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MASSACHUSETTS COURT CONFIRMS PROHIBITION ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE DENIAL
ArmInfo
2010-08-13 13:40:00
ArmInfo. The US court of appeals has upheld a ruling that blocks
schools in the state of Massachusetts from teaching literature that
denies the mass killing of Armenians in Turkey in 1915 was a genocide.
Press service of the Voice of America says, the decision of the lower
court has thus remained in force. According to the decision, in 1999,
the Massachusetts authorities fairly excluded from textbooks the
information saying mass killings of one and half million of Armenians
by Turks in Ottoman Empire was not a genocide.
The lawsuit was initially filed by the Assembly of Turkish American
Associations, the lawyers of which claimed that exclusion of such
materials from the education curriculum is a censure. They think that
schoolchildren must be acquainted with the modern Turkish version
of presentment of the events in order to have a balanced idea of
the tragedy. The Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) and
Armenian Assembly of America (AAA) welcomed the decision of the US
court of appeals.
From: A. Papazian
ArmInfo
2010-08-13 13:40:00
ArmInfo. The US court of appeals has upheld a ruling that blocks
schools in the state of Massachusetts from teaching literature that
denies the mass killing of Armenians in Turkey in 1915 was a genocide.
Press service of the Voice of America says, the decision of the lower
court has thus remained in force. According to the decision, in 1999,
the Massachusetts authorities fairly excluded from textbooks the
information saying mass killings of one and half million of Armenians
by Turks in Ottoman Empire was not a genocide.
The lawsuit was initially filed by the Assembly of Turkish American
Associations, the lawyers of which claimed that exclusion of such
materials from the education curriculum is a censure. They think that
schoolchildren must be acquainted with the modern Turkish version
of presentment of the events in order to have a balanced idea of
the tragedy. The Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) and
Armenian Assembly of America (AAA) welcomed the decision of the US
court of appeals.
From: A. Papazian