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    Turkish Government Intervention to Stop Assyrian Genocide Monument

    http://www.assyriatimes.com/engine/modul es/news/article.php?storyid=3399
    12/6/2009 12:14:00

    According to the news from SBS radio last Friday on the Assyrian
    program, that arguments over a proposed monument in Sydney suburb of
    Fairfield has mounted to diplomatic level.

    The regional Secretary of the Assyrian Universal Alliance (AUA), Mr.
    Hermiz Shahen has proposed a monument to be put on public land to what
    he calls the victims of the Assyrian Genocide.

    Mr. Shahen said during an interview with SBS Radio `Our people need
    reconciliation, they are asking the Turkish government to some how
    admit the wrongdoing against our people because if they don't admit
    it- then we are exposed to further genocide as its happening now in
    Iraq and repeated itself in 1933'.

    On the other hand the Turkish consul general in Sydney, Mr. Renan
    Sekeroglu has denied there was any genocide against the Assyrians.

    Although he admitted there were tragedies on both sides in a war
    during the last years of the Ottoman Empire. He went further by saying
    that he will contact the Fairfield Council to lodge an objection to
    the proposed Assyrian monument.

    Mr. Sekeroglu said during an interview with SBS Radio "I am afraid
    that if such proposals bear fruit then it will create a climate of
    hostility and it will also contradict the environment of historically
    friendly relations between Turkey and Australia'.

    The Fairfield council says `it's taking into consideration all angles
    before making a decision on the 4.5 meters sculpture that looks like a
    hand holding up the globe'.

    Fairfield Council will decide whether to permit the monument or not on
    December the 15th.

    Mr. Shahen encouraged on the Assyrian program all the freedom loving
    people to support the application made by the AUA at Fairfield City.
    Mr. Shahen said;
    `It is an undeniable fact that over 750,000 Christian Assyrians lost
    their lives in this genocide. The depopulation of Greek, Assyrians and
    the Armenians was part of parcel of Turkey's policy of eliminating the
    Christian minorities. Efforts to encourage Turkey to face this
    historical reality will help move forward the process of
    democratization in that nation. It will as well, help to guarantee
    that Turkey understands its contemporary obligations to protect both
    the human and collective community rights of its minority populations
    and to prevent any future genocide.'


    Assyrian Universal Alliance, Australia Region
    Member: Unrepresented Nations & Peoples Organization (UNPO)

    PO Box 34, Fairfield NSW 1860 Australia
    E-mail: [email protected]
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