DK VICE PRESIDENT CRITICIZED FOR DOWNPLAYING SIGNIFICANCE OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
Politics.hu, Hungary
May 23 2014
By David O’Riordan
Democratic Coalition Vice President Ágnes Vadai has sparked anger for
downplaying the historical significance of the Armenian genocide in
comments she made to ATV last week.
Outrage arose because of Vadai’s criticism of remarks made by Jobbik’s
Dora Dúro. Dúro complained that the Jewish Holocaust is the only one
people ever talk about, when there have been many other holocausts
in history.
Members of Hungary’s Armenian minority sent a letter to ATV, rejecting
Vadai’s arguments and asking the station to disassociate itself from
the remarks.
The coordinator of the Armenian Holocaust Centenary, Artin Diramerjan,
subsequently appeared on ATV expressing his condemnation of Vadai’s
“clumsy, uninformed comments.” He added that pretty much without
exception every member of the Armenian minority in Hungary would have
been affected in some way by the genocide, and would likely have been
offended by Vadai’s remarks.
Diramerjan said that the slaughter of Jews in Europe in the 1940s
had much in common with the brutality carried out on the Armenians
in Turkey in 1915. He also stated that the word “holocaust” was first
used in connection with the Armenian genocide.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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