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Our Dead Have Names Worldwide Campaign Launched on Armenian Genocide
Anniversary
15.04.2006 21:56 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ A number of representatives of the Armenian Diaspora
addressed 9 million Armenians worldwide to start Our Dead Have Names
campaign. The call specifically says, `On April 24, 2006, the Armenian
community will commemorate the Armenian Genocide of 1915 which was
perpetrated by the Young Turk government of Ottoman Empire. This will
be the 91st commemoration. 90 too many! Historical revisionism by the
State, which has overstepped its boundaries since 2005 (when the
Republic of Turkey began negotiations for entry in the European
Union), is drowning us out and thereby prolonging Armenocide.
In turn, our sons and daughters should not have to struggle to make
the Turkish State recognize the ignominy of the Genocide inflicted on
our people.
Their future should be normal and happy within a society that has made
peace with itself. This is why we are making a solemn call to the
whole community so that every one of its members can witness the drama
that has affected them personally on 1915. We are asking men and women
from all continents to stand vigilant, as the memory of the Martyrs is
decried, as unprecedented violence is being inflicted on the sons and
daughters of the survivors of the Armenian Genocide, and as the very
existence of our identity, symbolized by the vestiges of our culture,
is being willfully wiped out. Today, Armenians are the target of the
denial of the crime of which their parents were innocent victims.
Scorned, bruised, exasperated, but nevertheless Armenian, we have to
tell the world, once and for all, that the time for geopolitical
procrastination has passed. We are not claiming to be victims, but
protesters for simple justice. The first of these is to allow us to
pay respect to our graveless parents’ remains. We will do this on
April 24, as we have done every year since 1916. In the absence of
burial sites, enables every one of us to write in the
names of those who lost their lives on our ancestral soil. Once this
has been done, another task will be invoked: to insure the permanent
recognition of the Genocide of the Armenian people and the inevitable
consequences of recognition.
Just like a petition, the recording of the names of the victims will
become a recognized document render to the United Nations, the only
institution whose competence in this area is acknowledged by Turkey.’