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APPEAL FOR RECOGNITION: YEZDI COMMUNITY TURNS TO ARMENIAN PARLIAMENT FOR SUPPORT
SOCIETY | 08.04.15 | 15:32
Alina Nikoghosyan
ArmeniaNow intern
Armenia's Yezdi community is urging the National Assembly to adopt
a resolution that would recognize the "Yezdi Genocide", as having
occurred during the same period as the Armenian Genocide, 100 years
ago under the Ottoman Empire.
A bill on the issue was refused in February when introduced by
(opposition) Heritage Party MP Zaruhi Postanjyan. A similar bill
was introduced by Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) faction head Naira
Zohrabyan, urging recognizing the Yezdi Genocide in the Ottoman Empire
before April 24, which was approved.
"It is surprising for me that there were people who said that documents
related to the Yezdi Genocide are insufficient. It is not so, such
people are unaware. We have all proof, both scientific and historical,"
Aziz Tamoyan, World Yezdi Union President told reporters Wednesday.
According to Tamoyan, Armenian State institutions were introduced
to the books he published and said that the stories he introduces
are factual, but for him the silence of international structures is
not understandable.
"In 2014 in Iraq there was an attack on Yezdi villages in which 17,000
Yezdis were slaughtered and now it continues. There are institutions
that deal with human rights, why have they closed their mouths and
eyes? What is the reason that today one of the oldest nations in
the world is being abolished," Tamoyan said asking Germany, England,
and Russia to support the Yezdis.
Tamoyan is calling on international recognition, as his community is
still targeted today by ISIS, in Iraq.
"The area of Sinjar is uninhabited, let (international agencies)
provide security so that they return to their homes, and let them
create an autonomy of Cross Worshippers)," Tamoyan said urging both
Yezdis in Armenia and in the world to stand up and protect their
rights. "We must be strong and united to be able to solve these
questions. We will continue our fight, and with Armenians we are
brother nations and will remain such."
http://armenianow.com/society/62152/yezdi_genocide_amrenian_genocide
From: Baghdasarian
SOCIETY | 08.04.15 | 15:32
Alina Nikoghosyan
ArmeniaNow intern
Armenia's Yezdi community is urging the National Assembly to adopt
a resolution that would recognize the "Yezdi Genocide", as having
occurred during the same period as the Armenian Genocide, 100 years
ago under the Ottoman Empire.
A bill on the issue was refused in February when introduced by
(opposition) Heritage Party MP Zaruhi Postanjyan. A similar bill
was introduced by Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) faction head Naira
Zohrabyan, urging recognizing the Yezdi Genocide in the Ottoman Empire
before April 24, which was approved.
"It is surprising for me that there were people who said that documents
related to the Yezdi Genocide are insufficient. It is not so, such
people are unaware. We have all proof, both scientific and historical,"
Aziz Tamoyan, World Yezdi Union President told reporters Wednesday.
According to Tamoyan, Armenian State institutions were introduced
to the books he published and said that the stories he introduces
are factual, but for him the silence of international structures is
not understandable.
"In 2014 in Iraq there was an attack on Yezdi villages in which 17,000
Yezdis were slaughtered and now it continues. There are institutions
that deal with human rights, why have they closed their mouths and
eyes? What is the reason that today one of the oldest nations in
the world is being abolished," Tamoyan said asking Germany, England,
and Russia to support the Yezdis.
Tamoyan is calling on international recognition, as his community is
still targeted today by ISIS, in Iraq.
"The area of Sinjar is uninhabited, let (international agencies)
provide security so that they return to their homes, and let them
create an autonomy of Cross Worshippers)," Tamoyan said urging both
Yezdis in Armenia and in the world to stand up and protect their
rights. "We must be strong and united to be able to solve these
questions. We will continue our fight, and with Armenians we are
brother nations and will remain such."
http://armenianow.com/society/62152/yezdi_genocide_amrenian_genocide
From: Baghdasarian