{"id":17698,"date":"2014-04-29T10:31:31","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T10:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ancnews.info\/?p=2195"},"modified":"2014-04-29T10:31:31","modified_gmt":"2014-04-29T10:31:31","slug":"statement-by-the-ancc-on-the-occasion-of-the-99th-anniversary-commemoration-of-the-armenian-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ancnews.info\/?p=17698","title":{"rendered":"Statement by the ANCC on the occasion of the 99th Anniversary Commemoration of the Armenian Genocide"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Guests,<\/p>\n

At the doorsteps of the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, let me extend expressions of gratitude towards the Canadian Parliament, the Senate, and the Government for their recognition of the historical fact of the Armenian Genocide of 1915.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat this House acknowledge the Armenian Genocide of 1915 and condemn this act as crime against humanity\u201d<\/p>\n

Ten years have already passed since the Canadian Parliament adopted the M:380 resolution recognizing the Armenian Genocide of 1915.<\/p>\n

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ANC Canada President, Dr. Girair Basmadjian<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Two years before that, a similar resolution had passed in the Senate, for which we are thankful.<\/p>\n

Two years later, the Canadian Government recognized the Genocide officially and we had been very grateful for the acknowledgement.<\/p>\n

Since that time, changes have taken place on the International Political arena: some Parliaments and states recognized the Armenian Genocide, while others did not.<\/p>\n

It is significant, that the ones who do recognize it base their decisions on historical facts and conscience, while those who refuse the recognition state reasons of political expediency as an excuse.<\/p>\n

This discrepancy in reasoning is, in itself, evidence of the immorality of the politics of denial.<\/p>\n

Not recognizing the Armenian Genocide is encouraging Turkey to persist in its denial of the crime.<\/p>\n

There is not only a moral, but a political responsibility in encouraging denial. It\u2019s not simply a matter of ignoring history, but, in doing so, influencing the present and the future.<\/p>\n

Genocides continue to occur since the perpetrators realized that it is possible to annihilate people, confiscate their possessions and the simply deny the truth.<\/p>\n

Turkey has been executing a strict policy of denial for nearly 100 consecutive years regarding the Armenian Genocide. Despite mounting international pressure by the majority of the Genocide Scholars, by democratic states that have recognized the historical fact, and by prominent Turkish Scholars defying the article 301, Turkey still continues to deny it.<\/p>\n

It is an institutionalized methodological and carefully executed denial carried out with the same care that was taken to execute the very crime.<\/p>\n

The policy of denial is applied both internally and internationally, mobilizing all of its resources to execute it: intensified to an unprecedented degree as the centennial approaches.<\/p>\n

The reaction of the Turkish government against any recognition of the Genocide reaches levels of political hysteria.<\/p>\n

It is noteworthy that the resolutions passed in different parliaments and the political voices of the scholars accuse the government of Turkey of the time of the Genocide, not the present government.<\/p>\n

However, the present Turkish government is so adamant in its denials, so vigorous in its political blackmails and so crude in its anti-Armenian rhetoric that it is automatically accepting responsibility for the deeds of 1915.<\/p>\n

By applying policies of denial in modern-day-politics, the successive Turkish Governments, including the present one, are placing themselves in a position of responsibility for the committed act. At the doorstep of the Centennial of the Armenian Genocide, the Prime Minister of Turkey, Mr. Erdo\u011fan, presents condolences to the grandchildren of the massacred Armenians in 1915. The statement by Mr. Erdogan is woefully inadequate. It is nothing other than a baseless denial. The statement is a desperate effort to appear to be sensitive, all the while being insensitive and a transparent attempt of another form of denial from responsibility. As we enter the 100th year of the Turkish Regime’s denialist policy, Erdo\u011fan’s remarks are not fooling the International community.<\/p>\n

Le climat de terreur et les r\u00e9actions instinctives des autorit\u00e9s turcs envers toute forme de reconnaissance du G\u00e9nocide Arm\u00e9nien, ou le moindre respect accord\u00e9 envers les victimes atteint des niveaux d\u2019hyst\u00e9rie politique.<\/p>\n

Le fait que les r\u00e9solutions adopt\u00e9es \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9chelle mondiale, ainsi que la position de la majorit\u00e9 des acad\u00e9miciens accusent formellement et d\u2019une fa\u00e7on explicite, le gouvernement des Jeunes Turcs de l\u2019\u00e9poque (1915), l\u2019intransigeance du gouvernement actuel reste enti\u00e8re dans sa n\u00e9gation. Il se responsabilise ainsi face aux actes commis en 1915.<\/p>\n

Par le maintien de la n\u00e9gation, le gouvernement turc devient son propre ennemi, voire son pire d\u00e9fenseur.<\/p>\n

Bien que la politique de l\u2019intimidation a \u00e9t\u00e9 lucrative par moments, elle ne sera pas \u00e9ternelle- le gouvernement turc actuel sera le pivot ainsi que la cible de toutes les responsabilit\u00e9s; cons\u00e9quence naturelle de ses intransigeances politiques atteintes de parano\u00efa.<\/p>\n

Hier, le premier ministre Turque a pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 ses condol\u00e9ances sans faire r\u00e9f\u00e9rence a un G\u00e9nocide et se contentant de termes massacre et trag\u00e9die. Une nouvelle approche dans une strat\u00e9gie \u00e9labor\u00e9e de n\u00e9gation dans la perspective du Centenaire du G\u00e9nocide Arm\u00e9nien.<\/p>\n

At the beginning of my speech, I mentioned how grateful we have been for the unequivocal recognition of the Genocide by the Canadian Government; however, recently, with a certain degree of disappointment, we cannot help but notice the hesitancy of the use of the term Genocide by our government, undoubtedly under political pressure of the Turkish government.<\/p>\n

Dr. GIRAIR BASMADJIAN<\/p>\n

PRESIDENT<\/p>\n

Armenian National Committee of Canada<\/p>\n

24\/04\/14<\/p>\n

Ottawa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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