ADAM SCHIFF: GENOCIDE DENIAL IS A "DOUBLE KILLING"

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16.10.2007 16:44

"Last week, the House Foreign Affairs Committee approved a resolution
commemorating the Armenian genocide. As the principal author of the
measure and one of more than 225 sponsors, I was deeply disappointed
by The Post’s editorial in opposition to the bill," Rep. Adam Schiff
wrote in a letter to the Washington Post.

"That the deliberate murder of 1.5 million Armenians between 1915 and
1923 constitutes genocide is almost universally accepted by historians
and is chronicled in great detail in our National Archives. This
wound festers because Turkey refuses to acknowledge the crimes of
its Ottoman forebears.

As Elie Wiesel has said, genocide denial is a "double killing": It
murders the dignity of the survivors and seeks to destroy remembrance
of the crime," Schiff wrote.

"How can a newspaper assert that recognizing the murder of 1.5 million
is somehow ‘petty’?" he said.