Turkey must accept its own history: The world expresses its attitude to the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire
ArmInfo.The deputy chairman of the German Bundestag, Edelhard Bulman, calls on the Turkish government to accept its own history. "Recognition of the truth helps to remain sober and to avoid hatred, only those who accept it can come into contact with the consequences of the incident and learn from this," Bullman stated in the German History Museum in Berlin during an event dedicated to the memory of the victims of the Armenian Genocide.
According to the deputy chairman of the German Bundestag, she will never forget the feelings and impressions that she experienced when visiting the Tsitsernakaberd memorial complex of the Armenian Genocide victims in Yerevan. She recalled that over 200 representatives of the intelligentsia, journalists, deputies, doctors, teachers were arrested in Istanbul overnight on April 24 overnight. "All of them united one thing that they were Armenians, it was the organized destruction of the Armenian, today we also remember those who passed through this hell and remained alive," she said. Bulman noted the importance of the adoption by the German Bundestag of the resolution on the Armenian Genocide, stating the historical responsibility of the Germans. "German soldiers often became organizers of the links, our diplomats knew about the pogroms, but did not interfere in this process, which is why we bear the burden of our responsibility, and that is why the Bundestag adopted this resolution." Recognizing the truth helps to remain sober and avoid hatred. Who accepts it, can come into contact with the consequences of the incident and learn from it. Racism and aggressive nationalism always pose a threat to civilization. Our mission is that in the future never happened something that should not have been in the past," the deputy chairman of the Bundestag stressed.
"If we ignore the atrocities of the past, we are destined to repeat them," said Democratic leader in the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi. She recalls in her message that 102 years have passed since the first steps to implement the Armenian Genocide. "Ottoman leaders killed 1.5 million Armenian men, women and children in the following years, and the truth of these terrible events was often denied, but the historical fact is obvious," she said. According to her, ignoring the atrocities of the past, it is destined to repeat them. "On this gloomy day, commemorating both the victims of the Armenian Genocide and the six million Jews killed as a result of the Holocaust, we reaffirm our commitment to continue talking about the dead. We must defend the truth and renew our commitment: never again," Palosi said.
Meanwhile, Congressman Adam Schiff expressed his disappointment with the statement of US President Donald Trump in connection with the 102nd anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. "Today we received another disappointing statement from another president who refused to recognize as genocide the murder of 1.5 million Armenians in 1915-1923," Schiff said. "President Trump joined the long list of presidents from both Republicans and Democrats who do not want to confront with Turkey, and made the US part of the campaign of denial," he said, more than 100 years ago, the Ottoman Empire implemented a brutal campaign to kill, rape, deport Armenians, killed 1.5 million women and children during the first Genocide of the 20th century", noting that even today hundreds of thousands of representatives of religious minorities face the threat of their existence because of the "Islamic state" in Syria and Iraq, he said that it is all the more urgent that the Congress recognizes the historical fact of the Armenian Genocide and opposes modern genocide and crimes against humanity.
According to the Vice-President of Argentina, Gabriella Michetti, today the memory of the Armenian Genocide helps to prevent the recurrence of such pogroms. "When we talk about genocide, we are talking about a crime against humanity," she said, recalling that in 2007 the Argentine National Congress passed law 26.199, which recognized the events of 1915 as genocide.