SWEDISH PARLIAMENT TO VOTE ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE MOTION
PanARMENIAN.Net
16.02.2010 15:23 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The Swedish Parliament prepares to vote on a motion
that describes the killing of Armenians, Assyrians and Chaldeans during
the collapse of the Ottoman Empire as Genocide, Today’s Zaman reported.
Turkish politicians have already warned Swedish authorities that
"voting on such a motion would damage bilateral relations and make
the approval of protocols signed by Turkey and Armenia more difficult."
The current Swedish parliament has to handle all the motions before
the parliamentary elections scheduled for September.
The Armenian Genocide (1915-23) was the deliberate and systematic
destruction of the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire during
and just after World War I. It was characterized by massacres, and
deportations involving forced marches under conditions designed to
lead to the death of the deportees, with the total number of deaths
reaching 1.5 million.
The majority of Armenian Diaspora communities were formed by the
Genocide survivors.
To date, twenty countries and 44 U.S. states have officially recognized
the events of the period as genocide, and most genocide scholars and
historians accept this view.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
