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Peter Balakian on 60 Minutes
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The Armenians call it their holocaust - the 1915 forced deportation and massacre of more than a million Armenians by the Turks. But the Turks and our own government have refused to call it genocide. "As many as 450,000 Armenians died here," author Peter Balakian told Simon. Balakian is an Armenian American who has written extensively about what happened in this desolate place. According to Balakian, 450,000 Armenians died in this spot in the desert. "In this region called Deir Zor, it is the greatest graveyard of the Armenian Genocide," he explained. Deir Zor is to Armenians what Auschwitz is to Jews. The most ghoulish thing about the place is that 95 years later the evidence of the massacres is everywhere. |
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| ARMENIAN GOLGOTHA A MEMOIR OF THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE, 1915-1918 BY GRIGORIS BALAKIAN Translated by PETER BALAKIAN with Aris Sevag Published by Alfred A. Knopf, April 2  Read Press Release |
“a memoir and . . . a history of the genocide . . . fascinating first-hand testimony to a monumental crime.”—The New Yorker “This book has the feel of a classic about it, and . . . future writers on historical trauma and its representation will turn eagerly to Armenian Golgotha. It's a massively important contribution to this field.”—Jay Parini, The Chronicle of Higher Education “Balakian chronicles his odyssey through Hell that lasted nearly four years [and] provides strong evidence that these gruesome proceedings were carried out under official orders from the highest level. . . . There have been many books on various aspects of the genocide. . . . but for generations to come ‘Armenian Golgotha’ will remain a first-hand documentation of a historical tragedy written from the perspective of a talented scholar.”—Henry Morgenthau III, The Boston Globe |
