Inspire, move & touch: 1st Genocide of 21st Century
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More on the Armenian Genocide from my inspiring Armenian friend below:
Inspire, move & touch: 1st Genocide of 21st Century
Inspire, move & touch: 1st Genocide of 21st Century
Also Kudos to Queen Pelosi on this issue.
NY Post editorial on Pelosi's involvement:
At issue is a congressional resolution that would declare the deaths of 1.5 million Armenians in Turkey during World War I to have been genocide.
The resolution, which has only rhetorical impact, has been raised before; sponsors and congressional leaders have been dissuaded by pleas from previous administrations. But this time, it has a House speaker who strongly supports the measure.
This despite twin warnings from Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Robert Gates that the resolution would needlessly and destructively antagonize Turkish public opinion against the United States.
ABF, for the promotion of human rights and democracy in Iran
2 comments:
why Pelosi all of sudden playing the moral authority here?
I think the saddest thing about this event and why it can't come to a closure is that the Turkish government not only doesn't acknowledge it, they flatly deny it ever happened. So long as there are people in this world who deny atrocities against humanity, closure won't be achieved and the first step to healing won't happen. I have always found Iranian Armenians very gentle and peace loving peope. This event is the only thing I have seen that brings them to a boiling point and agitates them. My son says that when he lived in Cyprus, the Cypriot Christians felt the same way. The light at the end of the tunnel is that sooner or later, some day all countries have to acknowledge crimes that happened in their countries over the course of history, each time helping one group of people in the world to come to closure. Thanks for being a continuous stream of awareness, Serendip.
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