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LA COUNCILMEMBER: OBAMA'S REFUSAL TO RECOGNIZE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE IS SHAMEFUL
13:25, 22.04.2015
Region:World News, Armenia, Diaspora, Turkey
Theme: Politics
City Councilmember Paul Krekorian, the first Armenian-American
elected to city government in Los Angeles, responded to President
Barack Obama's refusal to refer to the mass killing and deportation
of 1.5 million Armenians beginning in 1915 in what is today Turkey
as a genocide, Asbarez reported.
Paul Krekorian said:
"America has always been a beacon of hope to people throughout the
world who yearn for freedom and seek to escape tyranny and oppression.
It is especially shameful that our government yields its own freedom
to a foreign power, especially one that bears responsibility for
one of the most grotesque examples of tyranny and oppression in
world history. Turkey's paranoid obsession with denying its moral
responsibility for the Armenian Genocide is an outrage in the modern
world. By allowing Turkey's leaders to decide how we can or cannot
speak about historical truth, our own government fails to uphold its
own fundamental principles of freedom. Turkey's supposed importance as
an 'ally' is a miserable excuse, especially since that government has
so often failed to support American military and foreign policy needs,
and even now is failing to take reasonable steps to stop Islamist
outrages in Syria and elsewhere in the region. Our country was born
when we stood up against the mightiest nation on Earth--certainly
we should now have the strength and moral courage to stand up to
Turkish denialists."
http://news.am/eng/news/263245.html
13:25, 22.04.2015
Region:World News, Armenia, Diaspora, Turkey
Theme: Politics
City Councilmember Paul Krekorian, the first Armenian-American
elected to city government in Los Angeles, responded to President
Barack Obama's refusal to refer to the mass killing and deportation
of 1.5 million Armenians beginning in 1915 in what is today Turkey
as a genocide, Asbarez reported.
Paul Krekorian said:
"America has always been a beacon of hope to people throughout the
world who yearn for freedom and seek to escape tyranny and oppression.
It is especially shameful that our government yields its own freedom
to a foreign power, especially one that bears responsibility for
one of the most grotesque examples of tyranny and oppression in
world history. Turkey's paranoid obsession with denying its moral
responsibility for the Armenian Genocide is an outrage in the modern
world. By allowing Turkey's leaders to decide how we can or cannot
speak about historical truth, our own government fails to uphold its
own fundamental principles of freedom. Turkey's supposed importance as
an 'ally' is a miserable excuse, especially since that government has
so often failed to support American military and foreign policy needs,
and even now is failing to take reasonable steps to stop Islamist
outrages in Syria and elsewhere in the region. Our country was born
when we stood up against the mightiest nation on Earth--certainly
we should now have the strength and moral courage to stand up to
Turkish denialists."
http://news.am/eng/news/263245.html