LOCAL ADL CALLS ON NATIONAL OFFICE TO RECOGNIZE GENOCIDE

WHDH-TV, MA
Aug 17 2007

BOSTON — The New England chapter of the Anti-Defamation League is
calling on the national organization to formally recognize as genocide
the killings of up to one-and-a-half million Armenians.

The controversy came to a boil earlier this week when officials in
Watertown — a community with a large Armenian-American population —
decided to withdraw from "No Place for Hate," an anti-bigotry program
sponsored by the local ADL branch.

While acknowledging that Armenians were massacred by Ottoman Turks
between 1915 and 1923, the national ADL has stopped short of calling
the mass killings a genocide.

The Boston Globe reports that in an emergency meeting yesterday,
the regional ADL board adopted resolutions calling on the national
office to change its stance. The specifics of the resolutions were
not released.