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Office of Assemblymember Portantino
CONTACT: Wendy Gordon
626.720.3409 mobile
626.577.9944 office
626 577-9944/626 720-3409
August 31, 2012
Assemblymember Portantino Condemns Recent anti-Armenian Actions
"Ordinarily I would not comment on a local land use issue in my
district, but I was quite concerned by comments made by members of the
Turkish Government denying the history surrounding the Armenian
Genocide. There is nothing vague or unclear about the Genocide:
innocent Armenians were slaughtered in what historians have clearly
and justifiably proclaimed was the first Genocide of the 20th Century.
Our prayers and thoughts should always be with the surviving family
members, not in opposing a proposed Genocide Memorial in Pasadena in
order to deny and obscure the facts that caused the deaths of 1.5
million Armenians.
In addition, I am concerned about rising international anti-Armenian
sentiments. I am particularly alarmed about press reports of Hungary's
extradition and release of Ramil Safarov, who was convicted in Hungary
for the death of an Armenian Lieutenant on a NATO training mission.
To hear that this man is now free in Azerbaijan is an insult to
international justice and a significant and alarming concern to the
proud Armenian American families living in my district"
Assemblymember Anthony J. Portantino (D- La Caņada Flintridge)
Office of Assemblymember Portantino
CONTACT: Wendy Gordon
626.720.3409 mobile
626.577.9944 office
626 577-9944/626 720-3409
August 31, 2012
Assemblymember Portantino Condemns Recent anti-Armenian Actions
"Ordinarily I would not comment on a local land use issue in my
district, but I was quite concerned by comments made by members of the
Turkish Government denying the history surrounding the Armenian
Genocide. There is nothing vague or unclear about the Genocide:
innocent Armenians were slaughtered in what historians have clearly
and justifiably proclaimed was the first Genocide of the 20th Century.
Our prayers and thoughts should always be with the surviving family
members, not in opposing a proposed Genocide Memorial in Pasadena in
order to deny and obscure the facts that caused the deaths of 1.5
million Armenians.
In addition, I am concerned about rising international anti-Armenian
sentiments. I am particularly alarmed about press reports of Hungary's
extradition and release of Ramil Safarov, who was convicted in Hungary
for the death of an Armenian Lieutenant on a NATO training mission.
To hear that this man is now free in Azerbaijan is an insult to
international justice and a significant and alarming concern to the
proud Armenian American families living in my district"
Assemblymember Anthony J. Portantino (D- La Caņada Flintridge)