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CDU/CSU ADVOCATE STUDY OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE AT GERMAN SCHOOLS

02.07.2005 05:02

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The Christian Democratic Union and Christian Social Union
(CDU/CSU) of Germany have sent a letter to the Ministry of Education and
Religion of the German federal lands proposing to include the history of the
Armenian Genocide in the school curriculum, reported Tagesspiegel. `The
Armenian Genocide during World War I directly related to the following
banishment and tragedies in Europe and of course the Holocaust.’ According
to the message, schools not always properly respond to Turkey erroneously
teaching history to children. Two weeks ago the Bundestag adopted a
resolution on the Armenian Genocide. The resolution does not specify the
events of 1915-1917 as `genocide’, however the concept is underlies the very
grounding of the resolution. Meanwhile, Armenia and most of the
international community qualify the events of 1915-1917 as a genocide. From
the point of view of Turkey the matter merely concerns the tragic
consequences of the forced deportation imposed by the war. Meanwhile, the
first federal Land of Brandenburg has included the Armenian Genocide in the
curriculum.