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    "Geopolitics trumps genocide"
    Our views in brief
    Opinion Section B8
    Wednesday, June 2, 2004

    Fresno Bee Editorial Board:
    Ray Steel Jr.
    Jim Boren
    Edward R. Jimenez
    Russell Minick
    Gail Marshal

    House Speaker Dennis Hastert was in Fresno on Friday for a fund-raiser
    that drew a protest from the local Armenian community. Hastert has
    refused to allow a resolution that recognizes the Armenian Genocide
    come to the floor for a vote.

    Hastert is carrying water for the Bush Administration on the touchy
    issue. Like administrations before it, the Bush administration,
    especially the State Department, is afraid of offending the Turkish
    government by designating the savage events of early last century as
    a genocide.

    But the genocide did occur, and that must be recognized by
    our government. Between 1915 and 1923, and estimated 1.5 million
    Armenians were killed at the hands of the Ottoman Turkish empire and
    its successor regime.
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