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VALCAV HAVEL: ARMENIANS ALSO SUFFERED HOLOCAUST
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, NY
April 26 2006
Former Czech President Vaclav Havel equated the Turkish killing of
Armenians during World War I to the slaughter of Jews in World War II.
Havel made his comments yesterday during a speech in Prague at a
Council of Europe conference on Holocaust education, saying that
civilization's moral failings were responsible for genocides, "be it
the holocaust of Armenians or Jews."
"These big catastrophes in fact are monstrous but in a way
understandable products of this civilization."
Up to 1 million Armenians died in ethnic strife under the Ottoman
Empire from 1915-1917.
Twenty-four countries officially recognize the Armenian deaths as a
genocide, but Turkey is adamant that no genocide occurred.
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, NY
April 26 2006
Former Czech President Vaclav Havel equated the Turkish killing of
Armenians during World War I to the slaughter of Jews in World War II.
Havel made his comments yesterday during a speech in Prague at a
Council of Europe conference on Holocaust education, saying that
civilization's moral failings were responsible for genocides, "be it
the holocaust of Armenians or Jews."
"These big catastrophes in fact are monstrous but in a way
understandable products of this civilization."
Up to 1 million Armenians died in ethnic strife under the Ottoman
Empire from 1915-1917.
Twenty-four countries officially recognize the Armenian deaths as a
genocide, but Turkey is adamant that no genocide occurred.