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Fiornia gets into debate over Armenian genocide resolution

The Hill, DC
April 24 2010

Fiornia gets into debate over Armenian genocide resolution

By Bridget Johnson – 04/24/10 02:03 PM ET

Senate candidate Carly Fiorina jumped into one of the most contentious
issues in the House on the day when Armenians mark the killing of 1.5
million by the Ottoman Empire.

The House Foreign Affairs Committee narrowly passed a resolution March
4 to call the killings genocide, which sparked a tiff with Turkey in
which the ambassador was recalled to Ankara for a month.

Fiorina issued a statement Saturday afternoon calling on Congress to
pass the resolution and calling on President Barack Obama to recognize
the killings as genocide, which he didn’t in his Armenian Remembrance
Day statement.

`There are periods in our history that are dark and horrible," Fiorina
said. "They reveal the evil that exists in our world and underscore
the atrocities that humankind is capable of committing.

"It is our duty to acknowledge the contemptible, premeditated crimes
and horrible acts of genocide that were committed by the Ottoman Turks
when they drove Armenians from their ancestral homeland during this
dark period of human history," she said.

Armenian communities are prevalent in central and southern California,
with the city of Glendale hosting one of the largest concentrations of
Armenians in the U.S.

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From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box
Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS
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