Haytoug Preview: The Psychological Impact of the Armenian Genocide

Artwork by Annie Magdesyan

Didn’t your genocide happen a century ago?

Why do Armenians still care when it was so long ago?

Why can’t you just get over it and move on?

BY SARINE BOYADJIAN

Throughout my life, I have been at the receiving end of many variations of such questions. As a minority, as a child of the Armenian Diaspora, as a descendant of genocide survivors, how do I respond? In my youth, I assumed that educating “odars”