Harut Sassounian
Harut Sassounian is the Publisher of The California Courier, founded in 1958. His weekly editorials, translated into several languages, are reprinted in scores of U.S. and overseas publications and posted on countless websites.<p>
He is the author of “The Armenian Genocide: The World Speaks Out, 1915-2005, Documents and Declarations.”
As President of the Armenia Artsakh Fund, he has administered the procurement and delivery of $970 million of humanitarian assistance to Armenia and Artsakh during the past 34 years. As Senior Vice President of Kirk Kerkorian’s Lincy Foundation, he oversaw $240 million of infrastructure projects in Armenia.
From 1978 to 1982, Mr. Sassounian worked as an international marketing executive for Procter & Gamble in Geneva, Switzerland. He was a human rights delegate at the United Nations for 10 years. He played a leading role in the recognition of the Armenian Genocide by the U.N. Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities in 1985.
Mr. Sassounian has a Master’s Degree in International Affairs from Columbia University, and a Master’s in Business Administration from Pepperdine University.
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Sassounian’s column of Nov. 18, 2010
U.S. Documents Reveal Pres. Bush’s Duplicity on the Armenian Genocide In a highly informative book, “Children of Armenia: A Forgotten Genocide and Century-long Struggle for […]
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Sassounian’s column of Nov. 4, 2010
VP Biden’s Sensational Revelation of Phone Calls with Pres. Sargsyan Armenians worldwide were scandalized last week by Vice President Joe Biden’s revelation that Pres. Sargsyan […]
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USC Symposium on Armenian Diaspora Unity
LOS ANGELES—The University of Southern California Institute of Armenian Studies is planning a symposium titled “The Armenian Diaspora: Elective Leadership & Worldwide Structure,” with the […]
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Sassounian’s column of October 14, 2010
Turkish Foreign Ministry Should Remove Lies from its Website and Issue Apology Turkish officials have been misrepresenting the facts of the Armenian Genocide for years. […]
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Sassounian’s column of Oct. 7, 2010
Apology for Vilifying One Man, Yet no Apology for Killing 1.5 Million In 2008, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), an Alabama-based non-profit civil rights […]
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Who Won Akhtamar Propaganda War: Armenians or Turks?
The Turkish government failed to attract the expected crowd of thousands of worshippers from around the world to the first Mass in almost a century, […]