THE UNITED STATES SHOULD RECOGNIZE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE TO PREVENT SIMILAR CRIMES
Karen Jallatyan
Daily Bruin, UCLA
March 30 2010
CA
On March 4, 2010, the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of
Representatives approved HR 252, which would formally recognize
the catastrophic mass killings of Armenians at the beginning of the
20th century as genocide. I firmly believe that the entire House of
Representatives should set the record straight about one of the major
humanitarian crises of our time and recognize the Armenian Genocide
as well.
As senators, Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton all
recognized the Armenian Genocide before entering the executive branch
as president, vice president, and secretary of state, respectively. In
addition, 42 U.S. states, including California, and more than 20
nations have recognized the killings as a genocide, the latest being
Sweden; its parliament passed an Armenian Genocide resolution on March
11. The Armenian Genocide is one of the most significant human rights
crises of our times; it happened at the beginning of the 20th century
and ushered the way for future genocides such as the Holocaust.
Nowadays, the international community’s inability to prevent and punish
perpetrators of genocide, for one thing, let the current genocide in
Darfur unfold before our very eyes.
By formally recognizing the Armenian Genocide, our House of
Representatives will make a significant move in holding to
responsibility the perpetrators of crimes against humanity and in
having greater chances of ending current and future ones.
Jallatyan is a fourth-year comparative literature and philosophy
student.
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