ADL statement on Armenian genocide reassures Watertown

Boston Globe, United States

by David Dahl, Regional Editor October 19, 2008 07:08 PM

Clyde L. Younger, the Town Council’s president, said he now feels
comfortable with assurances from the Anti-Defamation League’s national
leader, Abraham H. Foxman, that the organization recognizes the
Armenian genocide.

His change of heart followed Foxman’s tersely worded letter to Younger
on Oct. 3, reaffirming the league’s position that had been posted on
its New England office’s website in August. The statement read in
part, "ADL has never denied the tragic and painful events perpetrated
by the Ottoman Empire against the Armenians, and we have referred to
those massacres and atrocities as genocide."

Last month, the Town Council asked Foxman to clarify the league’s
stance in person, after a senior official from Blue Cross and Blue
Shield of Massachusetts had rebuffed the council’s request that the
company drop its support for the league’s No Place for Hate
program. The Blue Cross official said the insurance company was
satisfied that the ADL had acknowledged the Armenian deaths in 1915-17
as genocide.

— Christina Pazzanese

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

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