Incense me and erect the glorious temple of immortality,
Fall on your knees and worship me, and
When the time comes, burn yourself alive for me,
Crush your earthly forehead against the marbles of my monument,
Because it is Me, it is Me, my name is Struggle and my end is Victory.
Siamanto
On 5 May 2017, the Hamazkayin Armenia Office and ARF Youth Union of Armenia organized a literary event at Mirzoyan library. The evening was dedicated to the Armenian writers martyred during the Genocide. The library hall was packed. The creations of Varuzhan, Siamanto, Rouben Sevak and other martyred writers, which encourage us to live, had unified in the hall the young readers and students.
The key speaker of the evening was the Armenian Genocide Museum Institute’s senior curator Gohar Khanumyan. She presented a historical essay about the phases of the nation-killing program, previously prepared and consistently implemented by the Young Turks, the elimination of Armenian intellectuals, their arrests in one night, exile, and murder.
After the key speaker’s speech, the members of ARF Youth Union of Armenia read excerpts from the creations of martyred writers such as Siamanto, Rouben Sevak, Varuzhan, Andranik Dzarougian, and Zareh Vorbuni.
Hamazkayin's Armenia Office Director, Nare Mikaelian welcomed the participants of the literary evening organized in commemoration of martyred writers. She said, ″Of course, the Genocide interrupted the normal development and progress of Western Armenian literature, but the existing and the new literature, created in the decades after the Armenian Genocide, confirmed that the Armenian people continues to stay true to its commitments and national dreams. Moreover, the existence of newly independent Armenia is one of its most important guarantees.″
At the end of the literary evening, the book Collection of Literature about the Armenian Genocide, published by the Hamazkayin Armenian Educational and Cultural Society, was presented to the participants of the event, and they got it as a gift. The book is a fiction narrative of the Genocide and the comprehensive analysis of our pain.
May 10, 2017
Hamazkayin Armenia Office