HEARING FOR GENOCIDE DENIAL CASE SET FOR SEPTEMBER 18
Public Radio of Armenia
Sept 18 2006
On Monday, September 18, a motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed by a
Turkish group and others seeking to rewrite history with respect to
the Armenian Genocide, will be heard in US District Court in Boston,
Massachusetts.
The lawsuit, filed last year by the Assembly of Turkish American
Associations (ATAA), asserts that the Massachusetts Department of
Education’s decision to remove denialist materials in the school
curriculum amounts to "censoring" and therefore would be a violation
of the First Amendment. The Armenian Assembly immediately responded
when the suit was filed, hiring a first-rate legal team that includes
Irwin Chemerinsky of Duke University and co-counsel Arnie Rosenfeld
of the firm Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham LLP, to fight
against this latest assault waged by revisionists seeking to deny
the Armenian Genocide.
The ATAA lawsuit is part of an ongoing Turkish campaign to deny the
historical truth. Having failed to insert their denialist materials
into the state curriculum, the ATAA brought the suit, arguing a tired
and discredited position that contradicts the current trend in Turkish
society to understand its past.