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OTTOMAN GENOCIDE STATEMENT EXCLUDES YEZIDI GENOCIDE; YEZIDI COMMUNITY IN ARMENIA CONSIDERS IT "DISCRIMINATION"
02.16.2015 12:47 epress.am
"Sinjar" Yezidi National Union NGO considers the law authored by
National Assembly deputy Spokesperson Eduard Sharmazanov related
to the genocide of religious minorities in the Ottoman Empire to
be unacceptable.
The NGO's statement states that last year Heritage faction MP Zaruhi
Postanjyan presented a draft statement to the National Assembly which
would condemn the genocide of Yezidis, Greeks, Assyrians, and other
national-religious minorities in the Ottoman Empire.
"The draft was rejected with the efforts of the Republican Party
faction. The rejection was justified by Republican Party MP Samvel
Farmanyan, who believed that the statement was not in the interest
of Armenia's foreign policy.
And behold, after some time, NA deputy Spokesperson Eduard Sharmazanov
authored a nearly identical draft statement, where the main
difference between his and MP Zaruhi Postanjyan's statement is that
it does not mention the Genocide of Yezidis. Such behavior is simply
incomprehensible and shocking to the Yezidi community in Armenia. Why
is the National Assembly neglecting the genocide of Yezidis on the
same empire's territory? It is known, that of the 200,000 Yezidi
families who lived on the territory of the Ottoman Empire until 1914,
only 14,000 survived and later continued to be persecuted for keeping
Armenian refugees in their homes. Why is Armenia's legislature
forgetting these facts and was is the Yezidi Genocide factor that
was not beneficial from a RA foreign policy perspective?
"Sinjar" Yezidi National Union NGO condemns the behavior of coauthors
of the draft toward the Yezidi people and calls for a necessary
amendment to the draft statement; otherwise we would consider it a
discrimination against the Yezidi people," states the Sinjar NGO's
statement.
http://www.epress.am/en/2015/02/16/ottoman-genocide-statement-excludes-yezidi-genocide-yezidi-community-in-armenia-considers-it-%E2%80%9Cdiscrimination%E2%80%9D.html
From: Baghdasarian
02.16.2015 12:47 epress.am
"Sinjar" Yezidi National Union NGO considers the law authored by
National Assembly deputy Spokesperson Eduard Sharmazanov related
to the genocide of religious minorities in the Ottoman Empire to
be unacceptable.
The NGO's statement states that last year Heritage faction MP Zaruhi
Postanjyan presented a draft statement to the National Assembly which
would condemn the genocide of Yezidis, Greeks, Assyrians, and other
national-religious minorities in the Ottoman Empire.
"The draft was rejected with the efforts of the Republican Party
faction. The rejection was justified by Republican Party MP Samvel
Farmanyan, who believed that the statement was not in the interest
of Armenia's foreign policy.
And behold, after some time, NA deputy Spokesperson Eduard Sharmazanov
authored a nearly identical draft statement, where the main
difference between his and MP Zaruhi Postanjyan's statement is that
it does not mention the Genocide of Yezidis. Such behavior is simply
incomprehensible and shocking to the Yezidi community in Armenia. Why
is the National Assembly neglecting the genocide of Yezidis on the
same empire's territory? It is known, that of the 200,000 Yezidi
families who lived on the territory of the Ottoman Empire until 1914,
only 14,000 survived and later continued to be persecuted for keeping
Armenian refugees in their homes. Why is Armenia's legislature
forgetting these facts and was is the Yezidi Genocide factor that
was not beneficial from a RA foreign policy perspective?
"Sinjar" Yezidi National Union NGO condemns the behavior of coauthors
of the draft toward the Yezidi people and calls for a necessary
amendment to the draft statement; otherwise we would consider it a
discrimination against the Yezidi people," states the Sinjar NGO's
statement.
http://www.epress.am/en/2015/02/16/ottoman-genocide-statement-excludes-yezidi-genocide-yezidi-community-in-armenia-considers-it-%E2%80%9Cdiscrimination%E2%80%9D.html
From: Baghdasarian