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    PRESS RELEASE
    Office of Assemblymember Portantino
    CONTACT: Wendy Gordon
    626.720.3409 mobile
    626.577.9944 office
    626 577-9944/626 720-3409


    August 31, 2012


    Assemblymember Portantino Condemns Recent anti-Armenian Actions


    "Ordinarily I would not comment on a local land use issue in my
    district, but I was quite concerned by comments made by members of the
    Turkish Government denying the history surrounding the Armenian
    Genocide. There is nothing vague or unclear about the Genocide:
    innocent Armenians were slaughtered in what historians have clearly
    and justifiably proclaimed was the first Genocide of the 20th Century.
    Our prayers and thoughts should always be with the surviving family
    members, not in opposing a proposed Genocide Memorial in Pasadena in
    order to deny and obscure the facts that caused the deaths of 1.5
    million Armenians.

    In addition, I am concerned about rising international anti-Armenian
    sentiments. I am particularly alarmed about press reports of Hungary's
    extradition and release of Ramil Safarov, who was convicted in Hungary
    for the death of an Armenian Lieutenant on a NATO training mission.
    To hear that this man is now free in Azerbaijan is an insult to
    international justice and a significant and alarming concern to the
    proud Armenian American families living in my district"

    Assemblymember Anthony J. Portantino (D- La Caņada Flintridge)

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