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Friday, August 02, 2013 Recent Articles from the Armenian Weekly... What Our Words Mean: Towards the Vindication of Medz Yeghern Turkish Shepherd Killed After Crossing into Armenian Territory Celebrating Armenian Literary Tradition in the Library of Congress Ajemian Book Tour Solidifies Author’s Popularity AUA Hosts 22nd International Conference on ‘Discrete Simulation of Fluid Dynamics’ Yegparian: Turk vs. Turk Maybe Artsakh’s Time Has Come Search Armenian Weekly What Our Words Mean: Towards the Vindication of Medz Yeghern People do not bother to look for attitudes andterminology which will assert their unique identities,but rather opt for popular and widely current formulas.–The Armenian Weekly, editorial (1981)1 ‘Shoah’ or ‘Holocaust’? A crime against humanity may trigger a catastrophe for the victims, as exemplified by the obliteration of Jewish life throughout continental Europe during World War II. The close relationship between evil, calamity, and crime should be regarded as one of the logical reasons for the adoption of the wordShoah (Catastrophe) as the name of a catastrophic crime against humanity. Raphael Lemkin It is interesting to recall that when the term genocide had not yet been coined, the Armenian extermination that began in 1915 was called “administrative holocaust” by Winston Churchill (1929). According to journalist William Safire (1929-2009), it appears that Raphael Lemkin’s word “struck many as too clinical a description of what... Read More »