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    Daily Pilot
    April 3 2015

    UCI student leaders condemn denial of Armenian genocide

    By Nicole Knight Shine
    April 4, 2015


    The UC Irvine student legislative council on Monday unanimously passed
    a resolution to commemorate the Armenian genocide and "condemn its
    denial."

    The measure follows similar resolutions passed at UCLA and other state
    campuses meant to mark the 100th anniversary of the massacre of about
    1.5 million Armenians starting in 1915 amid the chaotic collapse of
    the Ottoman Empire.

    Over the years, measures put forward in the U.S. Congress to recognize
    the killings as genocide have failed in the face of stiff opposition
    from Turkey.

    Turkey acknowledges that many Armenians died in the fighting but
    denies the widely accepted number and the term genocide, which is
    nonetheless used by many foreign parliaments and Western historians.

    "The cycle of genocide continues with that denial," said Carla
    Kekejian, a UCI junior and one of three students who petitioned for
    the resolution.

    The resolution calls on the campus to set April 24 as the official day
    of remembrance for the Armenian genocide. It also "condemns those
    attempts made by governments as well as other entities, both public
    and private, to distort the historical reality and legal relevance of
    the Armenian genocide to the descendants of its survivors and humanity
    as a whole."

    "When we put in writing like that," Kekejian said, "it ensures that
    every year it is going to be remembered and commemorated on campus."


    http://www.dailypilot.com/news/tn-dpt-me-0404-uci-resolution-20150404,0,4438017.story




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