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    SYSTEM OF A DOWN TAKES GENOCIDE AFFIRMATION CENTER STAGE

    http://asbarez.com/112306/system-of-a-down-takes-genocide-affirmation-center-stage/
    Wednesday, July 31st, 2013

    LOS ANGELES~WSystem of a Down lead singer Serj Tankian challenged
    a capacity crowd at their July 29th Hollywood Bowl show to imagine
    a world in which those who claim to speak for the international
    community remained silent on the Holocaust ~V as they do on the
    Turkish Government~Rs genocide perpetrated against its Armenian,
    Greek and Assyrian populations from 1915-1923.

    With Daron Malakian~Rs soulful riffs of the Armenian ballad ~SZepiuri
    Nman~T (Like a Breeze) in the background, Tankian stated:

    ~SImagine if this is the 1940s, and World War II had just started,
    and America decided not to enter the war on the side of Britain.~T

    ~SImagine if, Americans became allies with Nazi Germany and decided
    that we~Rre going to push away the Holocaust, never use the word
    Holocaust in Government policy.~T

    ~SImagine what a life that would be.~T

    ~SImagine being Jewish and living in L.A. and not hearing your
    President or your Congress use the word Holocaust.~T

    ~SThat~Rs exactly what Armenians, Greeks, and Assyrians feel when
    our government doesn~Rt use the word genocide.~T

    The four members of System of a Down have been at the forefront of
    calling on the U.S., and international community as a whole, to work
    toward a truthful and just resolution of the Armenian Genocide, and
    all genocides, since the very inception of their Grammy award-winning
    band. Their efforts are spotlighted in the documentary ~SSCREAMERS~T ~V
    which highlights international inaction in the face of the Armenian and
    Darfur genocides. Tankian and System of a Down drummer John Dolmayan
    travelled to Washington, DC in April, 2006, for a three-day advocacy
    campaign urging Congress to speak truthfully about this crime.

    Tankian made a short video in April, 2009, viewed more than 330,00
    times, urging President Obama to honor his campaign pledge to
    properly commemorate the Armenian Genocide. Successive annual April
    24th statements by the President have stopped short of referencing
    the crime as ~Qgenocide.~R

    Watch a segment of the film SCREAMERS, including a performance of
    System~Rs powerful anti-denial anthem P.L.U.C.K.

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