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(LA Times) Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy students contemplated human rights Tuesday when visitor Raffi Hamparian, chair of the Armenian National Committee of America<\/a>, spoke about the Armenian Genocide, the persistence of its deniers and how to keep history from repeating itself.<\/p>\n

His visit \u2014 made at the request of FSHA senior Lara Minassians, founder and president of the school\u2019s Armenian Club \u2014 fell one day after Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day, a commemoration marked by Armenians worldwide<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought this would be a perfect way to inform people about what happened,\u201d said the 17-year-old Glendale resident. \u201cSomething so important should be known \u2014 if your peers don\u2019t know about it, there\u2019s no effort or awareness to correct it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Starting in 1915, an estimated 1.5 million Armenians were massacred at the hands of the Ottoman Turks while many more were displaced from their homes during a perilous mass migration. Modern-day Turkey still denies the World War I-era deaths were genocide, a claim the U.S. government has left largely unchallenged.<\/p>\n

In three classroom talks, Hamparian encouraged students to be \u201cupstanders,\u201d who speak out against wrongs, rather than hapless bystanders.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll of us think we would never be bystanders to something wrong,\u201d he said. \u201cBut the truth is the difference between being an upstander, and someone who challenges something like that, and being a bystander is a very fine line.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hamparian shared the story of William Proxmire, a Democratic senator from Wisconsin who delivered 3,211 speeches on the Senate floor from 1967 to 1986 urging the federal government to adopt the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.<\/p>\n

In 1988, one week before the senator\u2019s 73rd birthday, the Proxmire Act was signed into law.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat milestone was accomplished because one man believed so fiercely in the concept of living in a world without genocide,\u201d he told students in English teacher Mark Bernstein\u2019s class.<\/p>\n

The speaker discussed genocide denial, a phenomenon Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel described as a \u201cdouble killing\u201d in that it purges not just lives, but also the memories of those lives. Hamparian categorized denial in the United States and Turkey as a sophisticated convolution of facts, strengthened by economic ties.<\/p>\n

Beyond the willingness of nation states to address history\u2019s wrongs, individuals have a powerful role to play in preventing future genocides, Hamparian said. The first step is education.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf a crime is unpunished, it very well will be repeated,\u201d Hamparian said. \u201cThat\u2019s why from us it\u2019s required to be eternally vigilant. I think we honor the victims by making sure the next genocide doesn\u2019t occur.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sophomores Grace Lawlor and Julia Powers said the discussion made them think more deeply about a subject only briefly touched upon in history textbooks.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, politics is very complicated, but I don\u2019t think it\u2019s OK that the United States and Turkish governments are completely denying it,\u201d Lawlor said. \u201cThey have to take action.\u201d<\/p>\n

Compared to the Holocaust, which is much more documented and discussed in the traditional school curriculum, Powers said the Armenian Genocide is barely covered in school.<\/p>\n

\u201cConsidering how many Armenians were persecuted, I feel it was another holocaust,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Sara Cardine – Contact Reporter<\/p>\n

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Photo: Raffi Hamparian, chairman of the Armenian National Committee of America, visited Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy Tuesday to talk with students about the Armenian Genocide. (Courtesy of Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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