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SERB MP: FOR DECADES LITTLE HAD BEEN KNOWN ABOUT ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
23:33, 20.04.2015
Region:World News, Armenia
Theme: Politics, Analytics
Serbia's Parliament ruling coalition MP Aleksandar Cotric wrote an
article on Armenian Genocide in the Serbian newspaperVecernje Novosti.
The article reads, in part:
"In the course of the crimes perpetrated in 1915-23, about two
million Armenians were kicked out of their houses. Hundred thousands
of innocent men, women and children were killed. According to the
Armenian sources, the number of the victims even reached 1.5 million.
This way the presence of Armenians was eliminated from the land where
they used to live over 2.5 thousand years.
The global forum "Against the Crime of Genocide" will be held in
Yerevan. I'm invited to represent the Serbian Skupshtina and speak
on the topic of parliamentarians against the crime of Genocide.
Serb people also fell victim to the genocide perpetrated by the
Ustashe on the territory of the Independent State of Croatia in
1941-45. Hundreds of thousands Serbs were killed on the territory
which was controlled by the Ustashe regime. To everyone's shame,
post-war authorities of communist Yugoslavia neither recognized that
genocide nor informed the names of the victims.
The Ottoman Empire leadership (ally of Germany and Austria-Hungary)
perpetrated the great crime against the Armenians by the death march
through the Syrian Desert, where many people died from thirst and
exhaustion. Turks also committed a Genocide over the cultural heritage
of Armenian people: according to the Armenian sources, 66 cities,
25 thousand villages, 2350 thousand Christian churches and about 1500
schools had been destroyed.
Because of the systematic suppression of the facts about the deaths of
the Armenians, for decades little had been known about the Armenian
Genocide. This allowed Adolf Hitler to state in 1939, before the
beginning of Jews' and Polacks' exterminations: "Who, after all,
speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?"
I think the 100th anniversary of the terrible crime against the
Armenians is also a chance of normalizing the diplomatic relations
of Armenia and Turkey, opening of the border and building a bridge
for the new relations between the Armenians and Turks."
http://www.novosti.rs/vesti/naslovna/drustvo/aktuelno.290.html:544355-Aleksandar-Cotric-Genocid-ne-zaboravljamo
http://news.am/eng/news/263000.html
23:33, 20.04.2015
Region:World News, Armenia
Theme: Politics, Analytics
Serbia's Parliament ruling coalition MP Aleksandar Cotric wrote an
article on Armenian Genocide in the Serbian newspaperVecernje Novosti.
The article reads, in part:
"In the course of the crimes perpetrated in 1915-23, about two
million Armenians were kicked out of their houses. Hundred thousands
of innocent men, women and children were killed. According to the
Armenian sources, the number of the victims even reached 1.5 million.
This way the presence of Armenians was eliminated from the land where
they used to live over 2.5 thousand years.
The global forum "Against the Crime of Genocide" will be held in
Yerevan. I'm invited to represent the Serbian Skupshtina and speak
on the topic of parliamentarians against the crime of Genocide.
Serb people also fell victim to the genocide perpetrated by the
Ustashe on the territory of the Independent State of Croatia in
1941-45. Hundreds of thousands Serbs were killed on the territory
which was controlled by the Ustashe regime. To everyone's shame,
post-war authorities of communist Yugoslavia neither recognized that
genocide nor informed the names of the victims.
The Ottoman Empire leadership (ally of Germany and Austria-Hungary)
perpetrated the great crime against the Armenians by the death march
through the Syrian Desert, where many people died from thirst and
exhaustion. Turks also committed a Genocide over the cultural heritage
of Armenian people: according to the Armenian sources, 66 cities,
25 thousand villages, 2350 thousand Christian churches and about 1500
schools had been destroyed.
Because of the systematic suppression of the facts about the deaths of
the Armenians, for decades little had been known about the Armenian
Genocide. This allowed Adolf Hitler to state in 1939, before the
beginning of Jews' and Polacks' exterminations: "Who, after all,
speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?"
I think the 100th anniversary of the terrible crime against the
Armenians is also a chance of normalizing the diplomatic relations
of Armenia and Turkey, opening of the border and building a bridge
for the new relations between the Armenians and Turks."
http://www.novosti.rs/vesti/naslovna/drustvo/aktuelno.290.html:544355-Aleksandar-Cotric-Genocid-ne-zaboravljamo
http://news.am/eng/news/263000.html