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House Resolution Goes Beyond Genocide Recognition Seeking Truth and Justice

by Harut Sassounian
May 21, 2013
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BY HARUT SASSOUNIAN

In a welcome move, four members of the U.S. House of Representatives have introduced a resolution that advocates a new approach for the pursuit of Armenian rights in Congress, going beyond genocide recognition.

This new bipartisan initiative, introduced by Congressmen David Valadao (R-CA), Adam Schiff (D-CA), Michael Grimm (R-NY), and Frank Pallone (D-NJ), is appropriately titled: “Armenian Genocide Truth and Justice Act.”

It is well-known that the U.S. government has recognized the Armenian Genocide on several occasions, starting in 1951 by the submission of an official document to the International Court of Justice (World Court), followed by Pres. Ronald Reagan’s Presidential Proclamation of April 22, 1981, and through two House resolutions in 1975 and 1984.

The proposed measure calls upon Pres. Obama “to work toward equitable, constructive, and durable Armenian-Turkish relations based upon the Republic of Turkey’s full acknowledgement of the facts and ongoing consequences of the Armenian Genocide, and a fair, just, and comprehensive international resolution of this crime against humanity,” the Armenian National Committee of America reported.

It is high time that Armenian-Americans support congressional efforts that go beyond the mere repetition of the acknowledged facts of Armenian Genocide, and seek the more meaningful goal of justice, which entails the restitution and recovery of the substantial losses suffered as a consequence of the Genocide, including personal and community properties, and the occupied territories of Western Armenia. It is hardly conceivable that anyone would dare to oppose the universally-accepted concept of justice, not even Rejep Tayyip Erdogan, the Prime Minister of Turkey, who heads the ruling ‘Justice and Development Party.’

It is understandable that for many years, it was necessary to seek genocide recognition as most of the world was unaware of the Armenian Genocide. However, as a result of the relentless efforts by the Armenian Diaspora and the Republic of Armenia, there is no longer a need to continue pursuing recognition — having largely prevailed over persistent Turkish denialism. By declaring victory and moving forward to reclaim their just demands, Armenians would avoid falling in the Turkish trap of trying to reconfirm the facts of the Genocide ad nauseam! Meanwhile, the Turkish government would continue its shameful refusal to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide or might engage in the deceptive game of issuing partial and meaningless apologies in order to mislead the international community on the eve of the Genocide’s Centennial.

The new House resolution also seeks to shift the U.S. government’s efforts away from the ill-fated Armenia-Turkey Protocols and refocus the Obama Administration’s attention on Armenia’s just demands from Turkey. The congressional resolution reminds Pres. Obama of his April 24, 2012 statement in which he advocated that “a full, frank, and just acknowledgement of the facts is in all of our interests. Moving forward with the future cannot be done without reckoning with the facts of the past.”

The resolution points out that the Republic of Turkey, rather than “reckoning with the facts of the past,” has “escalated its international campaign of Armenian Genocide denial, maintained its blockade of Armenia, and increased its pressure on the small but growing Turkish civil society movement acknowledging the Armenian Genocide and seeking justice from this systematic campaign of destruction of millions of Armenian, Greek, Assyrian, Pontian, Syriac, and other Christians upon their biblical-era homelands.”

The Congressional resolution further declares that U.S. “national interests in the establishment of equitable, constructive, stable, and durable relations between Armenians and Turks cannot be meaningfully advanced by circumventing or otherwise seeking to avoid materially addressing the central political, legal, security, and moral issue between these two nations: Turkey’s denial of truth and justice for the Armenian Genocide.”

The newly-introduced resolution makes it clear that Armenians, rather than being satisfied by merely regurgitating the well-known facts of the Genocide, demand a just resolution through full and comprehensive restitution.

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Comments 7

  1. Tsayt says:
    9 years ago

    yes, all is good! but will it pass?

    Reply
  2. Zareh says:
    9 years ago

    land is only taken by force. Remember the Wilsonian Armenia that stayed on paper.
    How did we get Artzakh. Did any government pass resolutions saying Artsakh belongs to Armenians.
    Stop wasting Armenian dollars on American politicians. They take the money and give lip service. For one hundred years and millions of dollars spent on congressmen, senators and presidents, did Armenians get anything in return. did we get an inch of land?
    Every Armenian penny should be sent to the Ministry of Defense of Armenia and the Armenian military industrial complex instead of the corrupt western politicians.

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    • Hratch says:
      9 years ago

      We got land because it was in Russia’s national interest. Don’t for a minute think that we did it all on our own. Arms, intelligence and covert operations from Russia all made it happen. No amount of fighting and screaming help anyone!

      Reply
  3. Garo Yeghichian says:
    9 years ago

    Now we will know if President Obama believe`s on Truth and Justice?

    Reply
  4. hi says:
    9 years ago

    1.bravo Zareh.
    2.hratch; fighting helps but screaming does not.

    Reply
  5. Alex Postallian says:
    9 years ago

    What makes the Armenian Genocide so dastardly,and inhuman,it was carefully preplanned,by camel attaturkey,and his murderers,was that a search was organized,house to house,remove all the weapons,so no one could defend themselves.So, the Armenians couldnt defend themselves,which makes the turks LIARS,and Cowards of the Middle East.Of course they only attacked unarmed women,children,old people,proof positive,that COWARDS THEY TRULY HAVE BEEN throughout history.

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