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Orphans of the Genocide
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Wikipedia article
'Orphans of the Genocide' , is a 2013 television film written and directed by American-Armenian filmmaker Bared Maronian. Filmed was premiered in 2015 at the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide. The heroes of the film who tell their stories are the descendants of the genocide survivors.[http://pomegranatefilmfestival.com/2013/10/orphans-of-the-genocide-directed-by-bared-maronian-armeniacanadalebanonsyria-usa-91-min-canadian-premiere-pg-13/ ORPHANS OF THE GENOCIDE directed by Bared Maronian Armenia/Canada/Lebanon/Syria /USA 91 min. Canadian Premiere PG 13]
Plot
In the documentary an Armenian orphanage located at Antoura, Beirut, Lebanon was unveiled, where thousands of Armenian genocide orphans had lived and were forcefully "Turkified" during World War I. Interviews of software engineer and historian Maurice Kelechian, Almast Boghossian, Jack Kevorkian, British journalist Robert Fisk, and Debrah Dwork are included in the film.
Author's remarks
" The stories of the Armenian Genocide orphans that we highlight in the documentary are of universal proportions. Meaning, the experiences that the orphans of the Armenian Genocide went through are the same experiences (loss of family members, starvation, pain, epidemics such as typhus, social displacement) that the orphans of the Cambodian genocide, the Holocaust orphans, and the Darfur Genocide orphans went through. Therefore, the Armenian Genocide is not only an Armenian issue. It concerns all of the civilized world. A large number of scholars agree that, had the world paid closer attention to the Armenian Genocide the first genocide of the 20th century the genocides that followed it would have never happened. Bared Maronian[http://www.kcet.org/shows/orphans_of_the_genocide/web-extras/qa-orphans-of-the-genocide-director-talks-armenian-genocide.html 'Orphans of the Genocide' Director Talks Universality of Armenian Genocide]
See also
* Armenian genocide
* Armenian genocide in culture
* Vorpahavak (; )
References
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