President Barack Obama must be on the Armenian genocide.Ninety - six years after the event, the Armenian genocide remains an ethical problem that go further. In 1915, under the cover of the second world war, the Ottoman Turkish Government implemented a final solution for its Armenian population, some 2.5 million Christians living in their former homeland of 2,500 years and throughout what is today the Turkey; ultimately, more than a million Armenians perished, the rest was sent in the diaspora.
The disaster had such an impact on modern thought that it was the Central pulse in Raphael Lemkin coined the term genocide, and he has so emboldened Adolf Hitler that he urged his military advisors in 1939, just before the invasion of the Poland : "" that today ' huiAprès all, talks about the extermination of the Armenians? "" The Armenian genocide will become a model for genocide in modern times, as was the murder carried out with the device of modern technology and the bureaucracy.
Although all Turkish Governments since WWI denied the crime of genocide against the Armenians, the consensus on the historical facts and the legal definition of the events of 1915 are undeniable. The International Association of genocide scholars wrote two letters to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, describing the historical record.
Each year on 24 April, the President of the United States issues a statement commemorating the annihilation of the Armenians, which began in the evening to Constantinople (today Istanbul) with the arrest of 250 of their cultural leaders. They were sent to prison for being tortured, and most have been killed.
Each year, watch Armenians around the world for the American President to use the specific term for the murder of the Armenian population mass: genocide. Each year, a President said all he can about the meaning of the event but not this word, because the Turkish Government, afraid of the truth, employs every possible tactic to dissuade the President to talk about it.
Coercion works, because the Turkey is a correlative ally, and our Government could not muster the moral courage to make that many countries of the world: make a formal statement of recognition of the Armenian genocide. Such statements - by Canada, Uruguay, France, Russia, Poland, Greece, Lebanon, Sweden and so on — have been made not to legislate history, but only to confirm what is a historical record clear, committed and to make what might be called a recourse to the official Turkish refusal.
It seems perfectly clear that 21 countries that have been in such resolutions are aggressive efforts of the Turkey of denial ethically repugnant and unacceptable for a member of NATO which aspires to the admission of the European Union.
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