Congress is reconvening Wed – Vote for HR 252, Armenian Genocide Resolution, possible

If you do not follow the politics concerning the United States Government’s recognition of the Armenian Genocide, you may not realize the news reported by Asbarez is a significant development (see link below). Despite threats from Turkey, President Obama is not actively pressuring Congress to dismiss the resolution. Past administrations have buckled to Turkey’s demands for political purposes, for decades. However, when President Obama was a senator, he made his views clear that he knows a genocide was committed by the Turkish Government at the beginning of the 20th century.

When you begin to learn about the history surrounding the Armenian Genocide, the eyewitness accounts and records locked in the government archives of the United States, France, and Germany, offer overwhelming evidence that genocide was committed by Turkey. Non-Armenian government diplomats, missionaries, doctors, and nurses, are among the individuals who recorded what they witnessed in letters, cables (telegraphs), photographs, and memoirs. The New York Times, National Geographic and other periodicals of the time also documented what journalists saw happening in Turkey.

Armenians all over the world can tell you some of what their grandparents and great grandparents told them. But, like my grandfather, most of what happened to the survivors remained burned into their memories and souls without ever being fully shared with anyone. Tonight, Armenians across America have hope that tomorrow the few remaining Armenian Genocide survivors may live to know that our government finally publicly will recognize the Armenian Genocide. Please read some of the other pages on this blog to learn more.

White House Indifferent on Genocide Resolution
Asbarez.com | December 21, 2010

The following outstanding documentary and books are highly recommended:

‘Aghet: Armenian Genocide‘ an award-winning documentary by Germany’s ARD Television and Eric Friedler

‘A Shameful Act’, one of the definitive books about the Armenian Genocide written by Turkish scholar Taner Akcam

‘Armenian Golgotha’ by Grigoris Balakian, an Armenian priest’s devastating eyewitness account of the Armenian Genocide

‘Ambassador Morgenthau’s Story‘ by Henry I. Morgenthau, the American Ambassador at Constantinople from 1913-1916

If you haven’t called your Congressional representative and the House Majority Leader, it will take you less than one minute to make these calls. All you need to know is your zip code: MAKE THE CALL TO VOTE YES FOR HOUSE RESOLUTION 252

Read the full text of House Resolution 252

National Geographic 1915 and 1919: Armenia and the Armenian Genocide

Continuing with my book research, I came across two in-depth, historical accounts of Armenia and the Armenian Genocide, in National Geographic Magazine:

Armenia and the Armenians
National Geographic | October 1915

The Land of the Stalking Death: A Journey Through Starving Armenia on an American Relief Train
National Geographic | November 1919

In Sunday school (nearly 30 years ago), Dr. Zaven Daderian told our senior class about the wealth of documentation of the Armenian Genocide in the periodicals of the time, including the New York Times and National Geographic. He was right. See for yourself.

And, thank you Dr. Daderian, for educating us about our history.