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    US CONGRESSWOMAN: WE WILL COMMEMORATE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF GENOCIDE

    21:45, 23.04.2015
    Region:World News, Armenia, Turkey
    Theme: Politics

    Congresswoman Jackie Speier has arrived in Yerevan as a member of
    the presidential delegation to participate in the events marking
    centennial of the Armenian Genocide.

    In her message on Facebook Congresswoman said:

    "I have just landed with a presidential delegation to my ancestors'
    home in Armenia. Our party from the United States will join officials
    in Yerevan to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of Red Sunday,
    the day the Ottoman Turkish government set in motion a systematic
    plan aimed at "solving the Armenian problem."

    On that day, they began by rounding up all the Armenian intellectuals
    in Turkey for slaughter. Then they went for the able-bodied laborers.

    Then they went for the women and children and families. They drove
    them into the desert, starving them, raping them, and splitting their
    heads open with axes.

    We will never forget this horrendous crime. And I will speak the
    truth wherever I go: I will never decline to call it genocide.

    As one of two Armenian-American members of Congress, I count my
    ancestors among those who died. From an early age, my mother instilled
    in me the importance of recognizing the genocide and the anguish the
    Armenian people feel about the need to acknowledge it.

    In Yerevan, I will wear a purple poppy, the symbol of genocide
    remembrance, a flower that is also known as a "forget me not."

    We will commemorate the 100th anniversary of the genocide for all
    those who died, and all who are yet unborn. We must remember so that
    we can spare the vulnerable from future genocides."

    http://news.am/eng/news/263628.html

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