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Glendale News Press, CA
April 25 2013
Video: Schiff delivers speech on House floor in Armenian to honor
genocide victims
April 24, 2013
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank), lead sponsor of the Armenian genocide
resolution in Congress, delivered his remarks in Armenian on the House
floor Wednesday as he honored the 1.5 million Armenians who were
massacred in 1915 at the hands of Ottoman Turks.
His remarks come the same day that President Obama once again did not
use the word `genocide' in his annual statement about the tragic
event.
According to his office, in his Armenian address, Schiff said: `I
speak to you from the floor of the House of Representatives in the
language of your grandparents and your great-grandparents - the
language they used to speak of their hopes, their dreams, their lives
and their loves in the years before 1915...I speak to you in the
language of sons who watched their fathers murdered.'
On the 98th anniversary of the genocide, Schiff pointed out that not
only were Armenians murdered, Armenian women were raped by the
thousands.
`I speak to you in the language of the girls begging the gendarmes for
mercy,' he said.
The Turkish government has refused to acknowledge the Armenian
genocide ever happened, and Obama has come under harsh criticism for
not using the term in his annual statements about the tragedy, where
Armenian families were massacred or forced to march through the desert
heat, often until their deaths.
`I speak you in the language of the children begging for a drop of
water,' Schiff said.
The congressman noted there is `overwhelming evidence' - much of it
from American diplomats and journalists as well as Turkish historians
- that the genocide occurred and Schiff said he supports those who
fight to have it given its proper commemoration.
`I speak to you in the language of those who were lost,' Schiff said.
`Their voices drift across the decades, begging us to remember.'
-- Mark Kellam, [email protected]
http://articles.glendalenewspress.com/2013-04-24/news/tn-gnp-0424-rep-schiff-delivers-speech-on-house-floor-in-armenian-to-honor-genocide-victims_1_1-5-million-armenians-genocide-house-floor
April 25 2013
Video: Schiff delivers speech on House floor in Armenian to honor
genocide victims
April 24, 2013
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank), lead sponsor of the Armenian genocide
resolution in Congress, delivered his remarks in Armenian on the House
floor Wednesday as he honored the 1.5 million Armenians who were
massacred in 1915 at the hands of Ottoman Turks.
His remarks come the same day that President Obama once again did not
use the word `genocide' in his annual statement about the tragic
event.
According to his office, in his Armenian address, Schiff said: `I
speak to you from the floor of the House of Representatives in the
language of your grandparents and your great-grandparents - the
language they used to speak of their hopes, their dreams, their lives
and their loves in the years before 1915...I speak to you in the
language of sons who watched their fathers murdered.'
On the 98th anniversary of the genocide, Schiff pointed out that not
only were Armenians murdered, Armenian women were raped by the
thousands.
`I speak to you in the language of the girls begging the gendarmes for
mercy,' he said.
The Turkish government has refused to acknowledge the Armenian
genocide ever happened, and Obama has come under harsh criticism for
not using the term in his annual statements about the tragedy, where
Armenian families were massacred or forced to march through the desert
heat, often until their deaths.
`I speak you in the language of the children begging for a drop of
water,' Schiff said.
The congressman noted there is `overwhelming evidence' - much of it
from American diplomats and journalists as well as Turkish historians
- that the genocide occurred and Schiff said he supports those who
fight to have it given its proper commemoration.
`I speak to you in the language of those who were lost,' Schiff said.
`Their voices drift across the decades, begging us to remember.'
-- Mark Kellam, [email protected]
http://articles.glendalenewspress.com/2013-04-24/news/tn-gnp-0424-rep-schiff-delivers-speech-on-house-floor-in-armenian-to-honor-genocide-victims_1_1-5-million-armenians-genocide-house-floor