WILL PROF. RICHARD HOVANNISIAN LIKE ANY OF THESE CHANGES?  

 

There is an Armenian-descent UCLA professor by the name of Richard Hovannisian. This so-called academician from the state of California is the true example of a daydreamer. On top of his usual claims of Armenian territory to be extracted from their "Armenian Turkey" being under occupation in Eastern Turkey, he is now professing a ludicrous idea that the Turkish Black Sea area should be considered part of an 'old Armenian empire' and that it should be a part of the contemporary geography of the Republic of Armenia. Prof. Richard Hovannisian conducted a conference at UCLA fairly recently on the "Historic Armenian Cities on the Black Sea Pontus communities"

This 'goofy' gentleman, for decades, has been using your tax monies and mine on subjects as ridiculous as this one and on many others. Surprisingly, he is also the Chairman of ' Modern Armenian History' at the university where he's been infesting young American minds and in so doing he's been drawing big salaries as the head of UCLA's Departments of Social Sciences, and the Center of European and Russian Studies.

  THE "PIE IN THE SKY" THEORY AND THE TURKISH BLACK SEA

 

The wishful thinking of Professor Hovannisian, as well as of many other Armenians, solidifies on the hypothesis that if a few Armenians lived somewhere in the Ottoman Empire that area was considered their own land. This 'Pie in the sky' theory still continues today. This academician goes as far as claiming that the Armenians should be given the Black Sea section of modern day Turkey because some Armenians may have lived there prior to the First World War. Hovannisian has the nerve to claim the following: "In the modern period, the Armenian communities from Samsun in the west to Giresun, Ordu, Trebizond, and Rize were enlightened and prosperous (Armenian territories.). There were numerous schools and churches and they became active intellectual centers as well." [This probably is justification enough for his ridiculous claims.]

Professor Hovannisian continues by committing the most egregious lies ever uttered by a university teaching staff. He accuses the Turks of starting the 1895 massacres of all Armenians in this area he calls Pontus. His accusations are so outrageous that one has to dismiss them with a hearty laugh.. His statements, however, have infuriated the Greeks, who also claim the same area for themselves. Hovannisian says many different forces tried to gain possession of the area in 1916-1920 and at the end it was given to the Turks because no Allied Power was willing to assist Armenia to take possession of this area called the PONTUS. The professor thinks that the Armenian Republic is the true possessor of the Black Sea shores, now in the hands of Turks. What a shame that the youth of America are being inculcated by the likes of Richard Hovannisian in UCLA, one of the most prestigious U.S. universities, nick named 'The Big Ten.'

 

 

Let us not forget that Armenia is a country which cannot even feed its own people properly. The Armenian Republic's President Robert Kocharian and his murderous cohorts govern this miserably poor place with an iron hand. Riddled with corruption, terrorism, and mismanagement, today's Armenia is more dependent on U.S. and Russian aid than ever before.

The all-powerful Armenian lobby in the U.S. Congress amassed for Armenia more than 1.4 billion dollars in the last decade alone. Now they are asking a yearly contingency of 90 million dollars, to be granted to that nation. In excess of two million of Armenia's small population of 3.7 million have already escaped to other neighboring countries. There are no industries, no marketable goods to be exported. The unemployment figures are appalling, yet the Kocharian government spends most of the aid money it receives from foreign sources and the contributions from Armenians in Diaspora to operate hatred camps, to produce racist films and literature. Thousands of dollars are spent for a slue of hateful propaganda, and this is happening in a place where the average monthly salary is $6.00. The salary of a university sociology professor is a whopping $25.00 a month. According to Alexei V. Kuznetsov of the Los Angeles Times Moscow Bureau, Masis Cochirian, who lives in the town of Charentsavan is willing to leave his furnished two-room apartment in a workers dormitory to anyone who could purchase him a bus ticket to Russia. Masis says: "I promise, you will never see me again. The "L.A. Times' Kuznetsov adds: "To Armenian patriots, their president Robert Kocharian is an all too common example of a national dream gone sour."

The despotic ruler, Kocharian, spent all revenues, domestic and foreign, in preserving the myth of a non-existing Armenian genocide, and clearly misused the national treasury for the wrong reasons. After collecting armaments and ammunition from their historic Russian masters, he plunged Armenia into a war on Azerbaijan in 1992, and following a series of slaughters in Nogorno Karabakh, Armenia now occupies 20% of Azeri lands.The war has created over a million Azeri refugees who have been languishing in the freezing leaky tents, whose occupants wallowing in mud and snow in winter, and starvation and disease at all seasons. Millions of dollars are also spent to elect the right kind of U.S. Congressmen and Senators who would twist arms for the adoption of the infamous "G" word by the United States officials. President George W. Bush still refuses to employ the word and is creating many enemies for himself in the upcoming elections.

Back at the personal 'ranch' of Robert Kocharian, things are looking pretty bad, too. At the end of many years of decaying, witnessed in a not only economic but also ethical and moral ground the country is now facing another problem. Scores of Armenian soldiers are dismissed from duty in the national armed forces, by claiming that they are homosexuals. This is a convenient way to avoid serving in the military. In a tiny land-locked country like Armenia, there exists an unusual proportion of them. During the past year alone seven 'gay men' were murdered. The representative of the Helsinki Human Rights organization, Mikael Danielyan recently complained to a group of international Press members that there was no human rights for homosexuals in Armenia. While on the other hand a governmental representative , Nilim Barua, gave a recent statement to the Arminfo that the Media was exaggerating the problem. It could easily be said that Armenia has been living a most difficult time, ever since it got its independence from the former Soviet Union in 1991.

In one of my earlier essays : "The Sinking Ship Of Armenia" I had used a Turkish proverb which I would like to repeat here one more time: "He who does not have "ayran" to drink, insists on being carried to the bathroom in a sedan chair." That is what the President of this tiny mountainous, landlocked country is doing to Armenia. As alluded to earlier, instead of helping the average citizen to live a little bit better and prevent this huge exodus from happening in their homeland, Kocharian has been doing quite the opposite. He has been wasting all that money provided to him by the Congress of the USA and the charitable collections of the Diaspora Armenians. He is fond of building monuments for the victims of an unproven alleged genocide, and of equipping ASALA's Dashnack terrorists with modern weapons of destruction and murder. And for that bloody organization called ASALA which has murdered 70 Turkish diplomats and their families, in the recent past, the word murder has been nothing more than 'second nature.' So we hope that when we restate the title of this essay: "Armenians, Come Down From Your Fantasyland and Start Living in the Real World" that admonition does not fall on deaf ears.