May UK give up its policy of Armenian Genocide denial?
24.10.2009 18:52 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ For the first time since 1918, members of British
parliament who spoke the truth about the Armenian Genocide were
appointed rapporteurs on Armenia and Turkey.
MP Chris Bryant called on the House of Commons to recognize the
Armenian Genocide, freelance French journalist Jean Eckian told
PanARMENIAN.Net.
Mr. Bryant reminded that the previous Cabinets refrained from any
assessment of the 1915 events, saying that `historians can’t come to a
conclusion on the issue.’
`However, Geoff Hoon, Dennis Macshane, Doug Alexander, Baroness Ramsey
Baroness Scotland , Lord Treisman and Lord Malloch-Brown never
consulted any prominent historian,’ he said. `And the person
responsible for the policy of denial is Jack Straw, currently Minister
of Justice.’
According to Mr. Bryant, to show solidarity with Armenia, the
parliament should urge resignation of Minister Straw, who disseminated
lies for so many years.
In a parliamentary debate in 1921, Sir Neville Chamberlain said, `I
cannot think without something like horror and dismay of the
abominable barbarities which have been practised in Armenia, and if I
condemn Turkish rule in Armenia it is not because it is Mohammedan
rule over Christian people, but because it is a barbarous and brutal
rule, which would disgrace whatever Government in which it
originated.’