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AUSTRALIAN MLC SAYS IT IS TIME FOR ANKARA TO RECOGNIZE THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
ARMENPRESS
FEBRUARY 15, 2012
YEREVAN
YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 15, ARMENPRESS: Member of the Legislative Council
of Australia Walt Secord condemned the Turkish government for its
continued denial of the Armenian Genocide in a powerful address on
the floor of the Legislative Council during the first sitting of the
New South Wales parliament in 2012.
In a clear and unequivocal statement on public record, Secord declared
that the Turkish government's denial of the Armenian Genocide was
unacceptable.
"It is repugnant for Turkey to deny the deaths of the 1.5 million
Armenians," said the co-deputy chair of the NSW Parliament's Armenia
Australia Parliamentary Friendship Group.
"It is time for Ankara to accept the past and unequivocally recognise
the Armenian genocide."
In his address entitled 'Genocide Study Tour', Secord also discussed
his recent visits to the Armenian Genocide Museum Institute in Yerevan,
the Concentration Camp in Auschwitz and Halabja in Iraq.
He spoke of the lack of a just resolution to the Armenian Genocide
as a factor that paved the way for the destruction of European Jewry
during the Holocaust.
"Sadly too few of us know of the Armenian Genocide. It was that very
denial of history that allowed communities to silently watch the
transports to and the smoke of Auschwitz," said Secord.
The Legislative Council Member thanked the Armenian National Committee
of Australia for supporting his recent visit to Armenia and Nagorno
Karabakh and pledged to continue encouraging the advocacy efforts of
the organisation.
ANC Australia Executive Director Varant Meguerditchian immediately
contacted Secord to thank him for bringing to light the denial of
genocide and sharing his learnings from his "Genocide Study Tour"
with his parliamentary colleagues.
"Denial is considered by scholars as the final stage of one genocide
and the first stage of the next genocide," said Meguerditchian.
"We thank Mr Secord for bringing awareness to this issue of humanity
by highlighting the relationship between the denial of the Armenian
Genocide and the persecution of Jews during the Holocaust."
ARMENPRESS
FEBRUARY 15, 2012
YEREVAN
YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 15, ARMENPRESS: Member of the Legislative Council
of Australia Walt Secord condemned the Turkish government for its
continued denial of the Armenian Genocide in a powerful address on
the floor of the Legislative Council during the first sitting of the
New South Wales parliament in 2012.
In a clear and unequivocal statement on public record, Secord declared
that the Turkish government's denial of the Armenian Genocide was
unacceptable.
"It is repugnant for Turkey to deny the deaths of the 1.5 million
Armenians," said the co-deputy chair of the NSW Parliament's Armenia
Australia Parliamentary Friendship Group.
"It is time for Ankara to accept the past and unequivocally recognise
the Armenian genocide."
In his address entitled 'Genocide Study Tour', Secord also discussed
his recent visits to the Armenian Genocide Museum Institute in Yerevan,
the Concentration Camp in Auschwitz and Halabja in Iraq.
He spoke of the lack of a just resolution to the Armenian Genocide
as a factor that paved the way for the destruction of European Jewry
during the Holocaust.
"Sadly too few of us know of the Armenian Genocide. It was that very
denial of history that allowed communities to silently watch the
transports to and the smoke of Auschwitz," said Secord.
The Legislative Council Member thanked the Armenian National Committee
of Australia for supporting his recent visit to Armenia and Nagorno
Karabakh and pledged to continue encouraging the advocacy efforts of
the organisation.
ANC Australia Executive Director Varant Meguerditchian immediately
contacted Secord to thank him for bringing to light the denial of
genocide and sharing his learnings from his "Genocide Study Tour"
with his parliamentary colleagues.
"Denial is considered by scholars as the final stage of one genocide
and the first stage of the next genocide," said Meguerditchian.
"We thank Mr Secord for bringing awareness to this issue of humanity
by highlighting the relationship between the denial of the Armenian
Genocide and the persecution of Jews during the Holocaust."