ARMENIAN NEOCONSERVATIVES CALL ON CHINA TO RECOGNIZE GENOCIDE

PanARMENIAN.Net
25.02.2010 14:48 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Around 60 representatives of National Neoconservative
Movement (NNM) of Armenia held a rally at Chinese Embassy in Armenia
Thursday, February 25.

Following the appeal of NNM chairman Edgar Gegelyan to recognize the
Armenian Genocide, demonstrators passed a letter addressed to the
Ambassador of Peoples’ Republic of China.

The letter urges PRC to recognize the Armenian Genocide and acknowledge
Azeri aggression against Nagorno Karabakh as a consequence of
pan-Turkic program, drawing analogies between reunification of Taiwan
with China and Artsakh with Armenia.

The Armenian Genocide (1915-23) was the deliberate and systematic
destruction of the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire during
and just after World War I. It was characterized by massacres, and
deportations involving forced marches under conditions designed to
lead to the death of the deportees, with the total number of deaths
reaching 1.5 million.

The majority of Armenian Diaspora communities were formed by the
Genocide survivors.

To date, twenty countries and 44 U.S. states have officially recognized
the events of the period as genocide, and most genocide scholars and
historians accept this view.

The conflict between Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan broke out in
1988, as result of the ethnic cleansing the latter launched in the
final years of the Soviet Union. The Karabakh War was fought from
1991 (when the Nagorno Karabakh Republic was proclaimed) to 1994
(when a ceasefire was sealed by Armenia, NKR and Azerbaijan). Most
of Nagorno Karabakh and a security zone consisting of 7 regions is
now under control of NKR defense army. Armenia and Azerbaijan are
holding peace talks mediated by the OSCE Minsk Group up till now.