Monte melkonian biography of williams
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By any account, the enigmatic genius, scholar, political activist, soldier, and freedom fighter Monte Melkonian led a short but extraordinary life.
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In My Brother?s Road, which will be released in paperback in August, Monte?s brother Markar, with the help of Monte?s widow Seta, chronicles one Californian?s journey from small town kid to legendary martyr. Monte?s modern-day epic begins in 1969, when the Melkonians visit their maternal grandmother?s ancestral village in Western Armenia, some 55 years after the Genocide.
At the impressionable age of 11, Monte sees his grandmother?s birthplace, watches the Turks who have taken up residence in the village, notices that the Armenian Church has become a Turkish movie theater, and ponders about the outlines left when crosses were chiseled off doors.
His people had disappeared from the village and the region, millions of Armenians had evaporated from the face of the planet, and Turkey still denied it