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  • Andras Kupper Speech Delivered In The House Of Parliament On 3rd May

    ANDRAS KUPPER SPEECH DELIVERED IN THE HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT ON 3RD MAY

    Story from Lragir.am News:
    http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/society21721.html
    Published: 11:57:07 - 11/05/2011

    Andras Kupper is the Chairman of the Hungarian-Armenian Parliamentary
    Group

    Thank you for the word, Dear Chairman, Right Honourable Members of the
    Parliament, Among the emperors of the Roman Empire Galerius was the
    first one who provided freedom of religion for christian people in the
    toleration act in his deathbed in AD 313. Later it was confirmed by the
    western and oriental emperors Constantine and Licinius in Mediolanum,
    today called Milan. So Christianity was officially legalized in the
    Roman Empire in the Edict of Milan in 313. After this Christianity
    was made the official religion of the Empire by Theodosius I and it
    determined the further direction of European progress. We, European
    people are tending to suppose that christianity expanded from small
    sects in Israel towards the western part of the continent. According
    to less-known facts it started to spread into east-northeast direction
    and the first christian powers evolved in Caucasus mountains. Armenia
    was the first one, who made christianity the official religion in AD
    301 then Georgia followed her in 330.

    These two little folks preserved their faith and culture during
    critical centuries. This year Easter was especially highlighted in
    christian complex, because Western (Catholic, Anglican, and Protestant)
    Christian and Eastern (Orthodox) Christian Easter is celebrated on
    the same day. For the Armenians this Easter was on the same day with
    the Armenian Genocide also known as the Armenian Holocaust. The day
    24 April 1915 is Genocide Remembrance day for Armenians. That night
    the Ottoman government rounded-up, imprisoned and killed an estimated
    200-250 Armenian intellectuals. The same happened to hundreds of people
    in the following days. The captured were taken to prisons in Anatolia
    and killed. Armenian soldiers in the Ottoman army were disarmed and
    persuaded to labour camps. On 29 May 1915, the CUP Central Committee
    passed the Temporary Law of Deportation, giving the Ottoman government
    and military authorization to deport anyone it 'sensed' as a threat
    to national security. The Armenians were marched out to the Syrian
    desert. A good deal of evidence suggests that the Ottoman government
    did not provide any facilities or supplies to sustain the Armenians
    during their deportation, nor when they arrived. On 15th August 1915,
    The New York Times reported that ~Sthe roads and the Euphrates are
    strewn with corpses of exiles, and those who survive are doomed to
    certain death.

    It is a plan to exterminate the whole Armenian people.~TOttoman troops
    escorting the Armenians not only allowed others to rob, kill, and rape
    the Armenians, but often participated in these activities themselves.

    Deprived of their belongings and marched into the desert, hundreds
    of thousands of Armenians perished. The New York Times wrote:
    ~DNaturally, the death rate from starvation and sickness is very
    high and is increased by the brutal treatment of the authorities,
    whose bearing toward the exiles as they are being driven back and
    forth over the desert is not unlike that of slave drivers. With few
    exceptions no shelter of any kind is provided and the people coming
    from a cold climate are left under the scorching desert sun without
    food and water. Temporary relief can only be obtained by the few able
    to pay officials.~TIt is believed that 25 major concentration camps
    existed and some were only temporary transit camps. Some experts also
    maintain that some camps were built specifically for those who had a
    life expectancy of a few days. Some months later the Ottoman parliament
    passed the 'Temporary Law of Expropriation and Confiscation', stating
    that all property, including land, livestock, and homes belonging
    to Armenians, was to be confiscated by the authorities. With this
    implementation, the confiscation of Armenian property and the slaughter
    of Armenians ensued upon the law's enactment outraged much of the
    western world. In the United States, The New York Times reported
    almost daily on the mass murder of the Armenian people, describing
    the process as ~Ssystematic~T, ~Sauthorized~T and ~Sorganized by
    the government.~T Theodore Roosevelt would later characterize this
    as 'the greatest crime of the war.'Accord to historians without the
    Armenian Genocide there would be about 40 million Armenian people. Due
    to the facts there are about 9-10 million Armenians spread all over
    the world but not without roots. Their national identity is stronger
    than at any other nations maybe because of the survived horror or the
    experience given by senior generation. They preserve and sustain the
    great culture and traditions of the state, which became christian one
    of the first ones. High respect not only the memory of the deceased
    but even their heirs. It is all over the world and it also happens
    in Hungary. Thank you for your attention.

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