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    HUNGARY: DK VICE PRESIDENT CRITICIZED FOR DOWNPLAYING SIGNIFICANCE OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

    European Union News
    May 23, 2014 Friday

    Budapest

    Politics Hungary has issued the following news release:

    Democratic Coalition Vice President Ágnes Vadai has sparked anger for
    downplaying the historical significance of the Armenian genocide in
    comments she made to ATV last week.

    Outrage arose because of Vadai's criticism of remarks made by Jobbik's
    Dora Dúro. Dúro complained that the Jewish Holocaust is the only one
    people ever talk about, when there have been many other holocausts
    in history.

    Members of Hungary's Armenian minority sent a letter to ATV, rejecting
    Vadai's arguments and asking the station to disassociate itself from
    the remarks.

    The coordinator of the Armenian Holocaust Centenary, Artin Diramerjan,
    subsequently appeared on ATV expressing his condemnation of Vadai's
    "clumsy, uninformed comments." He added that pretty much without
    exception every member of the Armenian minority in Hungary would have
    been affected in some way by the genocide, and would likely have been
    offended by Vadai's remarks.

    Diramerjan said that the slaughter of Jews in Europe in the 1940s
    had much in common with the brutality carried out on the Armenians
    in Turkey in 1915. He also stated that the word "holocaust" was first
    used in connection with the Armenian genocide.



    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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