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TOWN SQUARE: ARMENIANS MAD AT LAMBORN
Colorado Springs Gazette
http://www.gazette.com/articles/side-104248-running-create.html
Sept 8 2010
Colorado Springs Republican U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn has earned the
ire of the Armenian-American community by allegedly not pushing hard
enough to recognize the suffering that small nation faced at the
hands of the Ottoman Empire during World War I.
Armenia, on the Ottoman's - now Turkey's - eastern border, suffered
an estimated 1 million deaths during a program of mass resettlement
and killing known as the century's first genocide.
Pamela Barsam of Boulder, founder of the pro-Armenian group Rocky
Mountain Hye, said Lamborn should be punished for dropping his support
of an effort three years ago to pass a resolution effectively scolding
Turkey for that nation's failure to recognize the mass-killings
in Armenia.
"If you fail to recognize a past genocide you are enabling and inviting
genocides to occur," said Barsam.
Lamborn has said he backed off the Armenia resolution because it could
have upset America's key alliance with Turkey during a crucial point
in the Iraq war.
Barsam said she's gone elsewhere for support, getting a promise from
Lamborn's long-shot Democratic opponent Kevin Bradley that he'll back
the Armenian measure if he gets elected in November.
It would take a lot of Armenian votes to unseat Lamborn. He beat
Democrat Hal Bidlack with 60 percent of the vote in 2008.
From: A. Papazian
Colorado Springs Gazette
http://www.gazette.com/articles/side-104248-running-create.html
Sept 8 2010
Colorado Springs Republican U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn has earned the
ire of the Armenian-American community by allegedly not pushing hard
enough to recognize the suffering that small nation faced at the
hands of the Ottoman Empire during World War I.
Armenia, on the Ottoman's - now Turkey's - eastern border, suffered
an estimated 1 million deaths during a program of mass resettlement
and killing known as the century's first genocide.
Pamela Barsam of Boulder, founder of the pro-Armenian group Rocky
Mountain Hye, said Lamborn should be punished for dropping his support
of an effort three years ago to pass a resolution effectively scolding
Turkey for that nation's failure to recognize the mass-killings
in Armenia.
"If you fail to recognize a past genocide you are enabling and inviting
genocides to occur," said Barsam.
Lamborn has said he backed off the Armenia resolution because it could
have upset America's key alliance with Turkey during a crucial point
in the Iraq war.
Barsam said she's gone elsewhere for support, getting a promise from
Lamborn's long-shot Democratic opponent Kevin Bradley that he'll back
the Armenian measure if he gets elected in November.
It would take a lot of Armenian votes to unseat Lamborn. He beat
Democrat Hal Bidlack with 60 percent of the vote in 2008.
From: A. Papazian