LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF PARLIAMENT OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA ADOPTS RESOLUTION ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

Noyan Tapan
March 31, 2009

CANBERRA, MARCH 31, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. The Legislative
Council of the parliament of South Australia has adopted a resolution,
according to which Armenian Genocide is one of the crimes committed
against humanity. The resolution calls the coalition government of
Australia for officially recognizing the events of 1915 as genocide.

The resolution was submitted to the parliament by leader of Liberal
opposition David Ridgway. Bernard Finnigan from Workers’ Party has
supported the resolution.

According to Marmara daily, the Turkish press wrote in this respect
that for a long time government of South Australia developed
anti-Turkish policy.

This region has become a center of anti-Turkish events.