{"id":15659,"date":"2019-03-22T05:23:42","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T05:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ancnews.info\/?p=15659"},"modified":"2019-03-22T05:23:42","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T05:23:42","slug":"alabama-becomes-49th-u-s-state-to-recognize-the-armenian-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ancnews.info\/?p=15659","title":{"rendered":"Alabama Becomes 49th U.S. State to Recognize the Armenian Genocide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Alabama Governor Kay Ivey Declares the Month of April as \u201cGenocide Awareness Month\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>MOBILE, AL \u2013 Alabama officially became the 49th U.S. state to recognize the Armenian Genocide when Governor Kay Ivey issued a powerful proclamation recognizing the Ottoman Turkish Empire\u2019s centrally-planned and executed annihilation of close to three million Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians and Syriacs from 1915-1923, according to the Armenian National Committee of America \u2013 Eastern Region (ANCA-ER).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe welcome this proclamation by Governor Ivey, making Alabama the 49th state in the union to officially re-affirm this international crime against humanity,\u201d said ANCA-ER Board Chairman Steve Mesrobian. \u201cThis proclamation serves as a powerful reminder that truth about genocides should never be held hostage to the denial of its perpetrators and those who continue to profit from that crime. We salute the Alabama Armenian community and our ANCA coalition partners who together stand united in our efforts to create awareness about the Armenian Genocide and prevent future such atrocities,\u201d said Mesrobian.<\/p>\n<p>While Governor Ivey\u2019s proclamation notes that the Ottoman Turkish government\u2019s crime \u201cstill requires justice,\u201d it also provides a glimpse into Alabama\u2019s active participation in the Near East Relief\u2019s efforts during the Armenian Genocide as well as the U.S. recognition of the Armenian Genocide in 1951. The proclamation recognizes genocides that followed the Armenian Genocide as well as the act of genocide committed against Christians and Yazidis by ISIL, recognizing that proper commemoration and awareness and education about the Armenian Genocide helps ensure that similar atrocities do not occur again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am so proud of the work that the ANC of Alabama and our friends in Alabama have done to obtain this official recognition of the Armenian Genocide,\u201d said ANC of Alabama activist Jack Hagopian. \u201cArmenians have long called Alabama home, aiding in the education and awareness of the Armenian Genocide throughout the state. It brings me great pleasure to know that our work has been successful. I know that we will continue to educate, motivate and activate our community to ensure that the cycle of genocide comes to an end.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With the addition of Alabama as the 49th state, Mississippi remains as the last U.S. state to officially recognize the Armenian Genocide.<br \/>\nThe full text of Gov. Ivey\u2019s proclamation is provided below.<\/p>\n<p>#####<\/p>\n<p><strong>PROCLAMATION<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>WHEREAS<\/strong>, during the Armenian Genocide from 1915-1923, one and one-half million ethnic Armenian men, women and children as well as over one million Greeks, Assyrians, Syriacs and others were massacred as part of the planned complete eradication of those indigenous communities by the Ottoman Turkish Empire during the first modern genocide that still requires justice; and<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHEREAS<\/strong>, Near East Relief&#8217;s efforts, with the active participation of the State of Alabama, resulted in delivering unprecedented 117 million dollars of assistance from the American people between 1915 and 1930, that directly resulted in the salvation of the Christian Armenian, Greek, and Assyrian survivors from being completely annihilated by the genocide; and<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHEREAS<\/strong>, Raphael Lemkin cited both the systemic destruction of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire and the Jews, Gypsies, Poles and others by the Nazis when he coined the word Genocide in 1943; and<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHEREAS<\/strong>, the United States government first officially acknowledged the Armenian Genocide in 1951, in a document submitted to the International Court of Justice; and<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHEREAS<\/strong>, the Republic of Armenia, the Hellenic Republic, the Republic of Cyprus, and the Republic of Artsakh are now free, independent, democratic states and strategic allies of the United States of America in the region; and<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHEREAS<\/strong>, other cases of genocide include the killings in Cambodia in 1975, the massacres in Bosnia in 1992, the slaughter in Rwanda in 1994 and now in the 21st century, the displacements and deaths in Darfur as well as targeting of religious minorities by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in the Middle East; and<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHEREAS<\/strong>, the United States House of Representatives adopted H. 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Res. 75 in 2016, declaring the atrocities perpetrated by the ISIL against Christians, Yezidis and other religious and ethnic minorities in Iraq and Syria war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide; and<\/p>\n<p><strong>NOW, THEREFORE<\/strong>, I, Kay Ivey, Governor of the State of Alabama, do hereby proclaim April 2019 as GENOCIDE AWARENESS MONTH.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alabama Governor Kay Ivey Declares the Month of April as \u201cGenocide Awareness Month\u201d MOBILE, AL \u2013 Alabama officially became the 49th U.S. state to recognize the Armenian Genocide when Governor Kay Ivey issued a powerful proclamation recognizing the Ottoman Turkish Empire\u2019s centrally-planned and executed annihilation of close to three million Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians and Syriacs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15660,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[115],"tags":[127],"class_list":["post-15659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-anca-eastern-region"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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