Obama Breaks Campaign Promise on Armenian Genocide Bill

IsraelNN.com ^ | March 6, 2010 | IsraelNN

[Berlin_Freeper]

Despite campaign promises to support a resolution using the term “genocide” to define the World War I-era killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks, the Barack Obama administration has recently expressed its strong opposition to the approval of such a resolution.

[EagleUSA]

This should not surprise anyone. All part of the Alinsky School of Politics and Radicalism.

[icwhatudo]

This is about the execution of Christians by Muslims. Is it any wonder what side Obama is on?

[Nosterrex]

The news would be “Obama Keeps Promise.” Now that would really be news. Obama and Carter will go done as the worst POTUS’s in American history.

[Lauren BaRecall]

I thought I heard very recently that the US issued something that finally called it genocide, and that Turkey was angry.

What was this?

[Berlin_Freeper]

What was that?

[Joe Boucher]

Funny thing icwhatudo,
I strongly supported this resolution (for entirely different reasons) a few days ago and was attacked by several saying what a great and necessary alley Turkey is.
I stated that many American service man died as a result of Turkey demanding more Lucre’ to allow us to invade Iraq from their territory.
My favorite nephew dies in Fallujah and I think that may have a lot to do with it.
Still, “Oh my, they are a very large populated country and alley”.
Horse crap. Turkey is a moosie pos.

[Recovering_Democrat]

he is a lying sack of crap. has no one in the media figured this out yet??

[muawiyah]

When the Ottoman Empire broke up (at the end of WWII) it was divided into a number of new nationstates.

The genocide against the Armenians happened before the break-up, and even though the Empire was far from being a democratic republic of some sort, it had a very long history and quite a mix of population, even in Anatolia (the old core area of the Eastern Roman Empire).

The problem with the resolution is it targets only the Turks. It does not include Assyria, Babylon, Hejaz, etc. Certainly the populations there bear as much responsibility for the genocide as the populations in Anatolia.

I think the proponents of this resolution would get more support by lambasting Iraqis, Syrians, Palestinians, Israelis, Saudi Arabians, Yemenis, etc. right along with the Turks.

[chiefqc]

ANYONE who believes ANYTHING mac daddy says is a moron.

[gitmogrunt]

http://www.greek-genocide.org/index1.html

[gitmogrunt]

GENOCIDE SCHOLARS ASSOCIATION OFFICIALLY RECOGNIZES OTTOMAN GENOCIDES AGAINST ARMENIANS, ASSYRIANS,GREEKS, OTHER CHRISTIANS

Issuing Organization: International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS)
Date: December 26, 2007

The International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) has voted overwhelmingly to recognize the genocides inflicted on Assyrian, Greek, Armenian and other Christian and religious minority populations of the Ottoman Empire between 1914 and 1923.

The resolution passed with the support of over eighty percent of IAGS members who voted. The resolution (full text below) declares that “it is the conviction of the International Association of Genocide Scholars that the Ottoman campaign against Christian minorities of the Empire between 1914 and 1923 constituted a genocide against Armenians, Assyrians, and Pontian and Anatolian Greeks.” It “calls upon the government of Turkey to acknowledge the genocides against these populations, to issue a formal apology, and to take prompt and meaningful steps toward restitution.”

“This resolution,” stated IAGS President Gregory Stanton. “is one more repudiation by the world’s leading genocide scholars of the Turkish government’s ninety year denial of the Ottoman Empire’s genocides against its Christian populations, including Assyrians, Greeks, and Armenians. The history of these genocides is clear, and there is no more excuse for the current Turkish government, which did not itself commit the crimes, to deny the facts. The current German government has forthrightly acknowledged the facts of the Holocaust. The Turkish government should learn from the German government’s exemplary acknowledgment of Germany’s past, so that Turkey can move forward to reconciliation with its neighbors.”

The resolution noted that while activist and scholarly efforts have resulted in widespread acceptance of the Armenian genocide, there has been “little recognition of the qualitatively similar genocides against other Christian minorities of the Ottoman Empire.” Assyrians, along with Pontian and Anatolian Greeks, were killed on a scale equivalent in per capita terms to the catastrophe inflicted on the Armenian population of the empire — and by much the same methods, including mass executions, death marches, and starvation. In 1997, the IAGS officially recognized the Armenian genocide.

The resolution stated that “the denial of genocide is widely recognized as the final stage of genocide, enshrining impunity for the perpetrators of genocide, and demonstrably paving the way for future genocides.” The Assyrian population of Iraq, for example, remains highly vulnerable to genocidal attack. Since 2003, Iraqi Assyrians have been exposed to severe persecution and massacres; it is believed that up to half the Assyrian population has fled the country.

For further information, please contact:
Professor Gregory Stanton, IAGS President (IAGSPresident@aol.com)
Telephone: 1-703-448-0222

Resolution on genocides committed by the Ottoman Empire

WHEREAS the denial of genocide is widely recognized as the final stage of
genocide, enshrining impunity for the perpetrators of genocide, and
demonstrably paving the way for future genocides;

WHEREAS the Ottoman genocide against minority populations during and
following the First World War is usually depicted as a genocide against
Armenians alone, with little recognition of the qualitatively similar genocides against
other Christian minorities of the Ottoman Empire;

BE IT RESOLVED that it is the conviction of the International Association of
Genocide Scholars that the Ottoman campaign against Christian
minorities of the Empire between 1914 and 1923 constituted a genocide
against Armenians, Assyrians, and Pontian and Anatolian Greeks.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Association calls upon the government
of Turkey to acknowledge the genocides against these populations, to
issue a formal apology, and to take prompt and meaningful steps toward restitution.

[Lauren BaRecall]

I don’t know. I heard it on a radio news blurb. I know about the armenian genocide, so I’m sure I got what I heard right.