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    Armenian Americans Criticize Hypocrisy of Genocide Prevention Task Force Co-Chairs

    Armenian Americans Criticize Hypocrisy of Genocide Prevention Task Force Co-Chairs
    December 8, 2008
    source: Asbarez

    WASHINGTON--The Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) Monday questioned the credibility of former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and former Secretary of Defense William Cohen to issue a genocide prevention report, given their longstanding opposition to Armenian Genocide legislation.

    The report, unveiled earlier Monday at the National Press Club by the Genocide Prevention Task Force, co-chaired by Albright and Cohen, is designed to encourage U.S. leadership in ending the cycle of genocide.

    "Albright and Cohen offered some worthwhile solutions today but, sadly, as two of the main architects of U.S. denial of the Armenian Genocide, remain very much part of the problem the Task Force set out to address," said ANCA Executive Director Aram Hamparian. "Secretaries Albright and Cohen both have long track records, both as government officials and private citizens, of working to block American recognition of the Armenian Genocide."

    Last year, both Secretaries Cohen and Albright sent letters to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi opposing Congressional legislation (H.Res.106 / S.Res.106) aimed to end U.S. complicity in Armenian Genocide denial through proper U.S. reaffirmation of that crime against humanity.

    Secretary Cohen's firm, the Cohen Group, is a strategic partner with DLA / Piper, a registered foreign agent representing the Government of Turkey, paid $1.8 million a year to, among other things, lobby against Armenian Genocide legislation. The Cohen Group is also a member of the American Turkish Council, which has been outspoken in its opposition to Armenian Genocide legislation.

    "The messengers undermine the message here. Their words are on the mark, but Albright and Cohen's political opposition to ending U.S. complicity in Genocide denial speaks far louder," added Hamparian.

    A pointed question by Hamparian asking Secretaries Cohen and Albright to comment on what they learned about the dangers of genocide denial and whether this will cause them to stop seeking to block U.S. recognition of the Armenian Genocide was largely evaded by the co-chairs.

    H.Res.106, introduced by Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) with lead supporters George Radanovich (R-CA), Congressional Armenian Caucus Co-Chairs Frank Pallone (D-NJ) and Joe Knollenberg (R-MI), Brad Sherman (D-CA) and Anna Eshoo (D-CA), currently has over 200 cosponsors.

    On October 10, 2007, the House Foreign Affairs Committee adopted the resolution, which calls on U.S. foreign policy to properly reflect the genocide of over 1.5 million Armenian men, women and children from 1915-1923 in Ottoman Turkey. A similar measure in the Senate, led by Deputy Majority Leader Richard Durbin (D-IL) and John Ensign (R-NV), has 33 cosponsors.
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    Re: Armenian Americans Criticize Hypocrisy of Genocide Prevention Task Force Co-Chair

    Once you realize the irony of the situation, you will be thankful that we have Armenian patriots such as Aram Hamparian over at ANCA to do damage control. Cohen and Albright have both proven themselves to be low-lives (now and in the past) only concerned about their political careers, not about "genocide".

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    Genocide Deniers Set Course for Genocide Prevention
    December 8, 2008
    source: Asbarez
    BY ARA KHACHATOURIAN

    The Genocide Prevention Task Force issued a report Monday on Genocide prevention, which it hopes would be adopted as a blueprint on how to deal with current genocides and to prevent such events from taking place in the future.

    The problem, however, is that the task force is being co-chaired by two individuals who have gone on record for denying the Armenian Genocide. Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and former Secretary of Defense William Cohen both have, in the past, perpetuated Turkey's denial campaign by opposing efforts to recognize the Armenian Genocide.

    In the present as well, the two leaders of this task force went on record Monday to emphasize that their work did not aim at categorizing or characterizing past events but rather to look forward and prevent future atrocities and crimes.

    Last year, both secretaries Cohen and Albright sent letters to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi opposing Congressional legislation (H.Res.106 / S.Res.106), aimed at ending U.S. complicity in Armenian Genocide denial through proper U.S. reaffirmation of that crime against humanity.

    Secretary Cohen's firm, the Cohen Group is a strategic partner with DLA / Piper, a registered foreign agent representing the Government of Turkey, paid $1.8 million a year to, among other things, lobby against Armenian Genocide recognition.

    While the report offers worthwhile solutions to the problem of Genocide and aims to offer mechanism with which governments--especially the US government--can deal with genocides and mass atrocities as they occur, it becomes slightly suspect when the individuals who are chairing the task force have and continue to actively oppose efforts to recognize the Armenian Genocide.

    There is no question that the attention that the Darfur Genocide has received in the past several years has placed the issue of Genocide on the forefront of activism, policy making and even press coverage, making almost vogue to engage in efforts to speak out against Genocide and take an active role in pushing for government action on the matter.

    What makes this report lose its legitimacy is the fact that the key figures who are proposing mechanisms to prevent future Genocides are themselves refusing to look at history and calling a spade a spade. This would be advisable not to simply appease the Armenian-American community but to actually grant the necessary legitimacy to the report.

    During the presentation of the report on Monday, the two former secretaries talked in great length about past instances where proper response may have prevented the loss of millions of lives, but when directly asked about whether they've learned lessons from their experience on the task force that could prompt a change in their denial of past genocides--especially the Armenian Genocide--the two side-stepped the issue by professing their desire or intention to look forward and not back.

    One is able to look forward and offer constructive solutions by looking at past mistakes and create mechanisms to impede the possibility of repeating them. Albright's and Cohen's approach, however, seems more an attempt to fulfill a task rather than to forthrightly put in place an approach that would truly prevent acts of Genocide or mass atrocities.

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      Re: Armenian Americans Criticize Hypocrisy of Genocide Prevention Task Force Co-Chair

      Cohen and Albright "answering" Aram Hamparian's question about the consequences of genocide denial...

      ANCA Confronts Cohen/Albright Hypocrosiy on Genocide
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3AvAWUy3aA
      ANCA Executive Director Aram Hamparian questions former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and former Secretary of Defense William Cohen on their opposito...

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