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    AzerNews Weekly, Azerbaijan
    April 16 2010

    Schwarzenegger orders to mourn Armenian `genocide' victims: reports

    16-04-2010 05:42:48

    California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has announced April 19-26
    as a week of commemorating the victims of the alleged genocide of
    Armenians, a claim on the World War I-era mass killings in the Ottoman
    Empire, Armenian reports say.
    Schwarzenegger said in a statement that `the horrors of the past
    should be recalled to prevent a repetition of history'.
    `The Armenian genocide is a terrible violation of human rights and an
    event that insulted the world,' the statement claimed. `1.5 innocent
    Armenians lost their lives in 1915-1923, having succumbed to mass
    killings in the Ottoman Empire, and 500,000 others were forced to
    leave their homeland.'
    Historians note that during the developments, Armenians had begun an
    uprising. They took up arms against Turkey and assisted Russia, one of
    Turkey's enemies in WWI. To counter these actions, the Ottoman Empire
    decided to resettle the Armenians. The latter claim that their
    predecessors were subjected to genocide in the process, while Ankara
    rejects the allegations and has offered to research the events through
    a joint commission of historians.*
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