Glendale News Press, CA
May 5 2012
Armenian Genocide resolution gets support from L.A. County Democratic Party
May 05, 2012
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The L.A. County Democratic Party recently passed a resolution to ask
the California Democratic Party to endorse efforts to educate its
members about the Armenian Genocide and reject efforts to deny the
crime.
The resolution was authored by the Southern California Armenian
Democrats, which has many local members. It received widespread
support on its way to the county party’s executive committee.
The vote came on the eve of the 97th anniversary of the Armenian
genocide, in which 1.5 million Armenians were killed by Ottoman Turks.
The Turkish government has refused to acknowledge the deaths as genocide.
The state Democratic Party is on record for supporting remembrance of
the Armenian Genocide and has expressed its desire to make sure such a
crime never happens again.
However, at the California Democratic convention in February, several
Armenians and their supporters held a peaceful protest during an
appearance by talk show host Cenk Uygur at a meeting of the state
party’s progressive caucus. Uygur is host of the “Young Turks’ TV
program and made denialist comments about the genocide in the 1990s.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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