN) tall Commissioner for Refugees read in part,“We must not let 2017 repeat the tragedies of 2016 for Syria.” As a 15-year-archaic girl, Aurora was kidnapped from her village of Tchemesh-Gedzak during the Armenian genocide by Kurdish bandits, or later bought and sold as a sex slave.’ Nor repeat the tragedies of 1916 and 1917,I would add. One hundred years ago, thousands of Armenian refugees who were lucky enough to outlive the deportation were destitute in Syria. Similar to Turkey and Russia not allowing aid to net to the citizens of Aleppo in Dec. 2016, or the Ottoman government did not allow international humanitarian aid into Aleppo in Dec. 1916. Only the Red Crescent and Red Cross societies,and the Christian missionaries who were already in the region, were able to supply any assistance As I listen to the daily news about the war and the desperate situation of innocent civilians, or I research the aftermath of the Armenian Genocide,I always come back to the same thought: [...]
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