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HOLOCAUST MUSEUM URGES INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY TO RECOGNIZE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
15:22, 24 April, 2013
YEREVAN, APRIL 24, ARMENPRESS. The Director of the Holocaust Museum in
the U.S. promised to organize a vast exhibition on the occasion of the
100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. As reports "Armenpress"
citing Skokie periodical, the Director of the Museum Rick Hirschhaut
stated that in the next month they will hold a two-day conference
titled "The Ottoman Turkish Genocides of Anatolian Christians". Among
other things Hirschhaut underscored: "We must speak for those, whose
voices were silenced and for those who survived so we may remember and
pledge never to forget. Today, at this gathering, we are reminded of
a history that must be recognized, and remembered, and calls to the
importance of lighting the torch of truth for the world community. Our
young people - our future - must be a bridge to the future, and ensure
that we realize the lessons that were set forth by us, by the Armenian
Genocide, the Holocaust, and all such terrible atrocities."
The fact of the Armenian Genocide by the Ottoman government has
been documented, recognized, and affirmed in the form of media
and eyewitness reports, laws, resolutions, and statements by many
states and international organizations. The complete catalogue
of all documents categorizing the 1915 wholesale massacre of the
Armenian population in Ottoman Empire as a premeditated and thoroughly
executed act of genocide, is extensive. Uruguay was the first country
to officially recognize the Armenian Genocide in 1965. The massacres
of the Armenian people were officially condemned and recognized as a
genocide in accordance with the international law by France, Germany,
Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland, Sweden, Russia, Poland,
Lithuania, Greece, Slovakia, Cyprus, Lebanon, Uruguay, Argentina,
Venezuela, Chile, Canada, Vatican, and Australia.
15:22, 24 April, 2013
YEREVAN, APRIL 24, ARMENPRESS. The Director of the Holocaust Museum in
the U.S. promised to organize a vast exhibition on the occasion of the
100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. As reports "Armenpress"
citing Skokie periodical, the Director of the Museum Rick Hirschhaut
stated that in the next month they will hold a two-day conference
titled "The Ottoman Turkish Genocides of Anatolian Christians". Among
other things Hirschhaut underscored: "We must speak for those, whose
voices were silenced and for those who survived so we may remember and
pledge never to forget. Today, at this gathering, we are reminded of
a history that must be recognized, and remembered, and calls to the
importance of lighting the torch of truth for the world community. Our
young people - our future - must be a bridge to the future, and ensure
that we realize the lessons that were set forth by us, by the Armenian
Genocide, the Holocaust, and all such terrible atrocities."
The fact of the Armenian Genocide by the Ottoman government has
been documented, recognized, and affirmed in the form of media
and eyewitness reports, laws, resolutions, and statements by many
states and international organizations. The complete catalogue
of all documents categorizing the 1915 wholesale massacre of the
Armenian population in Ottoman Empire as a premeditated and thoroughly
executed act of genocide, is extensive. Uruguay was the first country
to officially recognize the Armenian Genocide in 1965. The massacres
of the Armenian people were officially condemned and recognized as a
genocide in accordance with the international law by France, Germany,
Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland, Sweden, Russia, Poland,
Lithuania, Greece, Slovakia, Cyprus, Lebanon, Uruguay, Argentina,
Venezuela, Chile, Canada, Vatican, and Australia.