ARMENIAN LAWYERS’ ASSOCIATION: OBAMA RECOGNIZED THE GENOCIDE

PanARMENIAN.Net
04.03.2010 11:29 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ It’s erroneous to think that the U.S. President
did not recognize the Armenian Genocide because he did not use the
term Genocide, according to the Armenian lawyers’ association.

"The term Genocide is comparatively new, introduced in the
international practice by Polish lawyer of Jewish descent Raphael
Lemkin in 1944. Before, each nation that survived genocide gave it
its own name – Holocaust, Mets Eghern. Barack Obama used the term
Mets Eghern which is identical to a more modern term Genocide,"
the association said in a statement.

The Armenian lawyers’ association also emphasized that the term Mets
Eghern was used twice and was qualified as an attempt to exterminate
the Armenian nation. "It’s obvious that the U.S. President put the
same meaning into the term Mets Eghern as we, Armenians, do… We
appreciate highly the congressional initiative and call for adoption
of the Armenian Genocide Resolution," the statement said.