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Congress
Must Pass the Armenian Genocide Resolution |
Posted:
11.15.07
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Junior Kim Kinden argues that the Armenian Genocide resolution
would give overdue acknowledgment to the victims of a tragic event.
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October 10, the House Foreign Affairs Committee approved the resolution
and around mid-November the House of Representatives will cast
their votes and come up with the final verdict. They should pass
the resolution because the Turkish government needs to recognize
this tragic event as a genocide.
The Armenian Genocide began in 1915, during the Ottoman Empire,
and ended in 1917. During that time there was at least 1.5 million
Armenians murdered out of 2.5 million.
The House of Representatives should pass this resolution because
the Armenian Genocide is not that different from the Holocaust.
The Holocaust had way over 1.5 million victims, but they still
died for no real reason, just like the Armenians who were murdered.
Also, they were starved and tortured just like the Jewish victims
of the Holocaust.
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Honoring
the dead |
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Another reason that the House of Representatives should pass
the resolution is because the Armenian people and survivors deserve
to have this tragedy recognized.
During death marches that occurred, Turkish government soldiers
would allow those who were weak or those that had been killed
to fall where they died.
They left them there, with no grave marker or anything. The victims
of the Armenian Genocide should be respected and remembered, not
ignored.
The House of Representative has a large decision to make in mid-November.
They will decide if this tragic Armenian event will be considered
a genocide or not.
There is no reason why they shouldn't pass the resolution. Turkey
shouldn't be angry with the United States if they accepted this
tragedy for what it was: genocide.
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--Kim
Kinden is a junior in high school in Springfield, Penn.
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