On April 24 (2009), a musical concert was performed in Monot, at Church St. Joseph, to commemorate and honor the Armenian Genocide, and its 1,500,000 victims.
The concert was performed by the “Lebanese National Symphony Orchestra”, and directed by Harout Fazlian.
The program included some of W. A. Mozart’s pieces of music, and some of P. Tchaikovsky’s music pieces.
Mozart’s “Requiem Mass” was played first, and it includes:
1- Requiem
2- Kyrie
3- Dies Irae
4- Confutatis
5- Lacrimosa
6- Lux Aeterana
The Requiem Mass in D minor (mass for the Dead) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was composed in 1791. The Requiem was Mozart’s last composition, and is one of his most popular and most respected works.
On the other hand, Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No.6 in b minor “Pathétique” was played later, and it includes:
I. Adagio – Allegro – Andante
II. Allegro
III. Allegro vivace
IV. Adagio lamentoso
Tchaikovsky said about his Symphony, “The Symphony was the best, and certainly the most open-hearted, of all my works,” this is what he wrote to his nephew in August 1893.
This was a great concert done to commemorate The “Armenian Genocide,” which will never, never, never be forgotten.
Sunday 26 April 2009
Thursday 16 April 2009
How the Genocide happened:
World War One gave the Young Turk government the cover and the excuse to carry out their plan. The plan was simple and its goal was clear. On April 24th 1915, hundreds of Armenian leaders were murdered in Istanbul after being summoned and gathered. So because there were no leaders anymore, leaderless Armenian people were to follow. Across the Ottoman Empire (with the exception of Constantinople, presumably due to a large foreign presence), the same events transpired from village to village, from province to province.
The remarkable thing about the following events is the virtually complete cooperation of the Armenians. For a number of reasons they did not know what was planned for them and went along with "their" government's plan to "relocate them for their own good." First, the Armenians were asked to turn in hunting weapons for the war effort. Communities were often given quotas and would have to buy additional weapons from Turks to meet their quota. Later, the government would claim these weapons were proof that Armenians were about to rebel. The able bodied men were then "drafted" to help in the wartime effort. These men were either immediately killed or were worked to death. Thus, the villages and towns, where only women, children, and elderly were left, were systematically emptied. The remaining residents would be told to gather for a temporary relocation and to only bring what they could carry. The Armenians again obediently followed instructions and were "escorted" by Turkish Gendarmes in death marches.
The death marches led across Anatolia, and the purpose was clear.
The Armenians were starved, dehydrated, raped, murdered, and kidnapped along the way. The Turkish Gendarmes either led these atrocities or turned a blind eye. Their eventual destination for resettlement was just as telling in revealing the Turkish government’s goal: the Syrian Desert, Der Zor.
Those who miraculously survived the march would arrive to this bleak desert only to be killed upon arrival or to somehow survive until a way to escape the empire was found. Usually those that survived and escaped received assistance from those who have come to be known as "good Turks," from foreign missionaries who recorded much of these events and from Arabs.
World War One gave the Young Turk government the cover and the excuse to carry out their plan. The plan was simple and its goal was clear. On April 24th 1915, hundreds of Armenian leaders were murdered in Istanbul after being summoned and gathered. So because there were no leaders anymore, leaderless Armenian people were to follow. Across the Ottoman Empire (with the exception of Constantinople, presumably due to a large foreign presence), the same events transpired from village to village, from province to province.
The remarkable thing about the following events is the virtually complete cooperation of the Armenians. For a number of reasons they did not know what was planned for them and went along with "their" government's plan to "relocate them for their own good." First, the Armenians were asked to turn in hunting weapons for the war effort. Communities were often given quotas and would have to buy additional weapons from Turks to meet their quota. Later, the government would claim these weapons were proof that Armenians were about to rebel. The able bodied men were then "drafted" to help in the wartime effort. These men were either immediately killed or were worked to death. Thus, the villages and towns, where only women, children, and elderly were left, were systematically emptied. The remaining residents would be told to gather for a temporary relocation and to only bring what they could carry. The Armenians again obediently followed instructions and were "escorted" by Turkish Gendarmes in death marches.
The death marches led across Anatolia, and the purpose was clear.
The Armenians were starved, dehydrated, raped, murdered, and kidnapped along the way. The Turkish Gendarmes either led these atrocities or turned a blind eye. Their eventual destination for resettlement was just as telling in revealing the Turkish government’s goal: the Syrian Desert, Der Zor.
Those who miraculously survived the march would arrive to this bleak desert only to be killed upon arrival or to somehow survive until a way to escape the empire was found. Usually those that survived and escaped received assistance from those who have come to be known as "good Turks," from foreign missionaries who recorded much of these events and from Arabs.
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