BUNDESTAG TO DISCUSS ARMENIAN GENOCIDE RESOLUTION JUNE 16

Pan Armenian News
15.06.2005 03:40

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The Bundestag will Thursday discuss and adopt the
Armenian Genocide Resolution, journalist Ashot Manucharian living
a working in Germany stated, RFE/RL reports. In his word, the term
“genocide” is used in the resolution. At the same time it says that
“many independent historians and international organizations define
the mass killings of Armenians as Genocide. “Thus the Bundestag
on one hand does not want to subject Turkey to sharp criticism but
on the other hand does not want to conceal the historical truth”,
Manucharian noted. The Bundestag asks the Armenian people for their
forgiveness, as partly through approval and through failure to take
effective preventive measures there was a German co-responsibility for
this genocide, the resolution says. To remind, preliminary discussion
on the resolution was held April 21. Despite the pressure exerted
by the Turkish government, the Turkish Embassy in Germany as well as
Turkish organizations, all the parties represented in the Bundestag
decided to adopt a document on the Armenian Genocide till September.