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    Bay Area Indymedia
    April 25 2010


    Statement of Solidarity for the Armenian Day of Remembrance, April 24, 2010

    by Alliance-Philippines
    Sunday Apr 25th, 2010 6:29 AM

    The Alliance-Philippines expressed militant solidarity with the
    Armenian Community in the United States in commemorating their Day of
    Remembrance for the 1.5 million victims of the Turkish genocide of
    1915. The Alliance highly criticized US president Obama's posture who
    refused to declare the 1915 mass killings of Armenians a genocide. In
    a double speak, Obama in his statement to mark Armenian Remembrance
    Day, Obama described the killings of 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman
    Turks as "one of the worst atrocities of the 20th century." Yet for
    the second year in a row, Obama avoided describing the episode as a
    genocide.


    San Francisco'The Alliance-Philippines expressed militant solidarity
    with the Armenian Community in the United States in commemorating
    their Day of Remembrance for the 1.5 million victims of the Turkish
    genocide of 1915.

    The Alliance highly criticized US president Obama's posture who
    refused to declare the 1915 mass killings of Armenians a genocide.

    In a double speak, Obama in his statement to mark Armenian Remembrance
    Day, Obama described the killings of 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman
    Turks as "one of the worst atrocities of the 20th century." Yet for
    the second year in a row, Obama avoided describing the episode as a
    genocide.

    Armenian American groups and their allies in Congress have been
    pushing for use of the term, and as a presidential candidate in 2008,
    Obama promised he would.

    Philippines, 1898. Armenia, 1915

    AJLPP shares the sentiments of the Armenian National Committee of
    America that issued a statement Saturday describing Obama's
    declaration as "yet another disgraceful capitulation to Turkey's
    threats, offering euphemisms and evasive terminology to characterize
    this crime against humanity."

    `The Philippines like Armenia under Turkey , during the turn of the
    century suffered the duplicity of US Imperialism.

    The US occupied the country and made it as its first colony together
    with Cuba and Puerto Rico. In the process of subjugation the US
    imperialist also conducted a genocide killing more than 1.6 Filipinos
    from 1898-1916.'

    Together we remember the Philippine and Armenian genocide. No matter
    how the US and Turkey refused to remember or admits its guilt, our
    people will never forget.

    http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/04/ 25/18645646.php
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