On April 24, Thousands to Protest Genocide Denial at LA Turkish Consulate
Thousands across California will converge on the Turkish Consulate in Los Angeles (6300 Wilshire Boulevard) on Saturday April 24 at 4pm to demonstrate for an end to Turkey’s 95 year campaign of genocide denial and the recognition of the Armenian Genocide by the United States.
Organized by the Armenian Youth Federation, this year’s protest will come on the 95th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide and will converge with global expectations on both the US House of Representatives and President Barack Obama to finally hold Turkey accountable for its crimes against the Armenian people.
On March 4, the Foreign Affairs Committee of the US House of Representatives voted to approve a resolution recognizing the Armenian Genocide. H.Res.252.
The resolution, which calls on Obama to recognize the Genocide, passed committee with a narrow margin and waits to be introduced to the full House of Representatives for a final vote.
H.Res.252 has faced unprecedented opposition by the Turkish government, which has mounted a multi-pronged campaign to stifle the bill.
This April 24, on the 95th anniversary of the Genocide, Armenian Americans will protest against Turkey’s effort to impose a gag-rule on the United States and show, once again, the resolve of Armenian-Americans to continue their struggle for justice, recognition and reparations.
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BUS SCHEDULE
Buses will be provided from the following locations:
Hollywood:
Pilibos Armenian School
1615 North Alexandria Ave. Los Angeles CA
Pasadena
Pasadena Armenian Center
2242 E. Foothill Blvd. Pasadena CA
Glendale
St. Mary’s Church
500 South Central Ave. Glendale CA
San Fernando Valley
Ferrahian Armenian School
5300 White Oak Ave. Encino CA.
Montebello
Holy Cross Armenian Apostolic Church
900 W. Lincoln Ave. Montebello, CA
Orange County
Orange County Armenian Center
5305 W. McFadden Santa Ana, CA
Buses will leave at 2:30 PM Sharp from all locations.
For more information, call 818-507-1933
Hey,
can we have some protests in europe please! say Turkey! and Mallorca and Spain as well please.
The message is:
** Genocide Acknowledgment with Accountability: Land, Reparation, and Restitution **
** Hillary Clinton go to Deir Zor ** Obama go to Der Zor**
** Erdogan: Eastern Turkey is Western Armenia **
** Ani is Armenia Kars is Armenia Ararat is Armenia Erzurum is Armenia Hopa is Armenia Nakhichevan, is Armenia **
Can you imagine if back in the days of West Germany at the height of the cold war, the United States refrained from condemning the Holocaust for fear of offending a strategic NATO ally?
Jurist Raphael Lemkin, a lawyer of Polish-Jewish descent, and Holocaust survivor, coined the word ‘genocide’ specifically to describe the intentional destruction of the Armenians, and later used the term to describe the destruction of European Jewry.
Before the word ‘genocide’ existed, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and world leaders referred to the barbarity that befell the Armenians at the hands of the Turkish State as the “Armenian holocaust.”
The International Association of Genocide Scholars and seven former presidents of the IAGS have unanimously concluded with the verdict of genocide.
The Turkish have not only murdered humans, destroyed an ancient culture and civilization, and rewritten history, but they continue to legitimize the act as well as the racist ideology that led to the act.
Denial is the final step in the completion of a mass extermination and the first step towards the next genocide.
Forgiving Turkey of its crime of genocide without accountability would encourage the Turks and other would be perpetrators to commit new genocides.
Genocide acknowledgment without accountability is hollow and meaningless.
While the Armenian genocide (1915-23) was on-going throughout the Ottoman Empire, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk picked up where the Young Turks left off, and invaded the fledgling Armenian republic (1918-20) – recognized by US, UK, France, Japan – annexing by way of genocide, half of that republic’s territory, depriving it access to the strategic black sea, Mt. Ararat, Ani, Kars, and other lands that affect the viability of Armenia.
The Turkish state has an on-going hostile border blockade on Armenia – an act of war under international law – forcing 1 million Armenians to leave the country and seek economic survival elsewhere as refugees.
Acknowledgment with Accountability – Justice for the crime of genocide: Land, Reparation, and Restitution.