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    Locals write to Australian Prime Minister demanding change in position

    Source: armenia.com.au | Saturday, 02 August 2014

    http://www.armenia.com.au/news/Australia-News/English/37629/Locals-write-to-Australian-Prime-Minister-demanding-change-in-position


    SYDNEY: A group of Armenian-Australians residing in Prime Minister
    Tony Abbott's electorate of Warringah have written to him demanding
    his Foreign Minister Julie Bishop retracts her recent statement
    explicitly denying the Armenian Genocide.

    In a letter addressed to the Australian Turkish Advocacy Alliance,
    Bishop extraordinarily denied the historical reality of the first
    genocide of the 20th century by stating "we, do not however, recognise
    these events as 'genocide'." This outright denial, according to the
    Armenian National Committee of Australia (ANC Australia), "takes
    Australia almost as far back as Turkey on this issue".

    In addition to an online letter drive initiated by ANC Australia,
    which attracted over 500 complaint emails to Bishop's inbox, a number
    community members who reside in Killarney Heights, Forestville, Manly,
    Beauty Point, Beacon Hill and Balgowlah have written to their local
    Member of Parliament, Prime Minister Abbott to ensure their anger is
    heard.

    "ANC Australia has received copies of these letters sent from
    understandably disgusted members of our community, all of whom are
    direct descendants of survivors of the Armenian Genocide," said ANC
    Australia Executive Director, Vache Kahramanian. "It is with this sort
    of direct involvement in the political process that we can expect the
    answers we demand from our leaders."

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