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ELIE WIESEL: EVENTS OF 1915 WERE GENOCIDE
Yerkir
30.10.2007 18:21
YEREVAN (YERKIR) - Laureate of the Nobel Peace Prize Elie Wiesel
declared that the events at the turn of the past century were genocide.
"I think that if the word "genocide" existed at the time, the events
that befell the Armenians would have been called genocide," Holocaust
survivor Elie Wiesel said in an interview with the "Philadelphia
Jewish Voice."
"For many years I have been struggling for the Armenians' right
to remember. How can I tell the Armenians they have no right to
remember, having struggled for the Jews' right to remember throughout
my lifetime?
But I understand the position of the Bush Administration. Fortunately,
as a private citizen I do not need to worry about a Turkish
passport. I'm assured Armenians are victims, and as a Jew I must
stand by Armenians," the Nobel Prize Laureate said.
Yerkir
30.10.2007 18:21
YEREVAN (YERKIR) - Laureate of the Nobel Peace Prize Elie Wiesel
declared that the events at the turn of the past century were genocide.
"I think that if the word "genocide" existed at the time, the events
that befell the Armenians would have been called genocide," Holocaust
survivor Elie Wiesel said in an interview with the "Philadelphia
Jewish Voice."
"For many years I have been struggling for the Armenians' right
to remember. How can I tell the Armenians they have no right to
remember, having struggled for the Jews' right to remember throughout
my lifetime?
But I understand the position of the Bush Administration. Fortunately,
as a private citizen I do not need to worry about a Turkish
passport. I'm assured Armenians are victims, and as a Jew I must
stand by Armenians," the Nobel Prize Laureate said.