“If
you cannot use the word ‘Genocide’ to appropriately mark the Centennial
of the Armenian Genocide, then, Mr. President, it is better that you do
not issue a statement at all.”
After six years of waiting for President Obama to keep his promise, our community’s patience has reached its limits. “The facts are undeniable. An official policy that calls on diplomats to distort the historical facts is an untenable policy,” he once said about the Armenian Genocide. Those words should also apply to America’s chief diplomat himself.
The President could have spoken the truth and stood with the rest of the world, alongside the Pope, the European Parliament, and even Turkey’s WWI allies of Germany and Austria. Instead, President Obama has once again demonstrated an absence of courage and moral fiber, the leader of the most powerful nation in the world crumbling under empty threats from a genocidal Turkey.
Mr. President, the Armenian-American community, and indeed, people of good conscience from all over the world, expect more. If you cannot use the word “Genocide” to appropriately mark the Centennial of the Armenian Genocide, then, Mr. President, it is better that you do not issue a statement at all. The Armenian-American community neither needs nor wants another April 24 statement that does not properly characterize the Armenian Genocide.
Armenian Revolutionary Federation,
Eastern U.S. Central Committee
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