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Azerbaijani Writer: Novel is aimed at showing repentance for our deeds
Posted 01 February 2013 - 10:30 AM
Azerbaijani Writer: Novel is aimed at showing repentance for our deeds
Anti-Armenian hysteria continues to expand in Azerbaijan in connection with the publication of the novel written by writer Akram Aylisli "Stone Dreams" which tells of the massacres of Armenians in Nakhijevan in the early 20th century and in Baku at the end of the century. Azerbaijani writer and winner of state awards was accused of "sympathy for the Armenians". Pro-governmental youth crowded in front of his house. They burnt his portraits and shouted anti-Armenian slogans.
Website Aznews.az held a survey with the Azerbaijani literary critics and public figures. It turned out that most of them had not have even read the book. Those who had read it refused to comment on it. Meanwhile, Azerbaijani poet Musa Yagub believes that dark clouds are looming over Aylilsi head. "I think it is an intentional organized campaign against Akram. Something is being planned against him", said Musa Yagub.
Executive secretary of the ruling party "Yeni Azerbaijan" Siyavush Novruzov said in his turn that the "Akram Aylisli's biggest dream is to become an ambassador to Armenia," Azxeber.com says. "Probably, he also wants to win a Nobel Prize, just like Orhan Pamuk who recognized the Armenian Genocide," said Siyavush Novruzov and reminded that it was Zia Buniyatov that had expressed assumptions about Aylisli's Armenian origin as the latter was born in Nakhijevan, in a village populated by Armenians. "Now, this fact was confirmed," said the functionary of the ruling party.
"Is it you who should serve an example for the young people, you unscrupulous and dishonest person!" young Azerbaijani poet Ahmed Shaheed said about Akram Aylisli, the Strategiya.az writes.
Azerbaijani MP, poet Musa Guliyev also accused Aylisli in habing an Armenian origin. In an interview with the Modern.az, Musa Guliyev noted that by this novel Aylisli gave another reason to Armenians to claim that they cannot live side by side with barbarous Azerbaijanis. "In the introduction he writes that the book is devoted to his "compatriots" and it is not by chance. This means that he is about Armenians in Agulis," Musa Guliyev stated.
Meanwhile, Asim Mollazade, Azerbaijani MP, found a "Russian trace" in this incident. As Ann.az reports Mollazade called the novel "a political scandalous trick", he said that all the events described in the novel are pure inventions, and the novel itself is an order from Russia aimed at undermining the public consolidation in Azerbaijan.
Akram Aylisli in an interview given to Kulis.az stated that in 1988, when the first version of his novel about Agulis was published, he warned that they should not start a fight against the Armenians, as they may lose it. "And what did we gain in the result of the war? I was factually right," he noted. The Azerbaijani writer also drew attention to the impossibility of holding a dialogue with the Armenians of Karabakh due to the hostile propaganda against them.
"We will have another variant if no Armenian will be left there. But it is impossible. As for Agulis, there really occurred a massacre in that village in 1919. This is a history, a fact. Any aged resident of Agulis can attest it, because they saw it with their own eyes. My uncle, my mother, my grandmother saw this. As for the publication of the updated version of novel, it is my protest against the current politics. It is not directed against the people. Tomorrow we will have to make it up with the Armenians. We are doomed to it.
In connection with the events in Sumgait, we must bravely talk about every fact of injustice and call a spade a spade. If not the writer then the people of Azerbaijan will have to do it. The novel was aimed at showing repentance for our deeds," the Azerbaijani writer stated.
Source: Panorama.am
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Posted 01 February 2013 - 11:21 AM
19:18, 31 January, 2013
YEREVAN, JANUARY 31, ARMENPRESS: Another anti-Armenian hysteria has
occurred in Azerbaijan. It is addressed against Azerbaijani People's
writer Akram Aylisli. As reports Armenpress, referring to haqqin.az,
a pro-government youth group held a rally in front of the house
of famous writer Akram Aylisli. About 30 people protested against
Aylisli's book "Stone Dreams", yelling "Shame on Akram Aylisli! ","
Akram Aylisli - Armenian".
In "Stone Dreams", Akram Aylisli makes positive statements about
Armenians, which caused criticism against him by pro-government
media and activists. According to the ideology of the ruling regime,
it was equal to a betrayal of national interests.
Police arrived by the end of the action, but did not intervene. When
the young people stopped screaming, the police said that it was time
for them to leave. At the end of the campaign, young people burned
portraits of the writer.
Posted 02 February 2013 - 10:25 AM
''The New York Times'': In Baku, protestors held a mock funeral of a book about massacre of Armenians in Azerbaijan
A novella by an Azeri author that portrays ethnic Armenians sympathetically has provoked an uproar in Azerbaijan, with Azeri lawmakers denouncing the work and protesters burning the author's portrait outside his house, the New York Times reports.
The novella, "Stone Dreams," was published in mid-December by Ekrem Eylisli, a former lawmaker, but condemnation grew strident only over the last week, after mainstream news outlets began reporting on and discussing it. "On Thursday, a crowd of several dozen people gathered around Mr. Eylisli's house and burned his portrait. At a session of Azerbaijan's Parliament on Friday, lawmakers attacked the novel, with one recommending that Mr. Eylisli be stripped of his citizenship and urging him to move to Armenia," the writer says.
Another lawmaker, Melahet Ibrahimqizi, said, "He insulted not only Azerbaijanis, but the whole Turkish nation," a reference to passages in the book that discuss historical Turkish violence toward Armenians.
As the article writes, Mr. Eylisli, 75, said he knew there might be an uproar over his book, which he finished in 2007. He said he decided to publish it last year in a relatively obscure Russian-language journal, Friendship of Peoples, because Russian-language speakers tend to be better educated and more progressive.
"Armenians are not enemies for me," he said in an interview. "How can they be? I am a writer living in the 21st century. A solution to Nagorno-Karabakh is being delayed, and hostility is growing between the two nations. I want to contribute to a peaceful solution."
As Mr. Eylisli added that he was shocked by the ferocity of the reaction.
The American paper writes that on Friday, protesters placed a copy of the journal containing "Stone Dreams" in a coffin and held a mock funeral at a monument in honor of Azeris who were killed in the war. "Via social media, young people discussed passages in the book that they found particularly distasteful, like a description of the young hero's impulse to convert to Christianity and "ask God to forgive Muslims for what they did to the Armenians," the article says.
Qan Turali, 28, a popular novelist, said he saw the book's artistic merit but believed that Mr. Eylisli had chosen the wrong time to publish a book portraying Armenians in a positive light. "He is a great writer, the novel is good, but the time is not right," he said. "Azeri people still feel pain and are aggressive. Instead of increasing tolerance toward Armenians, the writer caused more hatred," he said.
Another writer, Oktay Hajimusali, 32, was blunter, saying that it is "nonsense to promote peace with Armenians."
Source: Panorama.am
Posted 04 February 2013 - 09:46 AM
''Turan'':Professor of University in Azerbaijan tells students how he would strangle even a small Armenian child
Lecturer at the university in Azerbaijan described to his students with great rapture for several times and in bright colors how he would with his bare hands without regret strangle even a small Armenian child, recalls the author of the article in the site of Azerbaijani information agency Turan.
The abovementioned professor was lecturing the theory of radio journalism and simultaneously was working on "AZTV radio." At the beginning of each lecture, the professor asked the students which stories were the most important for Azerbaijan that week. "God forbid if someone mentioned any crucial thing about the authorities, the red eyes would turn purple, and the veins would stand out now not only on his nose, but all over the face and neck. This professor had one "iron argument" for all criticisms "how can you criticize our President, when we have such a problem for the whole country in the face of Armenians, you should focus on this," the article reads.
The author notes that today even the laziest person in Azerbaijan reads "Stone Dreams" written by Ekrem Eylisli. "Though, it's wrong to say it in that way. Even the laziest people discuss and condemn the "Stone Dreams". It's from the series like "I have not read Pasternak, but I condemn him," the article says.
Discussion of the book reached the Azerbaijani Parliament. "Members of the Parliament apparently discussed all the problems in the country, and the only issue left to discuss was the genetic code of Ekrem Eylisli. Earlier, the Azerbaijani "patriots" staged a protest under the windows of Eylisli's apartment," the author says.
"Both the activists and the MPs unanimously called Eylisli an Armenian, anti-Azerbaijani element, etc. protesting against the book which allegedly is about Armenians and Azerbaijanis," the article reads.
The author notes that, the agenda of the social protests in the regions of Azerbaijan dramatically changed into verbal lynching of Eylisli and sophisticated discussions about his relations with the Armenians. "Turning the subject over the Armenians, as soon as things get tough, is not a new policy for our government. For example, only a few days ago pro-governmental TV channels, while discussing the famous accusatory investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova, told that her mother was Armenian. They touch Armenian subject at every trifle so that citizens screamed, steamed, get annoyed with the Armenians," the author writes.
"It's amazing how the lessons of history of other people and our own do not teach us anything. How long can we blame the Armenians and like a child with a new toy carry the idea that we have suffered, that they have tortured us in the past and what a pain it is for our people (and please do not bring an example of an analogy of the Armenian genocide, now I am talking about us, not about them), forgetting the fact what Aliyev's government is doing to us right now, today, every day. Is it not a rather moral than physical humiliation for our people and its destruction?" the author sums up.
Source: Panorama.am
Posted 05 February 2013 - 09:59 AM
18:13 05/02/2013 » Society
Azerbaijani intelligentsia demands to burn Eylisli's works: You have to be immoral to become friends with Armenians
Azerbaijani national writer Ekrem Eylisli, author of the book "Stone dreams" which is about the massacre of Armenians is still being haunted. In Baku, they seriously call on to deprive him of his state awards and citizenship and to deport him from the country. The MPs call on to cut off his ear and the pro-governmental intellectuals suggest burning all the works of the author publicly.
Murad Kohnagala writes in Kulis.az, "Our image as barbarians is forever engraved in the memory of the Armenians. They can never be friend to us. They are our eternal enemies. This feud will end only with the end of the planet. We cannot make friends with the Armenians with the help of such humanistic works like Ekrem's. It's also wrong to give Armenians autonomy in Karabakh and allow them to live on these lands. We should occupy the lands by arms and to drive them all out of there. One must be immoral to be friends with the Armenians."
The so-called Union of Refugees issued a statement in which they suggest to exclude from all the school textbooks the works written by Ekrem Eylisli. "We do not want to bring our children up by the works of Armenian writer," Modern.az quotes the statement. The statement also says, "Let's give Eylisli, who is so delighted by the "spiritual values" of his own people, to Armenians. From now on, let everyone call him not Ekrem Eylisli, but Aram Aguletsi."
Source: Panorama.am
Posted 05 February 2013 - 10:49 AM
11:25, 4 February, 2013
YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 4, ARMENPRESS. The true reasons of the hysteria
against the popular Azerbaijani writer Akram Aylisli and his book on
the Armenian massacres in Azerbaijan have been revealed. Akram Aylisli
publicized the book "Stone Dreams" about the Armenian massacres of the
past century in Russian periodical "Druzhba Narodov". In the book the
author cites the stories told by the witnesses of the brutality of
the Azerbaijani Turks towards the Armenian population of Azerbaijan
in Agulis in 1919 and in Sumgait and Baku in 1988-90.
It turns out that the detailed story of brutality of the Azerbaijanis
towards the peaceful Armenian population in Azerbaijan described in
the novel was not the true reason of the hysteria initiated by the
local authorities against the popular writer, who achieved numerous
state awards. As reports "Armenpress" in this respect Azerbaijani
contact.az states that there is a moment in Akram Aylisli's novel
"Stone Dreams", where he hints that "the events in Sumgait could be
organized by the former leader of Azerbaijan, who aimed to damage
Gorbachev and Perestroyka in general. It was him who rejoiced at the
chaos to come to power in Azerbaijan." Among other things the author
of the article noted of the website: "In my opinion this was the very
moment of the novel to determine criticism against the writer."
Posted 05 February 2013 - 11:08 AM
17:35, 4 February, 2013
ARMENPRESS, FERBRUARY 4, YEREVAN: The New York Times reffered to
the uproar raised about the novella written by famous writer Ekrem
Eylisli. As reports Armenpress reffering to The New York Times,
the work tells the story of two Azeri men who try to protect their
Armenian neighbors from ethnic violenc. "It's an incendiary topic in
Azerbaijan. The country still gripped by the war it fought two decades
ago with Armenia. Since the war ended, Azerbaijan has been trying
to regain control of Nagorno-Karabakh, a predominantly ethnically
Armenian enclave within its borders, and secure the return of Azeris
who were forced from their homes," says the paper.
The novella, "Stone Dreams," was published in mid-December by Ekrem
Eylisli, a former lawmaker, but condemnation grew strident only
over the last week, after mainstream news outlets began reporting
on and discussing it. Another lawmaker, Melahet Ibrahimqizi, said,
"He insulted not only Azerbaijanis, but the whole Turkish nation,"
a reference to passages in the book that discuss historical Turkish
violence toward Armenians.
"Armenians are not enemies for me," he said in an interview. "How
can they be? I am a writer living in the 21st century. A solution to
Nagorno-Karabakh is being delayed, and hostility is growing between
the two nations. I want to contribute to a peaceful solution."
He added that he was shocked by the ferocity of the reaction. "I did
not say anything insulting, I did not betray my country," he said. "I
describe how an Azerbaijani helps an Armenian. What is bad about this?"
Qan Turali, a popular novelist, said he saw the book's artistic merit
but believed that Mr. Eylisli had chosen the wrong time to publish
a book portraying Armenians in a positive light.
Posted 06 February 2013 - 10:56 AM
Wife and son of Ekrem Eylisli, who wrote a book about massacre of Armenians in Azerbaijan, are dismissed from their jobs
Son of Azerbaijani national writer Ekrem Eylisli, the author of the book "Stone Dreams" which is about the massacres of the Armenians in Azerbaijan, was dismissed today. Eylisli confirmed the information about dismissing his son from his position. Besides, the writer stated that the issue of dismissing his wife, Galina Alexandrovna, is being discussed. The latter is the director of Central Library, the Azerbaijani news site Haqqin.az reports.
"Information was received from reliable sources that the son of Azerbaijani national writer Ekrem Eylisli was dismissed today from his position in the Customs Committee," the Haqqin.az reported earlier.
According to the site, he was the Chief of the Main Department for Financial Tariffs and Currency Control of the State Customs Committee of Azerbaijan Republic and Currency Control of the State Customs Committee and was titles as Lieutenant-Colonel. In addition, as the site notes, the writer had to leave his country cottage, provided by the state.
Ekrem Eylisli is national writer and Honored Artist of Azerbaijan, holder of the highest order of Azerbaijan "Istiglal" (2002) and the order of "Shokhrat" for his outstanding merits in the literature of Azerbaijan. Recently, on the website of Russian magazine "Friendship of Nations" was published his novel titled "Stone Dreams" in which the author describes the massacres of Armenians in Baku in 1990 and in Nakhichevan in 1919. The author in his novel speaks positively about the Armenian people and their culture.
After the publication of the novel, Eylisli was exposed to severe pressures in Azerbaijan; the pro-governmental youth held rally next his home, his issue was discussed in the parliament of Azerbaijan, MPs suggested to burn his books and to deprive him of citizenship and deport from Azerbaijan. Many people "blamed" Eylisli in his Armenian origin, etc.
Source: Panorama.am
Posted 07 February 2013 - 09:56 AM
Ilham Aliyev deprives pensions and titles of national writer Ekrem Eylisli – author of ''Stone Dreams''
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev signed an order on Thursday to deprive Akram Aylisli's personal pension of the President of Azerbaijan, the Azerbaijani information agency "Trend" reports.
As Ilham Aliyev's decree said, the decision was accepted "taking into consideration numerous public appeals". The decree of Azerbaijani President says that the writer has "deliberately distorted the history of Azerbaijan in his work full of slander."
By another presidential order Ekrem Eylisli is deprived of the honorary title of the "National Writer." Eylisli is accused of "abusing the high confidence of the people towards him, distorting the realities connected with the history of Azerbaijan in a way which is inappropriate to Azerbaijani writer."
Eylisli himself, commenting on the decision of the President of Azerbaijan told the "Turan" news agency saying: "I am ssorry for such decisions that are being taken in the State the Constitution of which guarantees freedom of speech. I have no wish to talk about it anymore."
Ekrem Eylisli is national writer and Honored Artist of Azerbaijan, holder of the highest order of Azerbaijan "Istiglal" (2002) and the order of "Shokhrat" for his outstanding merits in the literature of Azerbaijan. Recently, on the website of Russian magazine "Friendship of Nations" was published his novel titled "Stone Dreams" in which the author describes the massacres of Armenians in Baku in 1990 and in Nakhichevan in 1919. The author in his novel speaks positively about the Armenian people and their culture.
After the publication of the novel, Eylisli was exposed to severe pressures in Azerbaijan; the pro-governmental youth held rally next his home, his issue was discussed in the parliament of Azerbaijan, MPs suggested to burn his books and to deprive him of citizenship and deport from Azerbaijan. Many people "blamed" Eylisli in his Armenian origin, etc.
Source: Panorama.am
Posted 07 February 2013 - 11:26 AM
Wed, 02/06/2013 - 17:56
"The publications in the mass media that I have left the country
or plan to do so, is a provocation and a fairy tale. I am not going
to do that"-the famous Azerbaijani writer Akram Aylisli said in the
interview to the "Turan" agency.
At the same time he confirmed the information that his wife and son
were fired from work.
The son of the writer is a coronel-general of the tax service, and
has been serving in the position of the head in one of the financial
department of state tax servicefor the last 12 years.
And his wife for many years was the director of the Nazim Hikmet
library in the Sabailian region of Baku.
"This everything is being done to put a pressure on me. This is a
revenge for my "Stone dreams" novel"-said the writer.
"Stone Dreams" is the second part of the trilogy published by him. The
first part called "Yemen" was published back in 1990. The third part
of the trilogy "The Huge Plug" is not published yet. "I disseminated
30 copies of the manuscript to my literary critic colleagueÕ½ and I'm
waiting for their opinion; I plan to review the work. After that the
book will be published"- said the writer without telling about the
content of the book.
It should be noted that the novel of the writer -"The Stone dream"-
caused a stir in Azerbaijan and the writer is accused of being
pro-Armenian, anti-Azerbaijaniposition. The book represents
the thoughts and reflections of Baku intellectuals about the
Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict and relations between the two nations.
Author: Factinfo
Posted 08 February 2013 - 09:13 AM
Ekrem Eylisli urges foreign diplomats to read the book for which he is subjected to harassment by Azerbaijani authorities
Deprived of personal pension of the President of Azerbaijan and the honorary title of "National Writer" the Azerbaijani writer, author of the novel "Stone Dreams" Ekrem Eylisly appealed to foreign diplomatic missions in that country with a call to read his work because of which he is being subjected to harassment by the authorities of the country, Azerbaijani news agency "Turan" reports.
"For more than two weeks, the subsidiary media of Azerbaijani authorities hold a moral terror campaign against me because of my novel "Stone Dreams". Uncoordinated mass actions are being held in front of my house, my books are being burnt, an unjust pressure is being put on my family members," Eylisli's statement reads.
According to Eylisli this is an unprecedented event in the social life of Azerbaijan during the last 100 years and he has no doubt that it is being carried out by the authorities. "I consider this as an unprecedented example of intolerance towards freedom of speech and expression by the power-holding structures," Eylisli notes.
In this connection, the writer refers to the foreign diplomatic missions in Azerbaijan – Embassies of U.S., UK, Germany, France, Russia, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Austria, Netherlands, Belgium and other countries, as well as to the EU, the OSCE and the Council of Europe and asks to read his novel and to express their attitude towards it.
Ekrem Eylisli is national writer (since 1998) and Honored Artist of Azerbaijan, holder of the highest order of Azerbaijan "Istiglal" (2002) and the order of "Shokhrat" for his outstanding merits in Azerbaijani literature. Recently, on the website of Russian magazine "Friendship of Nations" was published his novel titled "Stone Dreams" in which the author describes the massacres of Armenians in Baku in 1990 and in Nakhichevan in 1919. The author in his novel speaks positively about the Armenian people and their culture.
After the publication of the novel, Eylisli was exposed to severe pressures in Azerbaijan; the pro-governmental youth held rally next his home, his issue was discussed in the parliament of Azerbaijan, MPs suggested to burn his books and to deprive him of citizenship and deport from Azerbaijan. Many people "blamed" Eylisli in his Armenian origin, etc.
Source: Panorama.am
Posted 08 February 2013 - 09:59 AM
Akram Aylisli
Azerbaijan's Orhan Pamuk
An accomplished author in Azerbaijan has raised a storm of criticism
with a new novel that casts the country's traditional rival, Armenia,
in a sympathetic light.
By RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service
February 07, 2013
BAKU -- Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has stripped a prominent
novelist of the title of "People's Writer," as well as his
presidentially awarded pension.
Azerbaijani media reported on February 7 that the actions were taken
against Akram Aylisli because of his novel "Stone Dreams," which was
printed in a popular Russian magazine last year.
The novel describes sensitive issues in relations between Azerbaijan
and Armenia.
It focuses on Nagorno-Karabakh, the mostly Armenian-populated region
that broke away from Azerbaijan in the early 1990s.
Azerbaijani media quoted Aliyev's decree, which said Aylisli was
punished "for distorting facts in Azerbaijani history and insulting
the feelings of Azerbaijani people."
Aylisli told RFE/RL the presidential decision was "unexpected" because
his title and pension were awarded to him for his other works in
the past.
Posted 09 February 2013 - 10:57 AM
Friday, February 8, 12:51
"For more than two weeks, the media controlled by Azerbaijani
authorities has led a campaign of moral terror against me because of my
novel 'Stone Dreams'. All this is taking place on a scenario possible
only in 1930s. People having no idea of my novel speak against me as
they were told to do that. I was born in 1937 and I am well aware
what was happening then. It seems to me that something similar is
happening to me now", Azerbaijani writer and author of the novel
"Stone Dreams" Akram Aylisli told Golos Rossii newspaper.
President Ilham Aliyev signed an order to deprive writer Akram Aylisli
of the title "People's Writer" and personal pension of the President
of the Azerbaijan Republic, overnight. The authorities of Azerbaijan
with participation of the TV Channels, parliament and politicians have
launched a campaign of harassment against the writer Akram Aylisli
for his novel "Stone Dreams." The novel by Aylisli caused a negative
reaction, and caused a non-ethical campaign of pressure on the writer
and his family.
The writer says that his novel aims to tell everyone that Armenians
and Azerbaijanis can co-exist. "They should read my novel to
understand that there is nothing to punish me for. I am suffering
for my people. They say I have allegedly introduced my people as
aggressive and bellicose. But it is an absurd. I did everything on the
opposite. Azerbaijanis want peace. The novel starts with a situation
when an Azerbaijani tries to save an old Armenian from being killed.
How can such a novel insult and humiliate the Azerbaijan people?"
Aylisli told the newspaper.
"Then follows a chain of thoughts about what happened before and how
we could avoid that. The novel tells about nothing except an emotional
and vulnerable man that found himself in a very hard situation. But
he had strong heart and strong belief and fought for human ideals.
Persecution against a writer for such novel is not normal. Our ordinary
citizens say that we can live together with Armenians. While official
authorities are stirring up hatred. This novel is against official
policy that organizes persecutions against my peaceful creative ideas
aimed at rapprochement of our peoples. They do not do what they should
do," the Azerbaijani writer said.
Posted 09 February 2013 - 10:59 AM
Friday, February 8, 12:40
Tolerant Azerbaijan's president-for-life Ilham Aliyev has signed an
order to deprive writer Akram Aylisli of the title "People's Writer"
and personal pension of the President of the Azerbaijan Republic.
The President's instruction noted that "Aylisli abused the high
confidence rendered him in the years of independence, and claims that
Aylisli distorted in his work the realities of Azerbaijan history in
a form not befitting an Azerbaijani writer."
According to the President's instruction, "Aylisli tried to build
an anti-humanist image of the Azerbaijani people, wrongly accused
him of action against human values, falsified the nature of the
Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict, blackened the distant and recent history
of Azerbaijan, and offended the dignity of one million Azerbaijanis
expelled from their native lands as a result of the conflict."
The authorities of Azerbaijan with participation of the TV Channels,
parliament and politicians have launched a campaign of harassment
against the writer Akram Aylisli for his novel "Stone Dreams."
The novel by Aylisli caused a negative reaction, and caused a
non-ethical campaign of pressure on the writer and his family. His
wife and son were dismissed from their positions. Even the State
Dramatic Theater has refused to stage Aylisli's novel.
Posted 09 February 2013 - 11:10 AM
15:48, 8 February, 2013
YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 8, ARMENPRESS: Mass persecutions initiated by the
Azerbaijani authorities against Azerbaijani writer, novelist, author of
"Stone Dreams" novel on the massacre of the Armenians in Azerbaijan,
are seeking to politicize the literature.
"The country and environment the author is living and working in is
too unfavorable for creating suchlike literature pieces" the head of
Writers' Union of Armenia Levon Ananyan told Armenpress. According to
Ananyan the patriotic writer succeeded to express two decades dating
anguish in his book.
"Stone Dreams" novel is a call targeted to humanity, tolerance and
harmony. What happened is a challenge against the regional and balanced
development of the world. The step by Azerbaijani authorities should
be condemned" the head of Writers' Union of Armenia noted. In his
words Azerbaijani authorities' intolerance is a political persecution.
Among other things Levon Ananyan noted: "Reportedly this is not the
first time the Azerbaijani authorities are manifesting intolerance
against the writers."
Posted 09 February 2013 - 11:36 AM
ISTANBUL - Hurriyet Daily News
In his latest novel, Azerbaijani writer Akram Aylisli depicts
Azerbaijani and Armenian friendship, yet due to the content he is
the target of attacks
'Those, who discuss my identity that I have no Armenian origin,'
says Azerbaijani novelist Akram Aylisli as for attackers against his
identity because of his novel.
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Famed Azerbaijani novelist Akram Aylisli has become the target of
attacks both from the state and the public after the release of his
latest novel, "Stone Dreams," which depicts Azerbaijani-Armenian
friendship through its protagonists. A symbolic DNA test will be made
today in Baku to prove if Aylisli is Armenian or not.
A group of angry people gathered in front of the 76-year-old writer's
house, painted a cross on Aylisli's photos and burned them, shouting
slogans such as, "Traitor, shame on you!"
Aylisli was the recipient of many national and international awards,
and was also declared "Azerbaijani National Writer" in 1987, but
President Ä°lham Aliyev stripped him of all his national honors
yesterday -- a first in the Caspian country's history. Aylisli also
now faces denaturalization.
Speaking to Hurriyet Daily News through e-mail regarding the events,
Aylisli said that he saw similar attacks in the Soviet era. "But I
have never seen anything like this. All these things are one of the
worst forms of the Soviet Union ideology. They are carrying out a
spiritual terror campaign against me. They even attack my family."
"Those, who discuss my identity know that I have no Armenian origin,"
Aylisli said of the DNA test. "I once again say that this is a
spiritual terror campaign. Nobody can speak about my spirituality and
morals." When asked about human rights and freedom of expression in
Azerbaijan, he said, "In a country where a famous artist gets into
that much trouble, it doesn't make sense to speak about human rights.
They try to silence people of opposing views and enjoy it while
doing it."
"The main goal of the novel is to call for Armenians and Turks to
live together," Aylisli said, adding that his novels had nothing to
do with politics.
'A route for peace should be sought'
According to Aylisli, the novel begins with an incident. "Ten to 15
young Azerbaijanis exiled from Armenia reach Azerbaijan's capital,
Baku, where they encounter an old Armenian man, take of his clothes
and beat and throw him into a pool. A famous Azerbaijani artist sees
the incident and tries to help the old man. The young Azerbaijani
men also start to beat him up. The incidents after this event take
place in the inner world of the artist," he said.
The book explores the artist's village, where he grew up, his childhood
and personal life.
The novel takes place in 1919 and discusses the Armenian massacre and
incidents of 1915 and the resultant suffering, Aylisli said, adding
that once upon a time Azerbaijanis and Armenians lived happily and
in peace, and that they should endeavor to live in peace again.
According to Aylisli, the hatred should end between the two nations
and the Montenegro agreements can also be solved peacefully.
"The representatives should search for ways to make the two nations
live in harmony. My book is just a message. It is a message from a
writer and an intellectual," Aylisli said.
Born in1937 in an Azerbaijani village in Ordubad's Yukhari, Aylisli
went on to write novels that have been translated into a variety
of languages and published in several countries. In the meantime,
Aylisli's son Necef Naibov, who is working for the Ministry of Customs,
and his library director wife Galina Aleksandrovna, were fired from
their jobs. A summer house, which was gifted to the famous writer by
the state, was also taken from him.
Posted 12 February 2013 - 09:36 AM
''Kultura.az'': Have you ever wondered why they think Azerbaijanis are like people from Stone Age?
"Ekrem Eylisli needs to run away," wrote Lala Ismailzade on "Kultura.az" site in the article about baiting the author of the novel "Stone Dreams". She wonders whether it is possible for the crowd living in authoritarian regime be tolerant with dissenting opinions.
"Today, the school principals hold meetings as if they are one, propagating Ekrem Eylisli's as "traitor of the fatherland." They say that such "meetings of the Bureau" used to took place under Stalin regime as well," the author writes, and notes that one of the Azerbaijani TV channels called on taking away Eyylisli's all property and give to immigrants, apparently hoping to solve the problem of the poor Azerbaijanis by the property of the writer.
According to the author, Azerbaijan has two ways. First is to destroy all dissent writers who criticized the Azerbaijani society, and obliterate any positive references about the Armenians. "What did Sabir write about the Azerbaijani? I fear whenever I see a Muslim. You see, he's not afraid of Armenian but a Muslim. After his death Armenians collected money for publication of his poems and helped," notes the author and adds that by this logic, it is necessary to erase from the history of Azerbaijan Mirza Fatali Akhundov as well, because one of the characters in his comedy "Haji Gara" who is a lazybones recognizes that he is not Armenian to work all day with a hack in his hands.
Akhundzadeh in this play describes the Azerbaijanis as troublesome people and thieves. He describes Ohan, Sargis and other Armenians as law-abiding and virtuous people. "And what would they suggest? To put the works of Akhundzadeh in a coffin and to bury it?," the author says.
"The second way is to understand why, in spite of our economic strength, we are not respect in the world? Have you ever thought why the Azerbaijanis are considered people from the Stone Age? The generation that is presents us in the world culture is dying out, it's not going to live forever. And in their place a generation of RABIS music is coming, with a hatchet in their hands, and famed by the trade of potatoes and onions. What should we do? Should we rally around the ax and destroy our cultural monuments, or should we respect freedom of speech and try to present a civilized society?" the author says.
Source: Panorama.am
Posted 12 February 2013 - 10:18 AM
Monday, February 11, 12:42
Akram Aylisli has already become our Ohran Pamuk, Arif Yunusov, Head
of the Department for Conflicts and Migration, peace and Democracy
Institute (Baku), said in an interview with ArmInfo, when commenting
on persecutions against Azerbaijani writer Akram Aylisli.
To recall, President Ilham Aliyev signed an order to deprive writer
Akram Aylisli of the title "People's Writer" and personal pension of
the President of the Azerbaijan Republic, overnight. The authorities
of Azerbaijan with participation of the TV Channels, parliament and
politicians have launched a campaign of harassment against the writer
Akram Aylisli for his novel "Stone Dreams." The novel by Aylisli
caused a negative reaction, and caused a non-ethical campaign of
pressure on the writer and his family.
"I know Aylisli personally, and judging by his words he wrote that
novel yet in 90s, but he had been constantly working on it changing
it, adding or removing something. He completed the work yet in 2006,
but did not publish. He was recently asked from Moscow to submit
something for publishing, as they had not published his works for a
long time already. So, Akram quickly translated the novel and sent it
to Moscow. He admits that he did not wait such a hot response. As a
writer he supposed that some people would disagree with him and there
may be hot debates, but not beyond the bounds of decency. What has
happened in our country was really unexpected for him," Yunusov said.
As regards the talks that Aylisli allegedly claims the Nobel Prize and
laurels of Ohran Pamuk, Yunusov called them fiction. "He wrote what
he considered necessary for him. Yet in 90s he talked to me on that
topic. So, there was nothing new for me and I was ready to everything
we can observe in Azerbaijan now," the Azerbaijani expert said. Orhan
Pamuk is a Turkish novelist, screenwriter, academic and recipient of
the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is widely known for his civil
position on the Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey, which does not
coincide with the official position of the Turkish authorities.
Posted 12 February 2013 - 10:29 AM
An Azerbaijani opposition party has offered money for the ear of a
respected writer who recently faced a sharp criticism for remarks
about the Azerbaijani-Armenians in one of his novels.
The leaders of the Modern Musavat party have promised a bonus of
10,000 Manats (approx. $13,000) for anyone who will agree to cut the
ear of Akram Aylisli.
"We held discussions last week and decided to offer a bonus for having
Aylisli's ear cut," the head of the party, Hafiz Hajiev, has said,
according to the Azerbaijani news agency Turan.
He described Aylisli's novel, Stone Dreams, as an insult to the
Azerbaijani nation.
"Whatever punishment is awarded to the author, it will be too little.
It is necessary to cut his ear. Members of the party's youth wing
have been instructed to carry this decision into practice. The one
who executes the decision will get 10,000 Manats," Hajiev was quoted
as saying.
But Contact.az reports that the Azerbaijani law enforcers have not
yet responded to the call.
Aylisli novel, published in 2012, was dedicated to the Armenians of
Soviet Azerbaijan. "I dedicate this to the memory of my compatriots
who left behind a big grief," the writer said in the preface.
The main heroes are the Azerbaijanis of Agulis (a village in the
south of Nakhicevan), who tried to help Armenians during the late
1980's and early 1990's pogrom of Sumgait and Baku.
The novel caused Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev to strip Aylisli
of the People's Writer title and nominal pension. His son and wife
were sacked from office weeks before.
Azerbaijani writers had earlier asked the president to revoke Aylisli's
citizenship and send him to Armenia.
Posted 12 February 2013 - 11:06 AM
12:46, February 12, 2013
Human Rights Watch has called on the Azerbaijan government to end
its campaign of intimidation against Akram Aylisli, who has written
a controversial book regarding relations between Armenians and
Azerbaijanis in Azerbaijan.
Aylisli, a member of the Union of Writers of Azerbaijan, is the
author of Stone Dreams. The novel includes a account of violence by
ethnic Azeris against Armenians during the 1920s, and at the end of
the Soviet era, when the two countries engaged in armed conflict.
"Azerbaijan's authorities should immediately investigate and hold
accountable anyone responsible for making threats against Aylisli,
and ensure his personal safety," stated Hugh Williamson, Europe
and Central Asia director at Human Rights Watch in a statement the
organization released today.
Aylisli told Human Rights Watch that he saw the novel as an appeal
for friendship between the two nations. The novel was published in
Friendship of Peoples, a Russian literary journal, in December 2012.
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Results First Posted : August 15, 2016
Last Update Posted : June 1, 2017
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Mild traumatic brain injuries (mTBI) or "concussions" are an increasingly prevalent injury in our society. Patients with post-concussion syndrome have been shown to have deficits on tests of short term memory, divided attention, multi-tasking, information processing speed, and reaction time, as well as alteration in mood and emotional functioning. Many patients have other vague complaints including fatigue, dizziness, irritability, sleep disturbances, and chronic headaches. Furthermore, sleep disruption of one of the most common complaints in patients suffering from traumatic brain injuries, with as many as 40 to 65% of patients with mTBI complaining of insomnia. Sleep problems in these patients are associated with poorer outcome, while resolution of the sleep disturbance is associated with improvement in cognitive functioning.
Despite recent evidence of the correlation between sleep quality and recovery from traumatic brain injury, and the well-established role of sleep in neural plasticity and neurogenesis, there have been virtually no direct studies of the causal effects of sleep on recovery following mTBI. However, it is quite likely that sleep plays a critical role in recovery following brain injury.
A particularly promising non-pharmacologic approach that shows potential in improving/modifying abnormalities of the circadian rhythm and sleep-wake schedule is bright light therapy. For the proposed investigation, we hypothesize that bright light therapy may be helpful in improving the sleep of patients with a recent history of mTBI and may also have other mood elevating effects, both of which should promote positive treatment outcome in these individuals. Bright light therapy may increase the likelihood that they will recover more quickly, benefit more extensively from other forms of therapy, and build emotional and cognitive resilience.
|Condition or disease
|Concussion, Mild Post-Concussion Symptoms Sleep Problems
|Device: wavelength-1 bright light Device: wavelength-2 bright light
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|Effects of Bright Light Therapy of Sleep, Cognition, Brain Function, and Neurochemistry in Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
|Study Start Date :
|December 2010
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|December 2013
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|December 2013
Experimental: wavelength-1 bright light
30 minutes daily light exposure for 6 weeks
Device: wavelength-1 bright light
6 weeks of daily light exposure, 30 minutes per morning
Other Name: Philips goLITE energy light
Placebo Comparator: wavelength-2 bright light
30 minutes daily light exposure for 6 weeks
Device: wavelength-2 bright light
6 weeks of daily light exposure, 30 minutes per morning
Other Name: Philips goLITE energy light
- Performance on Multiple Sleep Latency Test (MSLT) [ Time Frame: Change from baseline performance at 6 weeks (post-treatment) ]The MSLT is a objective measure of sleepiness. Participants will take a brief nap 3 times during the 1st and second visit. The period of time between wake and sleep onset will be utilized as an objective measure of sleepiness (in minutes). A mean value will be calculated for the entirety of the pre-treatment napping periods and for the post treatment visits.
- Neural Activation During Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) Executive Function Task [ Time Frame: Change from baseline performance at 6 weeks (post-treatment) ]Change from baseline in left prefrontal cortical response during a multi source interference task at six weeks. Methods utilized to assess activity in the left prefrontal cortex/inferior frontal operculum included a regions of interest analysis.
- Score on Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) [ Time Frame: Change from baseline at 6 weeks (post-treatment) ]The Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index is a self report measure of sleep quality. The overall score takes into account many different facets of sleep, such as sleep quality, sleep latency, sleep duration, sleep disturbances, etc. The scores range from 0-21, and any score that is equal to or greater than 5 is indicative of poor sleep quality.
- Actigraphy-measured Sleep Quality [ Time Frame: Change from baseline at 6 weeks (post-treatment) ]Actigraphy is an objective measure that determines sleep vs. wake. It is a watch with an accelerometer worn on the wrist. Sleep quality is determined by the amount of time in bed divided by the amount of time sleeping (in minutes).
- Performance on Neuropsychological Assessment [ Time Frame: Change from baseline at 6 weeks (post-treatment) ]The Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status (RBANS) is a neuropsychological assessment that measures different facets of memory including the following: immediate memory, visuospatial/constructional, language, attention, and delayed memory. This is given to all participants on both pre and post treatment visits. The total range for this scale is 40-160. Lower values represent a worse outcome, and higher values represent an improved outcome.
- Change From Baseline in Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II) Scores at 6 Weeks [ Time Frame: Change from baseline at 6 weeks (post-treatment) ]The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II) is a self report scale utilized for measuring the severity of depression. Scores can range from 0-63 (0 meaning minimal depressive symptoms, and 63 being severe depressive symptoms). Participants are given this on baseline and post treatment.
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Inclusion Criteria:
- Age range between 18 and 50.
- Subjects must be right handed.
- The primary language of the subjects must be English.
- Subjects have experienced a "concussion" or mTBI within the preceding 18 months, but no sooner that 4 weeks prior to their screening. The occurrence of a concussion or mTBI must be documented by a medical report or other professional witness documentation.
- If documented, Glasgow Coma Scale in the range of 13-15 following the injury.
- Subjects must have complaints of sleep difficulties that emerged or worsened following the most recent head injury.
- At least half of subjects must have evidence of sleep onset insomnia or delayed sleep phase disorder.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Any other history of neurological illness, current Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-IV) Axis I disorder, lifetime history of psychotic disorder, or head injury with loss of consciousness > 30 minutes
- Complicating medical conditions that may influence the outcome of neuropsychological assessment or functional imaging (e.g., HIV, brain tumor, etc.)
- Mixed or left-handedness
- Abnormal visual acuity that is not corrected by contact lenses
- Contraindicated conditions noted by the manufacture of the light device such as the use of photosynthesizing medications, history of cataract surgery, and pre-existing eye conditions.
- Metal within the body, claustrophobia, or other contraindications for neuroimaging
- Less than 9th grade education
- Excess current alcohol use (more than 2 instances of intake of 5+ drinks (men) when or 4+ drinks (women) when drinking in the past two months, and/or on average drinking > 2 drinks per day (men); > 1 drinks per day (women) during the past two months
- History of alcoholism or substance use disorder
- Significant use of illicit drugs
- History of marijuana use within the past 6 weeks, use of marijuana before the age of 16, and/or use of > 20 marijuana cigarettes throughout the participant's lifetime.
- Subjects who engage in shift-work, night work, or who have substantially desynchronized work-sleep schedules (i.e., sleeping later than 10:00 a.m. more than once a week) will be excluded
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01747811
|United States, Arizona
|University of Arizona Medical Center
|Tucson, Arizona, United States, 85724
|Principal Investigator:
|William D Killgore, PhD
|University of Arizona
|Responsible Party:
|William D. Killgore, Professor, University of Arizona
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|First Posted:
|December 12, 2012 Key Record Dates
|Results First Posted:
|August 15, 2016
|Last Update Posted:
|June 1, 2017
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The 700MHz auction rules have now been announced, and even though the fine print is not yet available, companies have started to weigh in. While it's no secret that incumbent telcos plan to bid on the newly-available spectrum, consumer groups are far more interested about what nonincumbents such as Google might do—and Google has provided a partial answer to that question: they're going to fight.
Google didn't get all that it wanted from the auction. It had earlier pledged to bid at least $4.6 billion if the FCC slapped four open access requirements on the available spectrum; the agency chose to apply only two. Whoever wins the largest 22MHz block of spectrum will need to run a network that is open to any safe device and to any application (the other 40 MHz will be auctioned off in smaller blocks and by region, and does not feature the same rules). But Google never said that it wouldn't bid if its wish list wasn't fulfilled, and the multibillion dollar question on everyone's mind is: will Google, or won't it?
Richard Whitt, Google's telecom and media counsel, called the new rules "real, if incomplete, progress," and then took a swipe at the traditional phone companies. "None of us like how the current system locks you into wireless service plans that limit the kind of phone or PDA you can use, prevent you from downloading and using the software of your choice, and charge you hefty termination fees if you try to get out," he wrote. "And it's hard to ignore how the existing wireless carriers talk a good game about the virtues of the free market, but prefer to keep us stuck in their closed market. Today the FCC took some concrete steps on the road to bringing greater choice and competition to all Americans."
But despite praising the moves by the FCC, Google was careful not to commit to anything until the actual text of the rules is released in several weeks and it can scrutinize the fine print. Only then can the company "make any definitive decisions about our possible participation in the auction." Still, the tone of the response is positive and gives no indication that Google is so dissatisfied with the auction rules that it plans to sit on the sidelines. Getting into a bidding war with companies like Verizon and AT&T is probably not high on any shareholder's list of things that she wants to see happen at Google, but the company is sitting on a mountain of cash, and the auction represents a perfect chance to show how "not evil" it truly is.
Buying the spectrum, rolling out a robust nationwide network, and reselling bandwidth at wholesale rates to any interested company would allow Google to make all four of its open access principles a reality, and could well unleash a new wave of wireless innovation. And it could do without requiring the government to get involved in setting the wholesale rules and rates. The biggest obstacle may prove to be incumbents who could choose to place "blocking bids" to keep new competition out of the market.
When it comes to the public/private partnership that will build a national wireless network for public safety and commercial users, at least two new consortia have expressed interest in bidding for and implementing such a network. Both Frontline Wireless (backed by a former FCC commissioner) and Cyren Call hope to be the commercial licensee who builds and maintains the network. Whatever bandwidth is not being used by public safety system can be sold off for commercial services.
Cyren Call (Siren Call, get it?) said that the FCC's decision to make this new network a public/private partnership "represents the most significant step forward in providing the critical communications tools desperately needed by public safety." Frontline's CEO, Haynes Griffin, said in a statement that "in the wake of the FCC's decision, we can roll up our sleeves and get to work building the business of our dreams."
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In That Holy Place (New Era)
1.Holy temple, hallowed walls, filled with heaven's light,
Where the spirit teaches truth and testifies of Christ.
There within that holy place our hearts are made as one,
United by the pow'r of God to pure enternal love.
2. Holy temple where we learn creation's grand design,
Where our souls will be endowed with power from on high
There we kneel, our hearts prepared, to cov'nant with out Lord,
And there His spirit binds our lives in love forevermore.
3. Holy temple where we bless our loved ones gone before,
Where eternal ties are sealed by sacred priesthood pow'r.
There we turn out hearts to those who gave us life and birth.
How beautiful that holy place where heaven dwells on earth.
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Since taking office in early 2006 as Africa's first elected woman president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has become a prominent leader in a tough job. A quarter-century of political turmoil, including 14 years of conflict that displaced three-quarters of its people and killed an estimated 250,000, left Liberia without infrastructure – no electricity or water services and few roads, schools or medical facilities.
Despite global recession, economic recovery is visible everywhere, but the challenges are enormous, and a United Nations peacekeeping mission is expected to remain in place, at least until after national elections in October.
Interviewed recently by AllAfrica's Boakai Fofana, Reed Kramer and Tami Hultman, President Sirleaf cited progress and discussed plans.
You often talk about Liberian children smiling again, yet you express deep concern about the rate of child mortality and other issues that affect children
I'm glad to see the children indeed are smiling again. As I go around the country and I see them back in school, that pleases me so much.
Because of limited health facilities, particularly in the rural areas, child mortality has been quite high. But it has been coming down. Immunisation has been very successful. That means we will have many more children who will live, many more children who will go to school and many more children who will smile again.
As you travel around the country, what are the main things people tell you they want from their government?
First of all, peace. They want to make sure that the stability we have enjoyed for the past nine years will continue and that they will see no more conflict in the country.
The other thing they want most is mobility, particularly in the form of roads. We have stressed the priorities of education and health but, as they say, if you don't have the roads to enable the kids to go to school, or to enable them to get to clinics, then having those facilities will not bring them maximum use. So we've put a lot of emphasis on the construction of roads – primary roads as well as secondary roads.
People also talk a lot about the health problems caused by a lack of latrines
We haven't done enough about sanitation, particularly where you have overcrowding in urban areas. It has become more noticeable and more of a health problem, as you correctly said. Clean water, latrine facilities in communities, is something we have started to place emphasis on that's going to make a big impact on the quality of health.
What things has your administration been getting right?
There's been a sharp reduction in child mortality. Maternal mortality still remains high, because you don't have enough clinics; they have to rely on the traditional methods – midwifery. We've been trying to train the midwives to give better treatment. But, again, when the roads are fixed, it makes it easier to get to the hospital.
Going around the country before, there were certain places where I would have to take a canoe to cross the river. Today there's a bridge in most of those places, and I can drive there, although roads are not as good as they should be, and certainly we've got to build many more roads.
We've seen a big increase in education. Enrollment has shot up so much – a 40% increased enrollment in the public schools, and most of them are girls. By enforcing compulsory primary education; by making sure, through the World Food programme, that kids get a lunch, a hot meal, while in school; by giving free uniforms – that has brought up the school population.
Now the constraints are – we don't have enough teachers. We're concentrating on teacher training institutes, and we've reactivated all three of them. The Peace Corps is back – and strictly involved now in teacher training, because that's our greatest need.
The statistics are there. We're very pleased with the progress, although the challenges still remain many. Everything we've done, we've still got much more to do.
We've been hearing some concerns – from both businesses and development experts – that institutions of higher education aren't producing enough scientists, that a large majority are studying social sciences
The number of graduates coming out in sociology, political science – our message to them now is: if we're going to support a scholarship programme and provide subsidies, they have to go into areas that have been neglected. Most of the mining concessions are now giving scholarships to people to study engineering, geology. The agriculture concessions are giving scholarships to study agriculture.
So the shift is starting, by our action of giving support to those who will study those disciplines. We have a lot of foreign scholarships, and in those areas we are stressing medical doctors, engineers, scientists. It will take a while.
And then there is the challenge – what do we do with all of those political science graduates, sociology graduates? We're encouraging some to be retrained, using the basic education that they have, but shifting to a more specialised area that will enable them to broaden their professional options.
But what about the fact that chemistry classes don't have labs and computer classes don't have enough computers?
The more schools you open, the less capable you are to equip them properly. We've been working with some partners to get science and lab equipment. We're just clearing the ports now with a gift of equipment that came from India – science labs that will be placed in high schools. Even sufficient books are things we have to continue to work on. This is like starting from scratch and rebuilding a nation from one that was a virgin state, but we've had good partners who have worked with us on this.
In your first election campaign, you promised to restore electricity to a country that had none. What has happened to that goal?
It's been slow. Capacity is one of the issues.
First of all, we started off with what we promised. We said that we were going to bring electricity back in six months. We didn't say we were going to electrify the country in six months! We brought it back through the introduction of street lights, where street lights have been missing for two decades. We're happy with the response – children dancing in the streets, studying under the street lights.
Since then we've been trying to expand, but building power is a high capital cost, something which our budget couldn't afford. So we've been working with partners, adding new units. All the new units are thermal units; they use fuel oil, and the rising price of petroleum is a constraint. But we have gone from zero to about 21 megawatts – not enough, but we should be electrifying many of the communities in the Monrovia area by the end of this month.
The most cost-efficient means of power is to rehab and expand our hydro facilities, but the capital costs are high. To do what we want is $300m – more than two times the size of our [annual] budget! So we want to also bring in the private sector and see if we can, through independent power producers, restore some power, and we are now working actively with partners to get some work done on the hydro.
Why haven't you borrowed funds to restore hydroelectric capacity? The St Paul River alone is capable of generating enough power that you could export some and earn revenues – while combating climate change, as you've said you want to do
Liberia could not borrow. We had a $4.9bn external debt that had not been serviced for 20 years, much of it representing accumulated interest.
That's why we put our emphasis on the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative, working with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank. I think Liberia has the record on that, that in three years we were able to reach the completion point on the HIPC. Right now we are signing bilateral agreements in which, under the Paris Club, we got a 100% waiver, again unprecedented – and now we are virtually debt-free. (I shouldn't say totally debt-free – there are little segments of debt.)
We're very proud about the commercial debt. Even though some of the "vulture" funds that were holding some of our debt took us to court, we were able, through moral suasion – through Bono and others who joined and put pressure on them – we settled for three cents on the dollar. All that commercial debt is gone.
Now we are able to borrow, but we must also be cautious. We have a supportive programme with the IMF in which we ourselves have said we will constrain ourselves; we don't want to see our country get into debt distress once again. We're limiting our borrowing to a certain percentage of GDP. So as the economy expands and grows and GDP increases, then our fiscal space to borrow will expand correspondingly. That way we will be sure that when we borrow, we have the capacity to repay.
With the election campaign off to an early start, you're getting a lot of praise, but there's also some very loud criticism. Does it worry you?
No it doesn't. I believe in an open society. I've promoted that here, to show people they have freedoms, of the constitution: freedom of speech, association, religion. So when they criticise, we take it in stride. If it's constructive and enables me to do better, to institute new measures, then I take it like that. If it's destructive, if it's someone in the opposition who wants something, then I just have a thick skin, I let it roll off.
One of the most frequent charges is that you're not doing much about corruption
We are doing much about corruption. It's just that corruption here is not a government problem. It's a country problem, a nation problem. It comes from 30 years of economic free fall, two decades of deprivation. It became a way of life. Our value system turned upside down in the country. So we have to approach it in a multifaceted way.
Yes, we can go and grab people and throw them in jail. That would have some effect, and you have to do that at some point. But you have to have better compensation. You can't pay someone $15 a month to go and do a job, when their revenue collector is collecting thousands a month. To reduce vulnerability, you give better compensation.
Everything here was done by discretion, centralised at the top. You have to introduce systems that will prevent misuse – and we've done that. We're computerising, we've come up with new accounting systems. You have to build institutions. We've done that, through a general auditing commission. It was a nothing body before.
We've put in new procurement laws. We have a Liberia anti-corruption commission; we're giving them enough teeth. We have the Extractive Industries Initiative. Liberia was the first African country to become compliant under that initiative. Those are the things we're doing that will make a permanent impact on the level of misuse of the public trust.
We remain still weak in the punishment area, the judicial system. We've taken cases to court that have stayed in the court for years. We've taken cases that have lost, even though we felt the evidence was overpowering. We have a jury system that we're trying to fix now, because it's so easy to bribe jurors here. And we allow public debate on this subject. Before you didn't dare talk about it; now we've exposed it.
We haven't done enough yet, we still must fight it. We even must fight it through education – introducing it in the schools, why integrity is an important part of growth and development, an important part of national credibility.
I say to everybody, we should all work at it – in our homes, in our institutions, in our parties, in our churches, we must all have a collective effort. We're making progress, I can tell you. But the problem has been so overwhelming, it's the one issue everyone hangs on to, it becomes a big national debate issue.
Transformation – how you change this mindset – it takes a while. There's no justification for corruption, we continue to fight it, vigorously. I'm just saying we should see it in context and fight it in context.
Jobs is another much-discussed issue. How are you doing with job creation?
We've created a lot of jobs, but we've said job creation will come largely from our private sector. The government was already bloated with people, people who had lack of capacity. We inherited all of this – warring factions, ex-combatants. Most of the trained minds left the country.
We started to do that now, creating jobs with the major concessions, in the mining, agriculture, forestry sectors. But the large pool of untrained young people – the war-affected youth – don't have the skills to be able to be absorbed quickly. So we're starting now to concentrate on vocational training, and we're trying to do more in that regard.
You know, the definition of the unemployed is a big issue here. As defined by the ILO [International Labour organization], if you're self-employed, you're employed. If you're doing petty trading, you're employed. But in our own mindset, you're only employed if you're sitting behind a desk!
We've been working with the ILO on the unemployment issue to get the right data and statistics. That study is now completed; they should be releasing it to show the numbers. So one will see that unemployment has come down considerably.
But unemployment does remain a challenge – that we know – until we can train young people, until we can improve upon their working conditions as traders and whatnot, and until the private sector really picks up the pace of its potential. Most of our agricultural concessions are very labour intensive. Some of them have plans to create up to 10,000 jobs over a period of time, but they're just getting started, so every year you'll see increases in the numbers.
You mentioned agricultural concessions. Are they already producing?
The agriculture concessions start with clearing land, with building nurseries. Their planting starts one year later, and then they keep growing every year and keep expanding. We have several of them that are starting their operations.
At the same time, we're trying, through small and medium size business support, to encourage Liberians to go into farming. Agriculture is the mainstay of our economy. It's hard work and the risks are high, and that's proved to be a deterrent for many people. But we want to encourage that so we can have food security here.
We ran into a young man studying agriculture through a scholarship. He said he plans to go home to Nimba county "to make a difference" but that most of his classmates think agriculture is a poor career choice. How do you combat that attitude?
By making agricultural success stories! This young man, when he goes back, we've got to find a way to support him. He ought to be one who'll stand up and say, "I went back, I made a farm, now I'm making money, now I can do the things I want to do." He can serve as an example.
Also, many people working with the agriculture concessions we've been able to attract from Asian countries. Their experience in agriculture is a little bit different from the western experience, because they're not as highly capital intensive. The people they are employing are developing an appreciation for agriculture, and I think they will pass it down to their children [who] see their fathers and mothers working.
And talking about fathers and mothers, most of the people working right now in the agriculture concessions are women. The [concessionaires] tell us that the women are much more attentive to how they take care of the plants. We have a large pool of unemployed women who do marketing, and this will provide another option for them.
How far is Liberia from food security?
Very far. Again, that's because during the periods of conflict, most of those who were farmers, for their safety, ran to the urban areas. The capital city, Monrovia, which was built to accommodate 350,000 people, now has 1.1 million! It's bursting at the seams.
Records are very clear that once people come to urban areas and benefit from the social amenities in those areas, they don't go back. So we'll have to create a whole new class of farmers from the rural population. We're hoping that with the opening of some of these large concessions, they'll create not only farming jobs, but management jobs and other technical, vocational jobs that will attract some people back to the farms. But a large number of them will remain [in the cities] and will not want to go into agriculture.
There has been international criticism of concessions, both agricultural and extractive, as taking too much from countries, while contributing little. Can Liberia avoid that pattern?
Every concession agreement that we've negotiated has in it corporate social responsibility; they have to do things in the communities in which they work. Schools, clinics, roads, housing – they are all required to do that, and most of them have indeed been doing this.
As a matter of fact, we renegotiated both the ArcelorMittal and the Firestone agreements, signed in 2005, just before this government came in. We renegotiated to make sure that the social benefits to the people were enhanced.
If you go to Firestone today – a company that was always in the courts for child labour, bad housing conditions – you will see a changed environment. We made them give us a five-year plan, which they did, for development. If you go there today, you will see new housing units, you will see the schools and the hospitals functioning. We're just glad that, in that spirit of cooperation, they have worked with us, recognising that this was something due to the Liberian people.


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BOSTON, Mass. – D3Baseball.com announced the inaugural 2012 All-Region teams and major award winners Friday afternoon. Earning a spot on the All-New England Third Team was relief pitcher Jeff Thomas (Redwood City, Calif.), marking the second postseason award of the year for the righty closer.
A total of 713 players were nominated by their respective Sports Information Directors. The ballots were voted on by SID's, the D3Baseball.com staff and contributors.
In his first season with the Beacons, Thomas tied the single-season saves record with five. He went on to finish the year with a 0.49 ERA and made a team-best 12 appearances. In a combined 18.1 innings of relief, the California native struck out 13 batters and allowed only three extra base hits. Thomas faced a total of 64 batters and held them to a mere .141 average. Of the four runs scored while Thomas was on the hill, only one was earned.


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The two teams will have vastly different memories of the championship series, but neutrals won't soon forget a Chicago's Game 6 comeback that saw two goals in 17.7 seconds — a wild sequence that started with less than 80 seconds remaining before a packed TD Garden on Monday night.
Bryan Bickell and Dave Bolland scored back-to-back as the Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup in dramatic fashion with an amazing 3-2 comeback victory over the Bruins.
"Nobody saw it coming," said Chicago coach Joel Quenneville.
Milan Lucic's third-period goal looked to have given the Bruins a 2-1 victory and a new lease of life in the final. A Game 7 on Wednesday in Chicago seemed next.
But with Chicago goalie Corey Crawford out for an extra attacker, Bickell tied it up at 18:44 after Jonathan Toews circled out of the corner when Boston was unable to clear the puck. With two teammates waiting for him in front of goal, Toews chose Bickell and the game was suddenly tied.
Bolland then won the Cup seconds after the puck drop, tucking in a rebound of a Johnny Oduya point shot that hit the goal-post. Bolland nipped between two defenders to redirect the puck in at 19:01 to stun the Bruins and previously raucous crowd.
"It's a tough way to lose, tough way to lose a game, tough way to lose a series," said Boston captain Zdeno Chara.
Even more so for a Bruins team that hoped to win a Cup for a city rocked by the Boston Marathon bombings in April, said coach Claude Julien.
"You know, at the end of the day, I think that's what hurts the most is in the back of our minds, although we needed to focus on our team and doing what was going to be the best thing for our team to win a Stanley Cup ... It hit close to home, and the best way we felt we could try and cheer the area was to win a Stanley Cup," he said.
"I think that's what's hard right now for the players. We had more reasons than just ourselves to win a Cup."
NHL commissioner Gary Bettman was once again booed after the game during the trophy presentations that saw Chicago sniper Patrick Kane win the Conn Smythe award as playoff MVP.
Toews, reduced to a spectator the final minutes of Game 5, added a goal and an assist as the Blackhawks clawed their way back into Monday's game. The captain was the first to hoist the Cup as his teammates jumped up and down on enemy ice.
Chicago's stars came through when it counted. And its depth showed against a Bruins side that was clearly hurting.
For Boston, it was a painful reminder of how it feels to be at the wrong end of a comeback. The Bruins had mounted a history-making three-goal charge in the third period of Game 7 against the Toronto Maple Leafs in the first round before winning in overtime.
"Sometimes they go your way and sometimes they don't. We've lived through both of them, so we know how it feels on both sides of it, winning and being the losers," said Julien, who was gracious in defeat.
Crawford finished with 23 saves in the victory that marked Chicago's fifth championship and second title in four years.
"That team in 2010, we didn't really know what we were doing," Toews said. "We played great hockey, and we were kind of oblivious to how good we were playing. This time around we know definitely how much work it takes and how much sacrifice it takes to get back here, and this is an unbelievable group.
"We've been through a lot together this year, and this is a sweet way to finish it off."
Added Quenneville: "It's always the greatest feeling in the world, so it can't be any better. So it's always a tie, and once you do it, you can't wait to do it again. The stories, the ups and downs and the process of trying to win a Cup, that's what makes it so special."
Chris Kelly had the other goal for Boston, while Tuukka Rask made 28 saves. The Bruins offence was limited by a power play that went 0-for-4 on the night.
Lucic had taken advantage of a Crawford handling error behind the goal to give the Bruins a 2-1 lead at 12:11. The bruising forward disrupted the Chicago goalie and when the puck came back in front from David Krejci in the corner, Lucic wristed it in.
The Bruins, who won the Stanley Cup in 2011, had their way with the Blackhawks in the first period, but only managed to turn that dominance into a 1-0 lead. Chicago rallied in the second to tie it up and make a contest out of it before completing the memorable comeback.
Tied 1-1 going into the third, the game was up for grabs. And the stakes were high, ratcheting up the pressure for the capacity crowd of 17,565 — Boston's 165th straight sellout.
It made for a fast-placed third period, with both teams getting chances in what felt like overtime. A lot of hearts were in throats as pucks flew through the crease or just missed sticks.
Both teams endured a bumpy ride to get to Game 6. There were question marks over the health of Chicago's Toews and Boston star Patrice Bergeron. It was revealed that Toews had his bell rung in Game 5, while Bergeron had a broken rib and cartilage damage before separating his shoulder in Game 6.
"He had a monster game," Quenneville said of Toews' performance Monday.
Chicago's Marian Hossa, who was dealing with a back injury, and Boston's Nathan Horton were also playing hurt. Julien said Chara was also at less than 100 per cent.
The players also had to contend with searing summer heat in the low 30s that did little for the ice. It was warmer in Beantown than Libya. A thin layer of fog was visible over the ice as the Bruins started their morning skate over some bumpy ice.
Monday matched the deepest the Stanley Cup playoffs have stretched into the summer. New Jersey capped its sweep of Detroit on June 24, 1995, in the last lockout-shortened season.
The last time the Cup was presented on Boston ice was in 1990 when John Muckler's Edmonton Oilers defeated Mike Milbury's Bruins four games to one. Craig Simpson, who was in CBC's commentary booth for the 2013 final, scored the winning goal. Milbury is a studio analyst for NBC.
The final, the first to feature Original Six teams since the Montreal Canadiens defeated the New York Rangers in 1979, did not disappoint.
There were three overtime games and plenty of drama as Chicago's speed and skill was matched against the hard-hitting Bruins, who balanced talent with truculence. But in truth, both teams had a bit of everything including clutch goaltending and a high pain threshold.
If Chicago is a sleek Porsche, Boston is a muscle car. Both have power, but one was built to give and take some more knocks.
Going into Game 6, Chicago led in shots (204-175) and goals (14-13), while Boston had the edge in hits (237-176).
After a painful lockout, a memorable final series was just what the doctor ordered.
"I think it's been a good bounce back half-season for the league personally," said Julien. "I think the fans got back into it, and you always appreciate their support because if I'm a guy on the other side, I know how I would have felt.
"Our fans are very forgiving and supportive, and that's what this game needs. In order for us to thank them or pay them back, you've got to give them the kind of hockey I think that they saw from all the teams here in the playoffs. It was an exciting last couple of months."
The Blackhawks become the first team in the salary cap era to win the Cup twice.
Chicago also won the Cup in 2010, defeating the Philadelphia Flyers 4-2. Given the Blackhawks' recent success, it is easy to forget that the 2010 championship was Chicago's first since 1961 — at the time the league's longest active Stanley Cup drought.
The Blackhawks had to shed players in the wake of that Cup run because of salary cap issues. But once again it finds itself celebrating on enemy ice, thanks to GM Stan Bowman's refreshing of the roster.
Dustin Byfuglien, Troy Brouwer, Brian Campbell, Ben Eager, Tomas Kopecky, Andrew Ladd, John Madden, Antti Niemi and Kris Versteeg all moved on after the 2010 Cup win.
Chicago, with a full-season salary tab of US$79.8 million, ranked fourth in the league this season in payroll.
Boston was eighth at $73.2 million and seemed to run out of weapons in the final.
Krejci had nine goals and 12 assists in the first three rounds of the playoffs but only managed two assists in the first five games of the final. That was two more points than Brad Marchand, who led the team in scoring this season.
Tyler Seguin, fourth on the team in scoring during the season, was 11th on the team going into Monday's game with one playoff goal and six assists.
It said something that going into Game 6 defencemen had scored 17 of Boston's 63 goals (27.0 per cent), the most among all playoff clubs.
And Chicago seemed to have solved Chara. The hulking defenceman was on the ice for eight of the nine goals against in Chicago's Game 4 and 5 wins.
After falling victim to several fast starts by the Blackhawks, Boston came out buzzing Monday and soon had the Chicago on its heels.
Hard work paid off for the Bruins' third line as Kelly won a faceoff in Chicago's defensive end. Seguin batted the puck down out of the air and passed over to Kelly, who scored his second of the playoffs at 7:19 by snapping a shot past Crawford.
With 4:01 remaining in the period, Chicago's Andrew Shaw went down after taking a Shawn Thornton shot to the face. That required workers to clean blood off the ice, while Shaw needed repairs of his own.
The fast-paced game was taking its toll. Jaromir Jagr played just 3:03 of the first period, with Rich Peverley taking his place alongside Marchand and Bergeron. Jagr returned for the second period, took one shift then headed back to the dressing room, with Seguin filling in.
The first period was all Boston, who led the shot attempts category 32-8.
The Bruins outshot Chicago 12-6, won 17 faceoffs to the Hawks' seven and also outhit Chicago 16-13. It could have been worse but the Blackhawks blocked 13 shots to the Bruins' one.
Still it was only 1-0 on the scoreboard. And that soon changed.
Toews tied it up at 4:24 of the second period with his third of the post-season, winning a faceoff and then — after Michael Rozsival chipped the puck ahead — beating Chara down the boards before swooping in to rifle a shot past Rask.
To make matters worse, the goal came at the end of a Boston power play — the exact second that a Shaw roughing penalty expired as the Blackhawks killed off their third penalty of the game.
It was Toews' second goal in his last three outings, equalling his total from his prior 22 playoff contests. For Chara, it meant he had been on the ice for nine of Chicago's last 10 goals.
But it was Chara to the rescue later in the period on a Chicago power play, clearing the puck away with Rask out of position after a pair of saves and Kane ready to stuff the rebound in.
Chicago outshot Boston 9-6 in the second period. And the Hawks were working hard to limit the Bruins chances, leading 20-4 in blocked shots after two periods.
Bergeron, clearly not 100 per cent, won three of seven faceoffs in the first 40 minutes.
Jagr was back on the bench to start the third period and returned to the ice.
The Blackhawks — who also won the Cup in 1934, 1938 and 1961 — opened the lockout-shortened season with a statement, picking up at least a point in 24 straight outings.
Colorado beat the Chicago 6-2 on March 8 to end the streak. The Blackhawks had won 11 in a row and were unbeaten in regulation in 30 straight games (24-0-6) dating to last season.
For Quenneville, it was trial by fire as every team facing the his club wanted to take them down.
Prior to the defeat at the hands of the Avalanche, the last regulation loss for the Blackhawks was a 6-1 home defeat to the Nashville Predators almost a year before.
Only the 1979-80 Philadelphia Flyers (25-0-10) have enjoyed a longer unbeaten NHL run. They did it in an era before regular season overtime.
Chicago finished the regular season with 36-7-5 record to lead the league. Boston was 15 points behind, in fifth spot overall.
The Blackhawks become the first Presidents' Trophy winner to win the Cup since the Red Wings did it in 2008.
"We're almost charmed the way we started the season and the way we ended," said Quenneville.
The Bruins finished with a 28-14-6 record, winning just two of their last nine in an end-of-season schedule disrupted by the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings.
"They're deep," Julien said of the Hawks. "They got stronger as the series went on, and they're a great hockey club. They need to be congratulated on that.
"But at the same time, I'm going to stand here and tell you how proud I am of our team, how those guys battled right until the end. Without getting into all these injuries today because it's not the time, we battled through a lot."
Notes: The game had Prime Minister Stephen Harper's attention who tweeted: "Original 6/Game 6 - fans like us can't lose" prior to the game. ... Prior to the final, Boston beat Toronto in seven games, the New York Rangers in five and the Pittsburgh Penguins in four. Chicago dispatched the Minnesota Wild in four, the Detroit Red Wings in seven after trailing 3-1 and the Los Angeles Kings in five.
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