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    IAGS PRESIDENT DR. GREG STANTON SPEAKS OF IMPORTANCE OF CAPITOL HILL RECOGNITION OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

    Noyan Tapan
    April 30, 2008

    WASHINGTON, APRIL 30, ARMENIANS TODAY - NOYAN TAPAN. On April 23
    International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) President,
    Dr. Greg Stanton, gave keynote remarks at the Capitol Hill Observance
    of the Armenian Genocide.

    Citing the House Foreign Affairs Committee passage last year of the
    Armenian Genocide resolution, Stanton explained that by postponing
    a full House vote, "Again the United States surrendered to the
    ninety-year campaign of denial by the government of Turkey. The State
    Department and the White House have continued the cowardly policies
    of every Secretary of State since Lansing, who have considered it
    more important to placate the Turkish government than to be truthful
    about history."

    Dr. Stanton went on to explain the eight stages of genocide and
    the dangerous cost of genocide denial both to the victims and the
    perpetrators.

    He described the benefits of genocide recognition, stating that
    "telling the truth would ultimately be good for U.S.-Turkish relations,
    because they would no longer be based on diplomatic lies." Passage of
    the Armenian Genocide Resolution, he noted, would also "pay tribute
    to America's first international human rights movement. The Foreign
    Service Officers and prominent individuals such as Theodore Roosevelt,
    Ambassador Henry Morgenthau, and Cleveland Dodge, who did so much to
    help the Armenians, exemplify America's legacy of moral leadership."
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