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Ted Cruz Calls For Recognition of Armenian Genocide
By Contributor on April 19, 2015 in Headline, News //
Cruz: "The Massacre of the Armenian, Assyrian, and other Christian
People Should be Called what it is: Genocide"
WASHINGTON--Republican Presidential Candidate, Senator Ted Cruz
(R-Texas) on April 18 marked the Centennial of the Armenian Genocide
with a statement calling for the proper recognition of the massacre of
Armenian, Assyrian, and other Christian peoples as genocide, reported
the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA).
Republican Presidential Candidate, Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas)
Cruz's statement, addressed to the Armenian Church of Austin, was read
on the south steps of the Texas State Capitol, during the Austin Peace
March and Rally, an observance attended by thousands and organized by
the Armenian Genocide Centennial Committee of Texas.
"Senator Cruz got it right," said ANCA Executive Director Aram
Hamparian. "As Americans, we cannot be silent. We must speak the
truth. His remarks highlight the Armenian Genocide gag-rule that
Ankara continues to enforce on the U.S. government, and spotlight the
stark choice facing President [Barack] Obama this April 24: to reject
or enforce Turkey's veto on our nation's Armenian Genocide policy."
Prior to his election to the oval office, Obama was clear and
unequivocal in his pledge to properly characterize the murder of over
1.5 million Armenian men, women and children from 1915-23 by the
Ottoman Turkish government as genocide. "The facts are undeniable. An
official policy that calls on diplomats to distort the historical
facts is an untenable policy. As a senator, I strongly support passage
of the Armenian Genocide Resolution (H.Res.106 and S.Res.106), and as
President I will recognize the Armenian Genocide," stated then Senator
Obama in a Jan. 19, 2008, statement. The full text of that statement
is available at here.
Since his election in 2008, Obama has yet to honor that pledge. A
complete record of Senator Obama's statements on the Armenian Genocide
prior to his election to the White House is availablehere.
The full text of Senator Cruz's statement is provided below.
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Senator Ted Cruz
United States Senate
April 18, 2015
Armenian Church of Austin
In Recognition of the Armenian Genocide
One hundred years ago, the world was too silent as the Armenian people
suffered a horrific genocide. Today, we commemorate more than a
million souls who were extinguished by the Ottoman Government. Let the
terrors of those events awaken in us the courage to always stand for
freedom against evil forces. As Pope Francis rightly said, "Concealing
or denying evil is like allowing a wound to keep bleeding without
bandaging it."
The massacre of the Armenian, Assyrian and other Christian people
should be called what it is: genocide.
Sadly, many today are still unaware of this 20th century atrocity. We
cannot neglect the brutality carried out on these innocent souls
because we cannot leave any room for them to occur again. If we forget
the annals of history, we will not honor those who suffered in the
death camps of the Holocaust, Soviet Union, Cambodia, and many others.
That is a tragedy we can and should prevent.
As the Russian novelist and Soviet prisoner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
reflected, "In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within
us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it,
and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future."
I commend your efforts to illuminate the past, and to prevent such
injustice from occurring again, whether in your homeland or in any
country around the globe. Thank you for your commitment to speaking
the truth in love.
May God bless the Armenian people, and may he continue to bless America.
Sincerely,
Ted Cruz
United States Senator
http://armenianweekly.com/2015/04/19/ted-cruz-calls-for-genocide-recognition/
By Contributor on April 19, 2015 in Headline, News //
Cruz: "The Massacre of the Armenian, Assyrian, and other Christian
People Should be Called what it is: Genocide"
WASHINGTON--Republican Presidential Candidate, Senator Ted Cruz
(R-Texas) on April 18 marked the Centennial of the Armenian Genocide
with a statement calling for the proper recognition of the massacre of
Armenian, Assyrian, and other Christian peoples as genocide, reported
the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA).
Republican Presidential Candidate, Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas)
Cruz's statement, addressed to the Armenian Church of Austin, was read
on the south steps of the Texas State Capitol, during the Austin Peace
March and Rally, an observance attended by thousands and organized by
the Armenian Genocide Centennial Committee of Texas.
"Senator Cruz got it right," said ANCA Executive Director Aram
Hamparian. "As Americans, we cannot be silent. We must speak the
truth. His remarks highlight the Armenian Genocide gag-rule that
Ankara continues to enforce on the U.S. government, and spotlight the
stark choice facing President [Barack] Obama this April 24: to reject
or enforce Turkey's veto on our nation's Armenian Genocide policy."
Prior to his election to the oval office, Obama was clear and
unequivocal in his pledge to properly characterize the murder of over
1.5 million Armenian men, women and children from 1915-23 by the
Ottoman Turkish government as genocide. "The facts are undeniable. An
official policy that calls on diplomats to distort the historical
facts is an untenable policy. As a senator, I strongly support passage
of the Armenian Genocide Resolution (H.Res.106 and S.Res.106), and as
President I will recognize the Armenian Genocide," stated then Senator
Obama in a Jan. 19, 2008, statement. The full text of that statement
is available at here.
Since his election in 2008, Obama has yet to honor that pledge. A
complete record of Senator Obama's statements on the Armenian Genocide
prior to his election to the White House is availablehere.
The full text of Senator Cruz's statement is provided below.
***
Senator Ted Cruz
United States Senate
April 18, 2015
Armenian Church of Austin
In Recognition of the Armenian Genocide
One hundred years ago, the world was too silent as the Armenian people
suffered a horrific genocide. Today, we commemorate more than a
million souls who were extinguished by the Ottoman Government. Let the
terrors of those events awaken in us the courage to always stand for
freedom against evil forces. As Pope Francis rightly said, "Concealing
or denying evil is like allowing a wound to keep bleeding without
bandaging it."
The massacre of the Armenian, Assyrian and other Christian people
should be called what it is: genocide.
Sadly, many today are still unaware of this 20th century atrocity. We
cannot neglect the brutality carried out on these innocent souls
because we cannot leave any room for them to occur again. If we forget
the annals of history, we will not honor those who suffered in the
death camps of the Holocaust, Soviet Union, Cambodia, and many others.
That is a tragedy we can and should prevent.
As the Russian novelist and Soviet prisoner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
reflected, "In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within
us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it,
and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future."
I commend your efforts to illuminate the past, and to prevent such
injustice from occurring again, whether in your homeland or in any
country around the globe. Thank you for your commitment to speaking
the truth in love.
May God bless the Armenian people, and may he continue to bless America.
Sincerely,
Ted Cruz
United States Senator
http://armenianweekly.com/2015/04/19/ted-cruz-calls-for-genocide-recognition/