FACING UP TO GENOCIDE – A LETTER RECEIVED FROM LOS ANGELES TIMES
Harut Sassounian, Glendale

AZG Armenian Daily
08/02/2007

In 1975 and 1984, when the House of Representatives adopted similar
resolutions on the Armenian Genocide, and when President Reagan issued
a proclamation in 1981 referring to "the Genocide of the Armenians",
in all three instances, Turkey wisely chose not to carry out aby of
its anti-American threats. Turkey quickly realized that it needs
the US much more than the US need Turkey. If the Turkish leaders
did not keep on denying the Armenian Genocide, there would not be
need to pass such resolutions year after year. The leaders of Turkey
are foolishly trying to cover up the mass crimes committed by the
long-defunct Ottoman Empire.

They should condemn those who committed the Armenian genocide, as
German leaders today condemn the Holocaust committed by the Nazis.