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From the Armenian National Committee of America This has been a long, time time coming… The House Foreign Affairs Committee voted narrowly on Thursday to condemn as genocide the mass killings of Armenians early in the last century, defying a last-minute plea from the Obama administration to forgo a vote that seemed sure to [...] Armenian civilians are marched to a nearby prison in Mezireh by armed Turkish soldiers. Kharpert, Western Armenia, Ottoman Empire in April 1915. Between one and one-and-a-half million Armenians were killed by the Ottoman Empire in a mass extermination in 1915, now called the Armenian Genocide, that included death marches and prison camps. It is [...] Armenian Genocide memorial. Yerevan, Armenia (Bill Paparian, former mayor of Pasadena CA, continues his guest posts on the continuing refusal of the US Congress to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide happened) Adam Schiff, Howard Berman, and Nancy Pelosi are perpetrating a cruel hoax upon the Armenian-American community. And we have allowed them to get away [...] Guest post from my friend Bill Paparian on the betrayal of Armenians by the US Congress and Obama with their refusal to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide occurred. He is a former Mayor of Pasadena CA, Green Party Congressional candidate in 2006, and lawyer. I’ll tip my hat to the new constitution Take a bow [...] So I guess they think it happened, eh? This even though he opposes the resolution. Interesting. (Since it’s a resolution, there’s nothing to veto, but apparently he’s chosen not to pressure House Republicans to oppose it.) Update: Here’s why. The Democrats, including Pelosi, are doing it for him. It now goes to the House floor, where Democratic leaders say there will be a vote by mid-November. There is a companion bill in the Senate, but both measures are strictly symbolic, and do not require the president’s signature. It should be noted that Bob Dole was the first member of Congress to put forward [...] A Congressional committee votes tomorrow on whether to recognize the Armenian genocide. Adam Schiff (D-CA) from the heavily Armenian area of Glendale / Pasadena is a primary sponsor of the bill. Meanwhile Jane Harman (DINO-CA) has done another of her usual flip-flops to the conservative side by now opposing the bill she once supported. Turkey [...] Systematic participation of doctors in state terrorism began with the Armenian genocide in Turkey in 1915. Medical personnel were directly involved in the killings, often participating in torture. Behaeddin Shakir and Mehmet Nazim established extermination squads staffed by criminals.The Armenian genocide provided the template for the Nazi holocaust, leading to the most notorious example of [...] The PM of Canada warned Turkey for criticizing the Canadian government policy of recognizing the Armenian genocide, saying this would not help in normalizing relations. In Britain, 133 parliamentarians voted support for the Armenian genocide resolution. In the United States, Congress remains mostly mute on the matter. Because while of course the US decries genocide [...] |  | ||||
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