“I summoned you to say my last word. The freedom conquered with blood will not live long if the spirit of struggle weakens and our unity shatters. Unity is the source of all our blessings, but discord is the source of evil and strife which kill a good deed. Always remember: our ancestors lost their …
Nikol Aghbalian (1875, Tiflis – 1947, Beirut) was an Armenian social and political activist, literary critic, and a member of the Dashnaktsutyun party. He graduated from the Tiflis Nersisian School and the Etchmiadzin Gevorgian Seminary. He also studied at the Moscow, Lausanne, and Sorbonne (Paris) universities. After completing his studies, Aghbalian worked as a teacher …
“In 1915, the genocide of Armenians began in the territory of the Ottoman Empire. On the Genocide Remembrance Day (the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Great Crime, as the Armenians call it), we bring to your attention the memories of eyewitnesses to this tragedy. I am the son of Mkrtich Yartymian, a …