Ecumenical News International
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26 June 2006

UK lawmaker tackles government over stand on Ottoman massacres

London (ENI). A member of the British parliament, Stephen Pound
from the ruling Labour Party, has called on the British
government to declare that the mass deaths of Armenians,
Assyrians and Greeks in the former Ottoman Empire between 1915
and 1923 were genocide. Pound said in the House of Commons, the
lower parliamentary chamber: "I hope it is not contentious to say
that 3.5 million of the historic Christian population of
Assyrians, Armenians and Greeks then living in the Ottoman Empire
had been murdered – starved to death or slaughtered – or exiled
by 1923." [383 words, ENI-06-0508]

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