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LANDLOCKED ARMENIA RESULT OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE - AUSTRALIAN MP
Tert.am
16.12.11
Andrew Rohan, a member for Smithfield in the NSW Legislative Assembly,
declared in a parliamentary statement that modern-day Armenia remains
landlocked as a result of the Genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman
Turkish government.
Rohan, who was elected to parliament in the March 2011 election, rose
in the House to describe the impact the Armenian Genocide continues
to have on the Republic of Armenia.
He said: "As a result of the Armenian Genocide, the modern state of
Armenia remains landlocked and does not constitute all of the lands
once historically occupied by Armenians."
He continued: "Turkey, the successor state and beneficiary of the
Ottoman perpetrators of the Armenian, Hellenic and Assyrian Genocides,
currently maintains an economic blockade of Armenia which endangers
the socio-economic viability, security and sustainability of a people
subjected to genocide less than a century ago."
Rohan also talked about the efforts of the Republic of Turkey to
impede a just resolution of the Armenian Genocide.
He added: "The Turkish Government continues to destroy Armenian
cultural monuments and churches; Turkish educators teach students a
revised version of history, claiming that no genocide took place;
and under article 301 of the Turkish penal code, courts prosecute
and sentence anyone who openly accepts the occurrence of the Armenian
Genocide."
Tert.am
16.12.11
Andrew Rohan, a member for Smithfield in the NSW Legislative Assembly,
declared in a parliamentary statement that modern-day Armenia remains
landlocked as a result of the Genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman
Turkish government.
Rohan, who was elected to parliament in the March 2011 election, rose
in the House to describe the impact the Armenian Genocide continues
to have on the Republic of Armenia.
He said: "As a result of the Armenian Genocide, the modern state of
Armenia remains landlocked and does not constitute all of the lands
once historically occupied by Armenians."
He continued: "Turkey, the successor state and beneficiary of the
Ottoman perpetrators of the Armenian, Hellenic and Assyrian Genocides,
currently maintains an economic blockade of Armenia which endangers
the socio-economic viability, security and sustainability of a people
subjected to genocide less than a century ago."
Rohan also talked about the efforts of the Republic of Turkey to
impede a just resolution of the Armenian Genocide.
He added: "The Turkish Government continues to destroy Armenian
cultural monuments and churches; Turkish educators teach students a
revised version of history, claiming that no genocide took place;
and under article 301 of the Turkish penal code, courts prosecute
and sentence anyone who openly accepts the occurrence of the Armenian
Genocide."