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    The Hill, DC
    April 24 2010

    Fiornia gets into debate over Armenian genocide resolution

    By Bridget Johnson - 04/24/10 02:03 PM ET

    Senate candidate Carly Fiorina jumped into one of the most contentious
    issues in the House on the day when Armenians mark the killing of 1.5
    million by the Ottoman Empire.

    The House Foreign Affairs Committee narrowly passed a resolution March
    4 to call the killings genocide, which sparked a tiff with Turkey in
    which the ambassador was recalled to Ankara for a month.

    Fiorina issued a statement Saturday afternoon calling on Congress to
    pass the resolution and calling on President Barack Obama to recognize
    the killings as genocide, which he didn't in his Armenian Remembrance
    Day statement.

    `There are periods in our history that are dark and horrible," Fiorina
    said. "They reveal the evil that exists in our world and underscore
    the atrocities that humankind is capable of committing.

    "It is our duty to acknowledge the contemptible, premeditated crimes
    and horrible acts of genocide that were committed by the Ottoman Turks
    when they drove Armenians from their ancestral homeland during this
    dark period of human history," she said.

    Armenian communities are prevalent in central and southern California,
    with the city of Glendale hosting one of the largest concentrations of
    Armenians in the U.S.


    Source:
    http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box /senate-races/94137-fiornia-gets-into-debate-over- armenian-genocide-resolution

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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