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President Obama Reminded About His Pledge To Recognize Armenian Geno

PRESIDENT OBAMA REMINDED ABOUT HIS PLEDGE TO RECOGNIZE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

PanARMENIAN.Net
19.02.2009 14:00 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ POLITIFACT.COM has added Barack Obama Campaign
Promise No. 511 to its list of Obama campaign promises.

It reads: "Recognize the Armenian genocide."

"Two years ago, I criticized the Secretary of State for the firing of
U.S. Ambassador to Armenia, John Evans, after he properly used the term
‘genocide’ to describe Turkey’s slaughter of thousands of Armenians
starting in 1915. As President I will recognize the Armenian Genocide,"
Obama said during his election campaign.

In a note POLITIFACT.COM explains that: "When we started looking for
President Obama’s campaign promises, we knew we might not find all
of them, and we hoped our readers would alert us to promises we had
missed. Today we are adding our first promise based on reader feedback:
Obama’s pledge to recognize the Armenian Genocide.

The issue has been a hot-button issue on the world stage because the
government of Turkey has objected to the use of the term ‘genocide’
as inaccurate and inflammatory.

A 2007 resolution in the U.S. House of Representatives said the
Armenian Genocide was carried out by the Ottoman Empire between 1915
and 1923, and resulted in the deaths of 1.5 million.

The resolution failed in the face of Bush administration concerns
that it would alienate Turkey, which borders Iraq.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS
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