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On 28 May 1919, on the first anniversary of the Republic of Armenia, the government of the newly founded country symbolically declared the union of EasternandWesternArmenia, the latter of which was still under the full control of the Turks. Alexander Khatisian, the Armenian Prime Minister, read the declaration:
”To restore the integrity of Armenia and to secure the complete freedom and prosperity of its people, the Government of Armenia, abiding by the solid will and desire of the entire Armenian people, declares that from this day forward the separated parts of Armenia are everlastingly combined as an independent political entity.
Now in promulgating this act of unification and independence of the ancestral Armenian lands located in Transcaucasia and the Ottoman Empire, the Government of Armenia declares that the political system of United Armenia is a democratic republic and that it has become the Government of the United Republic of Armenia.
Thus, the people of Armenia are henceforth the supreme lord and master of their consolidated fatherland, and the Parliament and Government of Armenia stand as the supreme legislative and executive authority conjoining the free people of United Armenia”.
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Armenian girl with identification scaring on chest and face, 1919.
Credit: Underwood & Underwood/Corbis
In the 1920’s thousands of Armenian girls and women managed to escape the Armenian Genocide by fleeing to Syria. Armenian girls were kept in slavery and forced into prostitution. In order to identify them and prevent their escape, their Turkish pimps tattooed their face, arms and chest.
The girl in the photo had just been rescued from a Turkish house and was cared for by the Y.W.C.A workers at Aleppo.
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Faces of political demonstration
Portraits made at one of the Armenian electional meetings of opposition.
Political corruption in Armenia is a widespread and growing problem in Armenian society. Armenia is facing problems by being bullied into decisions by the Russian federation. Armenia is often described as the country in exile as its borders are one of the most closed in the world. Turkey and Azerbaijan lead an aggressive genocidal policy towards Armenia backed by our northern neighboring country Georgia as their ally. Armenia has also faced in the past hundred years Genocide, Invasion by Soviet, Multiple massacres by the Azeri and Soviet regime. Economic, cultural and political abuse by Soviet, Collapse of the Soviet Union, earthquake, war with neighboring Azerbaijan, a decreasing population and an inability to maintain a democratic society. This only the past hundred years, beforehand Armenia and Armenians were heavily abused, neglected, raped, mistreated and persecuted by Ottomans, Seljuk’s, Turks, Kurds, Arabs and have had from less to none freedom both in a political and cultural, spiritual and individual sense in the one thousand years
Photographs taken by the very talented Suren Manvelyan
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