Taleen Babayan
One simple — yet key — question set
into motion 30 years of research: how many Armenians were actually
massacred during the Armenian Genocide?
This question was posed to Dr. Sarkis Karayan in 1971, when he
was serving as chief of the American University of Beirut’s Maternal and
Child Health Center, by Dr. Stanley Kerr, chairman of the Department of
Biochemistry at AUB. Close friends and esteemed colleagues, Kerr was
working on his soon-to-be published book Lions of Marash, which
focused on the eyewitness accounts of the American Near East Relief’s
efforts during the Armenian Genocide. Kerr knew that Karayan was not
only Armenian, but possessed the passion for history and research that
would lead him to the accurate findings.
He was right.
