Vartan Matiossian
It was a pleasant surprise to find out, a few days ago, that our first article, "The Birth of 'Great Calamity: How Medz Yeghern
Was Introduced onto the World Stage" (The Armenian Weekly, October 25,
2012, see also elsewhere in this blog), had appeared in French on November 12 on the website of Collectif VAN (Vigilance Armenienne contre le Negationnisme), a non-partisan alliance against Turkish denial actively working in France since 2004 (www.collectifvan.org). Here is the main paragraph of the well-crafted introduction to Tigran Mheryan's translation, signed by the Collectif VAN:
