Pan Armenian News
RUSSIAN STATE DUMA CONDEMNED AREMNIAN GENOCIDE THIS DAY 10 YEARS AGO
14.04.2005 07:43
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ This day 10 years ago the State Duma of Russia adopted a
statement on Condemning the Genocide of the Armenian People in 1915-1923 on
14 April 1995, Russky Sever news agency reported. The mass slaughter and
deportation is the most tragic event in the history of the Armenian people.
Within 1915-1923 over 1.5 million Armenians were killed, 600 thousand of
those who escaped from the slaughter, spread around the globe. Armenians
throughout the world have been struggling for many years to attain the
official and unconditional recognition of the Armenian Genocide by the
international community, as such a grave crime against humanity cannot have
a statute of limitation. Argentine and Uruguay were the first to recognize
the fact of the Genocide in 1965, then the acknowledgement by the
parliaments of Cyprus (1990), Russia (1995), Greece (1996), Lebanon (1997),
Belgium (1998) followed. In 2000 the Armenian Genocide was recognized by the
Italian and French parliaments, as well as the Vatican leader John Paul II.
The Genocide is recognized by the 29 out of the 50 US states. On 15 November
2000 the European Parliament passed a resolution demanding that Turkey
recognize the fact of the Genocide.