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chak_org@yahoo.com

Oc tober 12, 2007

CHAK welcomes the recognition of genocide against the Armenian people

The Center of Halabja against Anfalization and Genocide of the Kurds
(CHAK) welcomes the decision by the United States Congressional House
Foreign Affairs Committee to recognize the mass killings of
approximately 1.5 million innocent Armenians in 1915 at the hands of the
young Turks. This decision is an important step toward the wider
recognition of the brutality that took place at that time. CHAK looks
forward to the day when the US Senate follows this historically
important decision.

Recognition of the genocide committed against the Armenian people is
important, as is the recognition of other crimes committed against the
Greeks, the Assyrians, and the Kurds before and after the mass killings
of the Armenians. This recognition will help us all to have a broader
understanding of past crimes and present us with the possibility of a
peaceful and brighter future.

CHAK looks forward to working for the recognition of the Darsim
genocide, in which tens of thousands of Kurdish men, women, and children
were killed en mass by poisoning, burning, mass shootings, and other
extreme methods in 1937-1938. This was a brutal act of genocide long
forgotten by the international community.

The Center of Halabja against Anfalization and Genocide of the Kurds
"CHAK"