RA NATIONAL ASSEMBLY SPEAKER HOVIK ABRAHAMYAN’S MESSAGE ON THE OCCASION OF THE MEMORY OF THE GENOCIDE VICTIMS
National Assembly
April 26 2010
Armenia
Dear compatriots, today we are paying tribute to the memory of the
innocent victims of the Armenian Genocide, a genocide that was planned
by a state and was perpetrated in Ottoman Turkey 95 years ago. The most
part of the creative nation was exterminated, deported and deprived of
the Motherland, and its only guilt was being Armenian. It was not only
a crime towards a nation, but it was a crime towards a whole mankind.
Any nation neither morally, nor physically and spiritually cannot
refuse its memory, in which there is duty of soul and call of spirit,
pain of deprivation of Homeland.
The Armenian is never disputable and will not be, independent of some
others’ wishes and actions to use the genocide as a playing card. Any
document cannot put under doubt the fact of the perpetrated genocide
towards the Armenians in Ottoman Turkey or become an occasion of
bargaining. Any process should not be perceived or observed as denial
from the recognition of the genocide. Going forward through history
should not be through denying the history.
The mankind should see the reality through the repentance of those,
who perpetrated the genocide that was not fully condemned at the
beginning of the 20th century and until now. That repentance is a
debt not only before the victims of the Armenian Genocide, which was
perpetrated in Ottoman Turkey in 1915, and their generations, the whole
Armenian people, but also the whole civilized world. The people and
the country bearing the stigma of perpetrating the genocide have no
right to be considered member of the civilized society, if today they
are continuing to live with that same psychology and way of thinking,
by which the 1915 Armenian Genocide was perpetrated.
Nobody can forget the wound, the massacre, that was not healed, but
have no right to do that, because the restoration of justice is mixed
with the feelings of our soul. But we shall also get strength and find
the vision of the future, which will not impede the progress of the
Armenian people and Armenia, will boost our role in the international
and regional processes.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress