90 SECOND PROOF OF THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
   YEREVAN, APRIL 6, ARMENPRESS: The Armenian Assembly of America
(AAA) said on March 22, 2005 Ross Vartian, Executive Director of the
AAA, was interviewed by Al Hurra TV network (a U.S. State Department
sponsored TV network broadcast to the Arabic speaking world).
   Mr. Vartian was given 90 seconds to answer the question:
“Armenians claim that the Turks committed genocide – what proof is
there?” If his response was longer than 90 seconds, it would have
been edited. Mr. Vartian used the full 90 seconds without going over
that time limit.
   Below is the English version of Mr. Vartian’s response.
   “The U.S. National Archives contain thousands of pages documenting
the premeditated extermination of the Armenian people. The official
records of many other countries corroborate the evidence gathered by
U.S. diplomats, including Ottoman Turkey’s WW I friends and foes.
   At the end of WW I, a Turkish Military Tribunal was convened. The
Prime Minister, the Minister of War, the Minister of the Navy and the
Minister of Education were declared guilty by unanimous vote of the
Tribunal.
   Adolph Hitler understood the world’s tendency to not act on its
moral outrage and to move on when he said on the eve of his invasion
of Poland, “Who, after all, speaks nowadays of the annihilation of
the Armenians.”
   Today a growing list of nations and intergovernmental bodies has
affirmed the facts of the Armenian Genocide.
   Additionally, 126 Holocaust and Genocide scholars declared the
Armenian Genocide an incontestable fact, urged all democracies to
recognize this crime and called upon Turkey to do the same.
   The International Center for Transitional Justice was asked to
study the applicability of the UN Genocide Convention to this crime
against humanity. It found that “the events, viewed collectively, can
thus be said to include all of the elements of the crime of genocide
as defined in the Convention.”
   Pope John Paul, Nobel Laureates Bishop Desmond Tutu and Elie
Weisel, and most recently renowned Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk, all
have affirmed the truth. To enhance its standing in the international
community, to come to terms with its genocidal legacy, and for the
sake of its evolving democracy, Turkey should face the facts of
history.”
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