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FORMER US AMBASSADOR REVEALS ANTI-ARMENIAN ACTIVITIES BY STATE DEPARTMENT
NEWS.am
15:18 / 12/09/2009
"Former U.S. Ambassador to Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands Arma
Jane Karaer, has revealed a series of shocking revelations about
the State Department's behind-the-scenes efforts on behalf of Turkey
during the 1980s to kill Congressional initiatives commemorating the
Armenian Genocide," reports the Armenian National Committee of America
(ANCA). The committee has relevant documents at their disposal,
with description of State Departments' activities. The revelation
is a part of Karaer's oral interview who also served as a commercial
officer in Ankara.
"Turkey was the big, big issue, almost the whole time that I was
there. About the time I arrived, then California Congressman Tony
Coelho had introduced a bill in the Post Office Committee of the House
of Representatives to declare April 25th or April something. Genocide
Day. The purpose, ostensibly, was to help the American people recall
the people who were lost in the so-called Armenian genocide. Why the
post office committee? Of course this is a foreign policy thing. If the
U.S. Congress says that their government committed Genocide, it would
enrage the Turks. However, there were a lot of Armenian-Americans in
Mr. Coelho's congressional district, and apparently whatever makes
the Turks unhappy, makes them happy.
The Turks had informed the Secretary of State that if that bill
got passed, something awful was going to happen in the bi-lateral
relationship. They didn't know what, but something awful was going
to happen. The Secretary had told the Assistant Secretary who told
my boss, &'Stop it.' Well, fortunately, we were able to find some
members of the House who, although they didn't know very much about
this piece of history, were peeved with Coelho for trying this end-run
around the Foreign Affairs Committee. Whatever the justice of his
claimit didn't belong in the Post Office Committee. What they wanted
from us primarily were lots of short speeches. Three minute speeches,
two minute speeches, that they could pass out on the subject on why
this was a bad idea.
We did get a certain amount of support from the Jewish lobby. They
don't particularly want to share the genocide label with other groups.
The gratuitous killing of a lot of people is an ugly thing. You don't
like to be picking nits over language. But the word genocide means a
particular thing, and the history does not support the charge that
the Turks were trying to wipe an ethnic group. From their point of
view, they were trying to stop a minority group from breaking off
another part of the country. While many people died in Eastern Turkey,
the Armenian communities in Western Turkey, who were not engaged in
rebellion, were not touched," ANCA website quotes Jane Karaer.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
NEWS.am
15:18 / 12/09/2009
"Former U.S. Ambassador to Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands Arma
Jane Karaer, has revealed a series of shocking revelations about
the State Department's behind-the-scenes efforts on behalf of Turkey
during the 1980s to kill Congressional initiatives commemorating the
Armenian Genocide," reports the Armenian National Committee of America
(ANCA). The committee has relevant documents at their disposal,
with description of State Departments' activities. The revelation
is a part of Karaer's oral interview who also served as a commercial
officer in Ankara.
"Turkey was the big, big issue, almost the whole time that I was
there. About the time I arrived, then California Congressman Tony
Coelho had introduced a bill in the Post Office Committee of the House
of Representatives to declare April 25th or April something. Genocide
Day. The purpose, ostensibly, was to help the American people recall
the people who were lost in the so-called Armenian genocide. Why the
post office committee? Of course this is a foreign policy thing. If the
U.S. Congress says that their government committed Genocide, it would
enrage the Turks. However, there were a lot of Armenian-Americans in
Mr. Coelho's congressional district, and apparently whatever makes
the Turks unhappy, makes them happy.
The Turks had informed the Secretary of State that if that bill
got passed, something awful was going to happen in the bi-lateral
relationship. They didn't know what, but something awful was going
to happen. The Secretary had told the Assistant Secretary who told
my boss, &'Stop it.' Well, fortunately, we were able to find some
members of the House who, although they didn't know very much about
this piece of history, were peeved with Coelho for trying this end-run
around the Foreign Affairs Committee. Whatever the justice of his
claimit didn't belong in the Post Office Committee. What they wanted
from us primarily were lots of short speeches. Three minute speeches,
two minute speeches, that they could pass out on the subject on why
this was a bad idea.
We did get a certain amount of support from the Jewish lobby. They
don't particularly want to share the genocide label with other groups.
The gratuitous killing of a lot of people is an ugly thing. You don't
like to be picking nits over language. But the word genocide means a
particular thing, and the history does not support the charge that
the Turks were trying to wipe an ethnic group. From their point of
view, they were trying to stop a minority group from breaking off
another part of the country. While many people died in Eastern Turkey,
the Armenian communities in Western Turkey, who were not engaged in
rebellion, were not touched," ANCA website quotes Jane Karaer.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress