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    The Riverdale Press
    May 1 2014

    Armenian Genocide was real

    To the editor:

    I just returned from Armenia as part of a bipartisan congressional
    delegation and had the opportunity to mark the 99th anniversary of the
    Armenian Genocide in Yerevan. This horrific chapter in the bloodiest
    century in history, which began in 1915, resulted in the slaughter of
    1.5 million innocent Armenians.

    These murders were a terrible tragedy for the Armenian people. They
    still bear the scars today, and the barbarity inflicted on the
    Armenians also led to a century of genocide and ethnic-cleansing.

    When Hitler sneered, "Who after all speaks today of the annihilation
    of the Armenians?," we see the link between indifference to the
    Armenians and the murder of six million Jews. This same mindset has
    influenced too many thuggish leaders over the past century --leaders
    convinced that they can kill and brutalize their peoples with
    impunity.

    We owe it to history and to humanity to remember the victims of the
    Armenian genocide -- for their sake, and for the sake of all of us.

    Turkey needs to, at a minimum, apologize to Armenians and acknowledge
    the crimes of its forefathers. By offering his condolences for those
    who died, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has taken a
    welcome step forward -- but his words fall far short of an official
    apology.

    Turkey owes that to itself, too, for Turkish society will be stronger
    for having acknowledged the truth.

    I want to express to the Armenian people my great sorrow and deepest
    condolences. And I say to them, as we say regarding the Holocaust,
    "Never again."

    Rep. Eliot Engel

    http://riverdalepress.com/stories/Armenian-Genocide-was-real,54242

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