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US HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI CALLS 1915 EVENTS "GENOCIDE"
APA
April 27 2009
Azerbaijan
Washington. Zaur Hasanov -APA. US House of Representative Nancy Pelosi
called the 1915 events as "genocide" in her statement issued on the
94th anniversary of the false "Armenian Genocide".
According to the APA US bureau, the pro-Armenian speaker said: "Today,
we commemorate the 94th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide and pay
tribute to the victims and survivors. We know from their testimony
and historical records that the Armenian genocide was conceived and
carried out by the rulers of the Ottoman Empire from 1915 to 1923".
Pelosi, who was elected to the Congress from California, said that
"1.5 million Armenian people were killed and more than two million
others were expelled from their homeland. International observers
and diplomats to the Ottoman Empire, including U.S. Ambassador Henry
Morgenthau, watched a nightmare unfurl and provided detailed accounts
about 'a campaign of race extermination". "It is long past time for
the U.S. Government to formally recognize the Armenian Genocide. If
we ignore history then we are destined to repeat the mistakes of the
past. The genocides in Rwanda and Darfur remind us that we must do
more to prevent this from ever happening again", said Pelosi.
US President Barack Obama characterized the 1915 events in his
address on April 24 using the Armenian word. President Obama said
"the Meds Yeghern (it means in Armenian as "great catastrophe")
must live on in our memories, just as it lives on in the hearts of
the Armenian people".
APA
April 27 2009
Azerbaijan
Washington. Zaur Hasanov -APA. US House of Representative Nancy Pelosi
called the 1915 events as "genocide" in her statement issued on the
94th anniversary of the false "Armenian Genocide".
According to the APA US bureau, the pro-Armenian speaker said: "Today,
we commemorate the 94th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide and pay
tribute to the victims and survivors. We know from their testimony
and historical records that the Armenian genocide was conceived and
carried out by the rulers of the Ottoman Empire from 1915 to 1923".
Pelosi, who was elected to the Congress from California, said that
"1.5 million Armenian people were killed and more than two million
others were expelled from their homeland. International observers
and diplomats to the Ottoman Empire, including U.S. Ambassador Henry
Morgenthau, watched a nightmare unfurl and provided detailed accounts
about 'a campaign of race extermination". "It is long past time for
the U.S. Government to formally recognize the Armenian Genocide. If
we ignore history then we are destined to repeat the mistakes of the
past. The genocides in Rwanda and Darfur remind us that we must do
more to prevent this from ever happening again", said Pelosi.
US President Barack Obama characterized the 1915 events in his
address on April 24 using the Armenian word. President Obama said
"the Meds Yeghern (it means in Armenian as "great catastrophe")
must live on in our memories, just as it lives on in the hearts of
the Armenian people".