ONESIDEZERO’S GUITARIST COMMENTS ON BUSH

Metal Underground, MD
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Oct 23 2007

Los Angeles based ONESIDEZERO guitarist, Levon Sultanian, has
commented on the Bush administration’s recommendation to Congress to
reject legislation that would declare the World War I-era killings
of hundreds of thousands of Armenians as genocide.

"Genocide still exists. We saw it in Rwanda (1994) and we see it in
Darfur today. The only thing worse is when a mass killing of a nation
is NOT RECOGNIZED as a GENOCIDE, like the Armenian Genocide," says
Sultanian. "The Bush Administration is worried that the passing of the
Armenian Resolution and recognizing the mass killings in 1915 of 1.5
million Armenians will badly damage the American-Turkish relations
and U.S. interests in the Middle East (Iraq and Afghanistan). How
distorted is our government’s priorities? Are financial stakes more
important than recognizing and acknowledging injustice against
humanity? The Armenian Genocide happened; it is a reality in the
history of mankind. Honest Turks like Orhan Pamuk, Nobel Peace Prize
winner, acknowledge the Armenian Genocide and had the balls to ask
that all Turks accept this dark historic reality."