Cafesjian Family Foundation to continue construction of Armenian Genocide Memorial Museum in Washington

Armenian News-NEWS.am presents a short version of the article by Appo Jabarian, published in Nouvelles d`Arménie.
Cafesjian Family Foundation (CFF) announced its decision to finish the laudable project of construction of Armenian Genocide Memorial Museum (MMGA), three blocks from the White House by April 24, 2015, the day of the 100th commemoration of the Armenian Genocide, says a press release dated July 26.
The project was previously put on hold because of legal battle between former partners, the FFC and the Armenian Assembly. The court issued its decision in January.
In February, Harut Sassounian, publisher of the California Courier, wrote:
"The most important result of this long process is the decision of Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly to say ‘valid and applicable’ to the clause for the return of the assignment agreement. This means that CFF is entitled to repossess the property previously given to the Armenian Assembly. In addition, the Court decided that the CFF reserves the right to designate one of the four directors to the Board of Directors the MMGA. "
Sassounian noted that for the first time in a federal court history Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly began the 190 pages of her trial with the frightening words of Adolf Hitler, "Who, after all, still speaks of the extermination the Armenians?" She continued by explaining that Hitler referred to "largely successful efforts of the Ottoman Turkish government to eliminate the Armenian population living on its land during the historic First World War, an event known today as the Armenian Genocide." The Judge further added: "The Armenian Genocide is widely known for being the first genocide of the twentieth century. From an estimated 2.1 million living in the Ottoman Empire on the eve of World War I, nearly one and a half million were killed and hundreds of thousands deported. During this period, Armenian people were subject to deportation, expropriation, forced conversions, abduction, torture, massacre and starvation."
I join therefore to the members of the Armenian American community to call Hovnanian, Mathevosian and Krikorian, the leaders of the Armenian Assembly, to hear the voice of tortured victims of the Armenian Genocide, put aside their dispute with Cafesjian and to unite with the rest of the community in realizing this project. Otherwise, their stubborn opposition to this project of full merit, driven by petty vengeance against Cafesjian and the FFC could one day come back to haunt them.”