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ANCA STATEMENT REGARDING US COURT VERDICT
Panorama.am
25/02/2012
Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) Executive Director Aram
Hamparian issued the following statement regarding the 9th Circuit
Court ruling in the Movsesian v. Versicherung case, which would
effectively bar Americans of Armenian descent from seeking the return
of stolen Armenian Genocide era insurance assets through U.S. courts,
under California law, ANCA official website said.
"This ruling opens the door for foreign governments to try to roll
back the clock on human rights, potentially putting at peril American
grassroots efforts - along the lines of the anti-Apartheid, Darfur
Genocide, and Free Tibet movements - that so often start at the state
and local level, sometimes even against opposition at the federal
level, before winning broad acceptance by the American people and
the U.S. government," stated ANCA Executive Director Aram Hamparian.
"Turkey has no right to hold all three branches of the U.S. government
hostage to its irrational and hateful denial of the Armenian Genocide,
a crime that has already been broadly recognized by American civil
society and government, once by a U.S. President, at least twice
by the House of Representatives, 42 times by separate U.S. states,
and hundreds of times by municipal governments in nearly every state
of our union."
"There is nothing in this judgment - or in any court ruling - that
will stand in the way of our pursuit of a principled U.S. policy
in support of a truthful, just, and comprehensive resolution of the
Armenian Genocide."
"Today's court ruling highlights the ongoing human costs of the White
House's complicity in Turkey's denials of the Armenian Genocide,
and underscores the urgency of President Obama honoring his pledge to
properly recognize this crime against humanity," concluded Hamparian.
Panorama.am
25/02/2012
Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) Executive Director Aram
Hamparian issued the following statement regarding the 9th Circuit
Court ruling in the Movsesian v. Versicherung case, which would
effectively bar Americans of Armenian descent from seeking the return
of stolen Armenian Genocide era insurance assets through U.S. courts,
under California law, ANCA official website said.
"This ruling opens the door for foreign governments to try to roll
back the clock on human rights, potentially putting at peril American
grassroots efforts - along the lines of the anti-Apartheid, Darfur
Genocide, and Free Tibet movements - that so often start at the state
and local level, sometimes even against opposition at the federal
level, before winning broad acceptance by the American people and
the U.S. government," stated ANCA Executive Director Aram Hamparian.
"Turkey has no right to hold all three branches of the U.S. government
hostage to its irrational and hateful denial of the Armenian Genocide,
a crime that has already been broadly recognized by American civil
society and government, once by a U.S. President, at least twice
by the House of Representatives, 42 times by separate U.S. states,
and hundreds of times by municipal governments in nearly every state
of our union."
"There is nothing in this judgment - or in any court ruling - that
will stand in the way of our pursuit of a principled U.S. policy
in support of a truthful, just, and comprehensive resolution of the
Armenian Genocide."
"Today's court ruling highlights the ongoing human costs of the White
House's complicity in Turkey's denials of the Armenian Genocide,
and underscores the urgency of President Obama honoring his pledge to
properly recognize this crime against humanity," concluded Hamparian.