LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

The Boston Herald
March 31, 2010 Wednesday
MA

Can’t forget genocide

In 1915, my grandparents abandoned all of their worldly possessions
and fled their village in Turkey, barely escaping the untold horrors
that were inflicted upon their family and community during the
Armenian Genocide.

I commend Dan Thomasson for his thoughtful piece regarding the
importance of recognizing this terrible moment in Armenian and world
history which today remains unrecognized by the United States as a
genocide ("If ignored, genocide enabled," March 26).

The 1.5 million souls lost, the few remaining survivors and the
world deserve this kind of honesty and recognition with regard to
the first genocide of the 20th century, the Forgotten Genocide,
the Armenian Genocide.

– Rep. Peter J. Koutoujian, Waltham