USE OF TERM GENOCIDE IN OBAMA’S ADDRESS IS A MATTER OF MORAL IMAGE OF THE U.S.
PanARMENIAN.Net
15.02.2010 18:25 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The impatience the international community and
the Armenian public are waiting with whether the U.S. president use
the term Genocide in his annual address to the Armenian community of
the United States or not is disrespectful to the memory of Genocide
victims, MP Tigran Torosyan, ex-Speaker of the National Assembly of
Armenia told a news conference in Yerevan.
According to Torosyan, whether Obama will use the Genocide term in
his April 24 address is a question of moral image of the U.S and the
Armenia should not interfere with it.
The Armenian Genocide (1915-23) was the deliberate and systematic
destruction of the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire during
and just after World War I. It was characterized by massacres, and
deportations involving forced marches under conditions designed to
lead to the death of the deportees, with the total number of deaths
reaching 1.5 million.
To date, twenty countries and 44 U.S. states have officially recognized
the events of the period as genocide, and most genocide scholars
and historians accept this view. The Armenian Genocide has been also
recognized by influential media including The New York Times, BBC,
The Washington Post and The Associated Press.
The majority of Armenian Diaspora communities were formed by the
Genocide survivors.