"Longtime ago it was called Armenia" "Without exactly knowing much where this land can be found" "For more than 2000 years the Armenian ancestors coming from everywhere across the country" "Tried hard to stay attached to their cultural identity" "Despite killings and persecutions" "Hoping each time that it will be the last time" "One of the first christian communities in the world" "The many invaders that continuously retrace and change the borders of my country following their occupational ambitions placed my country under the Turkish occupation" "Behind the deceiving silence of the region that invites for praying" "The life of the Armenian filled with pride will be interrupted" "On the burning sands of Deir ez-Zor that new people" "Who are fanatically passionated by killing" "Remains the souls, Remains the memories" "Remains a poet on his knees that listens to the passing wind" "This wind of Deir ez-Zor that from the number of children killed" "Created a flute, and from the horror of this peace" "Whistled an immortal and majestic melody" "In this second of June, of the year 1921" "I declare the opening of the court session of Berlin" "I remind the experts and the witnesses of this case" "The importance and the sacred nature of this case" "I also warn you that the law reserves a harsh penalty for anyone who gives a false testimony" "Intentionally or not court, start reading the actual accusations" "Segomont Terenion, born in the 2nd of April 1997, a Pakreek with the name Charlton Borg..." "Is accused of killing in the 15th of March 1921" "Former interior Turkish minister Talal Basha and have committed the crime with premeditation" "A crime that counts based on the law articles 211 of the German penalty code" "Accused stand up" "Segomont Terenion, please respond to the question by yes or no to the question if you are guilty" "Are you guilty of committing this crime with premeditation" "No, I don't think I am guilty" "My conscience is clear" "Yes, I have killed a man" "But I am not a murderer" "Good, sit down" "We will proceed to the listening of the witnesses" "Madam Elizabeth Getmaan of number 37 Anduchtras" "You swear that you will say, all the truth and nothing but the truth" "I swear" "Tell the jury what you know" "I was the landlord of this young man at,.... the time when the event took place" "He was a friendly young man, truthful, calm and very clean" "He cleaned his house by himself" "In the morning of,... the 15th of march" "My servant told me that the young boy was crying in his room and he drank cojnac" "I thought that maybe, he had lost someone" "nichols Yessen, merchant at Charlaton Borg" "We are listening.." "When I rushed to the plaintiff to arrest him" "I also asked him why he killed him" "He replied, I am Armenian he is Turkish this is not of a concern to the Germans" "Lola Benenson" "Teacher" "I have given Mr Terenion a few lessons in the German language" "This boy is visibly suffering morally" "He always arrived with a terribly sad face" "Mrs Beneson" "Did he express the motives of his sadness" "Only once" "He told me that he has no friends and all his parents have been killed" "He has never told you anything about Talat Basha" "Never" "Good, I thank you.." "Madame" "Mr. president" "It would be interesting to emphasize to the jury that the Turkish minister" "Talat Bashar was condemned with the death penalty by the federal court of his country" "5th July 1919, for crimes against humanity" "He ran away carrying with him ten thousand livre of public treasure" "He was refugee in Berlin under the false name of" "Saleebe" "I would like to point to the honorable defender that we are not judging the right people" "It's not Talat Basha that we are judging today" "But his assassin" "Segomont Terenion" "Mr prosecutor, I reassure you that I am not mistaken about this case" "But I will show in front of this court that you are mistaken about the identity of the killer" "Mr president" "Let me very quickly give you the facts" "The Jury" "On this month of June 1915" "About 6 years ago" "This man that you are judging today" "He will see in a few seconds the skull of his brother smashed by the hit of an axe" "His mom, her face exploding from a bullet" "Drops in front of him" "Segomont Terenion, terrified and now paralysed by what he saw" "He also listens to the shouting of his two sisters, 14 and 16 that the Turkish police put them aside behind the counter" "Before he collapsed on his turn from the blood which he didn't know whether it was his or his assassinated brothers" "There is nothing around him but hundreds of dead bodies" "Disfigured bodies of women, children and old people" "Mr Jury one survivor by coincidence of this death road, managed to escape of this monstrous massacre that is beyond imagination" "Is going to witness" "Listen to her very well" "My name is Christen Terebashion" "I was born at Arezoon" "Our deportation started in June 1915" "We where four groups" "How many people was your group composed of 500 families" "Which means, seven or eight thousand people" "We were 21 members in my family" "I assisted at the death of all my family, expect for three" "Who have managed to escape the massacre" "How did the massacre, which killed your family happened" "When we have reached to Malta" "They drove us to a mountain" "They then separated the men from the women but each group can see what happens to the other" "All the men were killed with an axe which created a river of blood" "Tell the Jury what happened to the women" "When the night came" "The soldiers choose the most beautiful women" "The youngest" "Those who resisted and refused to give themselves away" "They made a hole in their bodies and were split in half" "Even the pregnant women" "They did not leave them alone" "The Turkish opened their stomach" "Pulled their babies" "Madame, you confirm that you have witnessed this this, unbelievable and horrible event" "I swear Mr president" "One of my sisters was part of those pregnant women" "The court thank you Madame" "Doctor Uhan Islatuse" "You are German and the author of an extended report about the Armenian massacre" "This report is will remain a secret until the end of war" "Because of the German and Turkish alliance" "I would like to ask you to limit your testimony to the question" "The horrors that have just described of the 1915 massacre have they generally happened as described and, the personal events faced by the accused" "Were they credible?" "Mr president to describe the events in such realistic details and lived by hundreds of survivors" "They were published by American, English and French reviews" "The facts are indisputable" "Only the brutal methods that seem uncomprehending on this 20th century" "Permitted the Turkish to execute more than one million humans in such little time the deportation of Areminan's was decided by Turkish authorities was executed in the middle of 1915" "Under the directions of Talat Basha interior minister at that time and Lonver Basha minister of war" "Mr president can I ask the witness if the reasons for this massacre were of religious nature it was a traffic in the name of the religion because the main person responsible, Talat, Enver" "Jamal and Naze was totally" "With the intention to achieve the goal of an" "Islamic Turkish empire" "Destroying all that is not purely Turkish" "That is exact." "Actually, the key word which was pronounced by Talat Basha" "The goal of the deportation was the Neon" "Which means the destination where we do not return" "The Jury 1500000 killed who are left along the roads of Karpot, Zaeton, Trepeson, Dair Alzoor" "Ask you to consciously respond to this unique question" "Segonmant Terenoion is he guilty of killing Talat Basha" "At this exact moment" "The survivors from these assasinated people" "Dispersed onto the four corners of this world" "Looking for a place to be exiled" "Had their eyes fixed on you and in a thousand years" "Mr Jury" "Will still talk about your sentenced decision" "Is she ill Mayrig?" "No it's not a real illness Azad" "It's called sea sickness" "It goes away when we are on firm land" "Tell me Terinion" "Was he condemned or not?" "This I cannot tell you Mr Zakarian" "It's a German paper and me, I don't understand the German language" "You don't even know how to read the titles" ""DASH SHOP FEN GANEIR NIEN"" ""NEIN?" I'm sure it means No but no at what?" "This I cannot tell you" "Is there anyone here who speaks German!" "?" "NO" ""HAGOUV"" ""SARAPELL"!" "We were on the same boat!" "?" "Yes, but me I'm going to continue travelling" "Have you chosen France?" "..." "Is this definite?" "Yes, It's definitive and you?" "I'm going to Venezuela" "But do you have Parents or family, over there?" "No" "No, I don't know anyone there" "But its a nice country name for a bachelor like me" "Think about it like another women" ""Venezuela"" "Agouv, it seems that there is a person who wants to see you, he is waiting for you behind the gate of the harbour" "Okay, I'm going "BARI SHARO BAT"" "Hameedka" "I wrote by chance to you" "I never thought you'll receive my letter" "I got the letter 2 weeks ago" "I used to come every morning to wait for your boat and each time they told me you'll come in 2 days" "Yesterday in the night" "I had the feeling" "I don't know why" "But I knew it will be this morning" "Tell me Haka" "Was Terinion liberated?" "Nobody speaks German Here" "Yes he was liberated, it was an anonymous decision" "Everyone, listen to me" "Terinion was liberated" "Terinion was liberated" "I am very happy you are here Haka" "You haven't changed, you know" "It's true Mr. Hagouv" "Especially I haven't got married" "OK, I will wait for you at the exit" ""Zakarian Hagouv"" "Yes sir" ""Zakarian Araksi"" "Ne Boulotian" ""Zakarian Azad" Son of Zakarian and Araksi Zakarian" "Agna and Gayanay Boulitian" "They are my two sisters, Sir" "My first Childhood memory goes back to this stamp" "That never finished staying in the air" "The faces of my mum, dad and my two aunts focused on this object, underlining the importance of it's fall on our papers" "In front of a stall my dad exchanged his beautiful piece of gold for a handful of dirty papers a small booklet and some metal coins" "His first purchase, was for me" "An ice cream cone which didn't reach to my aspiration of expected fruity taste" "We are in France now" "It is not polite to lick the ice cream with your tongue" "Come quickly, come quickly ..." "Here" "You will see, it will become a souvenir for the future" "Without being noticed go and have a look in the display window" "Tell me I didn't see properly" "It's unbelievable" "Is it what I saw?" "Yes, but what did you see?" "OK. let's go" "We have rented" "Azad come on!" "Azad" "Coming coming" "Tell me Sir, it's not a hotel here how many people are you in this family?" "My husband, my son and my two sisters Madame" "The man who came to see me" "He did not tell me of the two sisters" "Isn't that right Sir?" "I didn't know that they were travelling" "Excuse me" "I would like to excuse everyone but while doing that" "But that makes it five people renting rather than three" "Please take this little extra money to compensate for your damage" "If that's okay Madame remark that what I have said is because" "I want to be aware of what is happens in this house" "If you are five you are not three" "Now because I know there is no more problem we will re-arrange it at the end of the month" "Isn't that true?" "of course Madame" "It's upstairs, on the forth floor" "Here it is Madame and Sir" "For the kitchen, come and see here" "For the kitchen you are going to share it with the neighbour in front" "Just for cooking your plates" "Isn't it?" "This is the toilet for this floor" "Melisane,I'm coming down" "It's the seller who is selling snails" "Oooh, It's disgusting" "I was like you, but I assure you they are very, very nice" "Tell me Akaa, do they employ new people where you work" "I work in a refinement mill of sugar and salt" "Why are you asking me this?" "For me ohhh, It's not a place for you Mr Hagouv" "Especially, in the section of available jobs." "Zakarian the son of the very famous trader of Mermarer sea" "You see it is not a place for you" "And where is a place for me?" "Listen to me carefully Akar" "The big illness of exiled people is the nostalgia" "Of what they have lost" "It starts by those who cry .." "Those who goes back in memory, to what they were and what they have become" "The nostalgia is the luxury of an artist we need words that allow us to live then tomorrow when you go to your factory" "I will come with you" "Come back immediately, tell me mother" "What is to be an Armenian?" "I told you come back to the house" "Its nothing" "They are all like this" "Tell me Akar, what is it like in Marseilles" "Marseilles is a big city compared to ..." "Clearly there is everything things that are very good and less good" "Open the door for me Akar" "The tenants next door are eating in front of the oven" "I didn't want to disturb them" "But, did they see you with your plate?" "I don't know but, they must have seen me because I stayed there for a while in the hallway" "They acted as if they didn't see me" "The landlord told us that we can use the kitchen in turns" "Only for the cooking" "Yes, we should take the food to our rooms" "Then I don't understand" "Excuse me Mr, Madame, please" "Sit down now, don't move.. you Understand" "Do you understand me?" "Are you kidding?" "You don't come here to make your laws" "Antone don't get upset like this" "Antone ... calm down" "I will calm down when If want" "If he is not happy, he can go back to where he came from" "Is it clear?" "..." "It must be horrible" "I have never seen anything more stupid" "All we are asking for is fire" "From the good of your heart." "Madame and Sir" "You don't have a little bit of fire for us please?" "A piece of fire" "This I think what started the idea of a bakery" "Excuse me Sir" "Please would you please accept this plate in a small corner of your oven" "We don't have anything to cook it with" "First door to your right" "Wait for me at the end of the corridor" "I will come to open for you" "Thank you" "From a hostile France several floors up" "We have discovered a France that is more neighbourly" "And a little bit of friendship in the oven of a bakery" "Azad" "Have another small piece" "Thank you aunt Anna" "Only this one look how tender it is" "It's going to melt in your mouth like butter" "I'm not hungry, Aunt Anna" "As you wish" "Nobodies hungry" "We hardly touched the plate" "It wasn't good?" "it was superb Madame Anna" "Before, when i saw it coming out of the oven" "Covered with it's brown coat the rosy meaty inside, all surrounded with cooked potatoes" "The tomato and the pepper cooked with the butter" "I thought of eating it all alone but now, I've lost my appetite" "Come" "Lets have a little bit of fresh air" "Tell me Akar" "Were you with my brothers in the deportation?" "Yes, Mr Hagov" "I was with them" "It's you who have reason ... .   ..." "They told us" "You need to run away immediately" "Without crying about what you leave behind" "Your brothers, Aram, Neran and Eonique" "They stayed to save the goods of Zakerian and his children they have lost the goods, and their lives" "Luckily, you still have a part of the family" "The coffee is ready" "Come on, it's time you go to bed" "It's good, to find you again" "From father to son we have always worked" "With the Zackerian family and you have never let us feel that you have been the boss" "Don't say something stupid" "Tell me Akar" "Do you know the son of Mr Papazion" "The doctor Vaskin Papazion of Paris" "OO LA LAAA, do I know him?" "His formidable, he was with us of Monday morning of the conviction   ... they told us, its about a small movement of the population for military reasons they promised to carry us at the exit of the city" "for two hundred livres per person" "Those who had paid for the others that didn't have" "Nearly, after two hours" "When we got the carriages" "The soldiers they started to laugh" "For days and days we walked under the burning sun covered in sand dust without anything to eat or water" "We crossed the deported groups of" "Nanadakhapout, Goutsa, Ezmeeet, Adabavat and Tribevant" "They came from everywhere in thousands" "We have passed in-front of hundreds of bodies without heads" "The leaders of the Turkish groups" "Have fixed at 600 livres for every Areminan killed" "The thing that was not possible to support is the sound of the crying children" "The Turkish soldiers attached them in twos to throw them from the top of the hill in the cold and the screaming of the mom's who became crazy" "From the pain they started a crazy dance and what happened to father Serope he was ridiculed" "The Turkish soldiers undressed him" "He was a respectable old man" "With his long white beard walking without clothes" "In the beginning we thought that the superior authorities didn't know what we were facing" "And that all our suffering is coming from the soldiers" "But then when the governor Jerdef Bak passed in front of our convoy" "I started to shout "JERDEF BAK"" "Leave him" "Who are you?" "What do you want?" "..." "My respected Sir they are killing us" "We were thousands and thousands" "Now we are only a few hundreds" "And our feet are filled with blood" "We will give you new shoes Akar" "Shoes that cannot wear out" "And the others?" "I will show them your shoes" "If they still want I will give them the same" "Thank you your excellency" "I was treated like an animal" "The Turkish soldiers returned me back to my convoy" "On every step it was like a 100000 needles penetrated into my heart" "But at the same time but something stronger pushed me to stay alive to say that I have lived in hell" "A convoy of several thousands of deported people ends up with only a hundred survivors to prove to foreign ministries that it was a simple displacement of population the last village that we have crossed, is Halived" "After Halived it was a desert and death from thirst" "I see a big, immense oasis" "It's in your imagination" "It's called a mirage because we need water, we end up seeing water" "But it's just an appearance" "I am as hungry as I am thirsty but still I don't see any cooked meat" "I tell you it is water not an illusion" "Listen to me carefully" "This oasis is for our Kurdish friends" "He who wants to drink needs to pay a 100 livres per person" "You know very well we don't have anything" "Because you have taken everything from us" "But this water over there it's not for the Kurdish people nor for the Turkish" "It's water for everybody" "It's water from the sky" "So, listen to me" "Mr Officer" "My name is Vascual Papzion for every person in danger" "I order these people to drink this rain water" "Also me I had the thirst that was burning my body" "I had the thirst to drink the ocean and the fish" "But to escape death I had to fake death" "I didn't even resemble a body that is worth searching" "The difficulty was to stay still facing all the unsupportable pain that I had the eyes of your brother Aram" "These eyes that I saw laughing so many times" "These eyes as if they were telling me why am I dead?" "How long have I stayed in this field" "A passing caravan picked me up" "They were also Turkish or Kurdish but not the same" "Of all these people I was the only one that survived ..." "With a broken body ..." "My idea to return from this road of death to tell people what a man can do to another man" "This night" "Akar with his sad face" "Brutally pulled me out from my world of fairy tales" "I suddenly understood this ghost ship" "That will one day take us back my two big brothers and my sister" "It was only a lie of love to delay my pain" "To deceive death my family were divide in two we were the ones who lived by luck" "The others" "They sank under the boiling sand of the desert" "So, this night I lost the way I see the world as a child ..." "Yes, be careful" "They are everywhere" "Shh, don't wake up the little one" "What's going on?" "We didn't want to wake you up" "Don't worry" "It's nothing" "What is it Papa?" "They are flying beatles" "We should be very careful not to squash them" "As they will leave a red stain on the covers" "With a bad smell" "Are they dangerous?" "Not at all" "But they are very annoying because they come out at night" "They search human skin" "During day time, they hide in the cracks of the wall" "Look, look over there Papa" "Surely they are not millions w" "When we kill them all it will be all finished" "No, they are not millions but they make hundreds of eggs" "They multiply" "When you think there is nothing left" "There is still more" "We need to complain to the lady" "Whom we are paying for the room" "Definitely not" "She will say that we brought them with us from Armenia" "Yes beautiful" "How can I serve you?" "...." "And one kilo of potatoes, please" "My eggs are very fresh they were made today" ".." "Excuse me Ms we are strangers" "What is the biggest school in Marseilles?" "It's for my son ..." "It depends on what you want to learn" "You have this school ..." "You have to study there for two years to get a certificate" "And now, I would like to tell you which one is the biggest school" "Wait" "Hey Ferenan" "Are you there?" "Yes I am here.." "I'm sleeping" "This is only to ask you something" "What's your response if we ask you" "What is the biggest school in Marseille?" "I will answer, the Centelaire collage" "Centelaire collage" "This is what he does best ... I never knew how much" "But it's not for free.. this I can tell you" "The state colleges are for free or nearly free" "Tell me Teresesa" "Your son goes to the Centeraire collage?" "Yes" "You don't know by chance" "How much does it cost, to go to this school?" "Oh la la" "These are not things we discuss with the chef in the kitchen" "But when I went to pick up my son" "There were lots of women wearing expensive jackets" "The cars in front of the school" "We see that these are people without government benefits" "Oh I remembered" "There is someone that can better inform you" "Mister Hug the pharmacist his cousin goes to this collage" "Collage Centelair" "Preparation for Bacheloria" "Religious inscription" "Mr Hug the first class pharmacist" "He talked about the collage Centelair" "Emphasising money spent by semester This number has no meaning for me" "For me money is a notion that is limited to the eight buttons of the dress for my mother" "Which covers each a piece of gold" "She tore off one button on the border" "When we arrived to Marseille" "And a second one yesterday afternoon" "To buy a kitchen corner"