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    NEW YORK GOVERNOR DAVID A. PATERSON ISSUES A PROCLAMATION ACKNOWLEDGING ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
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    NewsBlaze

    April 23 2008
    CA

    93rd Anniversary Commemoration of the Armenian Genocide to be Held
    in Times Square On Sunday, April 27th From 2-4 PM

    NEW YORK, April 23, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- New York Governor David
    A. Paterson issued a Proclamation for the Empire State to join in
    with the entire community to commemorate the 93rd anniversary of
    the Armenian Genocide. In the proclamation, the Governor states,
    "Whereas, it is fitting that all New Yorkers recognize the hardships
    the Armenians faced, for the purpose of preventing such as the Armenian
    Genocide of 1915-23 from recurring and to appreciate the United States
    role as a refuge for all oppressed people."

    The public is welcome to participate in the 93rd Anniversary
    Commemoration of the Armenian Genocide to be held in Times Square
    (43rd & Broadway) on Sunday, April 27 from 2-4 PM. Organized by
    the Knights & Daughters of Vartan, an Armenian-American fraternal
    organization, the Commemoration theme is "We Cannot Forget, We Will
    Not Forget." Armenian-Americans and their supporters will gather to
    pay tribute to the 1.5 million Armenians who were annihilated by the
    Young Turk Government of the Ottoman Empire. The Commemoration will
    also celebrate the survival of the Armenian people, their rich heritage
    and their contributions. Dennis R. Papazian, PhD, Founding Director
    of the Armenian Research Center of the University of Michigan and
    Mary A. Papazian, PhD, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic
    Affairs at Lehman College, C.U.N.Y, will preside over the ceremonies.

    Commemoration participants will include Armenian Genocide survivors
    and their families, elected officials, and humanitarian, cultural,
    religious, educational and community leaders. Distinguished speakers
    include U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ); U.S. Representative Frank
    Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), co-chair of the Congressional Caucus on Armenian
    Issues; Carla Garapedian, director of the award-winning documentary
    Screamers, which explores the history of reoccurrence and denial of
    genocides in the 20th and 21st centuries; Attorney Mark J. Garagos,
    who helped lead groundbreaking Federal Class Action Lawsuits against
    New York Life and other insurance companies for insurance polices
    issued to Armenians living in Turkey prior to the Armenian Genocide;
    Alex Hinton, PhD, Director of the Study of Genocide and Human
    Rights at Rutgers University and Vice President of the International
    Association of Genocide Scholars; and Dr. Daniel Jonah Goldhagen,
    author of Hitler's Willing Executioners. In 2009, Goldhagen will
    host the PBS documentary Worse Than War, based on his forthcoming
    book exploring the general phenomenon of genocide throughout the world.

    Armenian Genocide Experts Sam Azadian and Dr. Dennis R. Papazian
    are available for media interviews via phone and in-person. Armenian
    Genocide Survivors are also available (with translators) to discuss
    their eyewitness accounts as refugees from the Armenian Genocide. Their
    painful accounts of the horrendous horrors and mass destruction
    they witnessed and lived through are critical contributions to world
    history.

    Free round-trip bus transportation will be available from all Armenian
    New York and New Jersey churches, Baruyr's (40th Street & Queens
    Boulevard) and the Hovnanian School, New Milford, New Jersey. For
    information about the Commemoration and bus transportation contact:
    Dr. Dennis Papazian-PH: (201) 505-1591.

    The Knights of Vartan logo is available at
    General Antranik (1865-1927): “I am not a nationalist. I recognize only one nation, the nation of the oppressed.”

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    Congressman King reaffirmed historical fact of Armenian Genocide for Congressional Record
    26.04.2008 14:16 GMT+04:00
    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ Congressman Peter King (R-NY-3) reaffirmed the historical fact of the Armenian Genocide in remarks offered for the Congressional Record on Thursday, April 24, 2008 reported the Armenian National Committee of New York (ANC of NY).

    Speaking at the meeting, Cong. King told the delegation of Armenian community leaders that he has always known that the events of 1915 constituted genocide, and pledged to include such language in a statement to be offered for the Congressional Record.

    In his remarks, he stated: "Today I rise to mark the anniversary of the Armenian Genocide which began on this date ninety-three years ago. From 1915-1923 the Ottoman Empire carried out the deportation of approximately 2 million Armenian men, women, and children from their homeland of which 1.5 million were killed. And to this day, neither the Ottoman nor Turkish governments have been held to account for their involvement."
    General Antranik (1865-1927): “I am not a nationalist. I recognize only one nation, the nation of the oppressed.”

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      REP. MARKEY COMMEMORATES ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

      US Fed News
      April 24, 2008 Thursday

      Rep. Edward J. Markey, D-Mass. (7th CD), issued the following
      statement:

      Representative Edward J. Markey (D-MA), entered the following statement
      into the Congressional Record commemorating the 93rd anniversary of
      the Armenian Genocide:

      "Madam Speaker, I rise today to commemorate the ninety-third
      anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.

      "In September of 1919, President Woodrow Wilson spoke of his vision
      of a future Armenia. He said, 'Armenia is to be redeemed...So that
      at last this great people, struggling through night after night of
      terror, knowing not when they may come out into a time when they can
      enjoy their rights as free people that they never dreamed they would
      be able to exercise.'

      "The Armenian people finally have the ability to enjoy the rights
      that President Wilson hoped they would have so many years ago, and
      for that we are all thankful.

      "The nights of terror that President Wilson spoke about, the Armenian
      Genocide, was the first genocide of the twentieth century. It was
      the opening chapter of what was arguably the most violent period
      of human history. In the decades following this initial Genocide,
      the world witnessed genocidal acts against the Jews and against
      the Roma in World War II, and subsequently in Cambodia, Rwanda,
      Bosnia-Herzegovina, and in too many wars to list here. Today, the
      world is witnessing genocide yet again in Darfur.

      "There is no more important way to commit ourselves to preventing
      the genocides of the future than to commemorate and never forget the
      genocides of the past. As such, I would like to note my continuing
      support for House finally passage of H.Res. 106, the Affirmation of
      the United States Record on the Armenian Genocide Resolution. In
      my view, it is long past time for the United States to officially
      recognize the massacre of one and a half million Armenians in early
      in the twentieth century for what it undeniably was: a genocide.

      "Countries all around the world have adopted similar resolutions to
      ensure that the atrocities committed against the Armenian people are
      properly recognized as genocide. Canada, France, Switzerland, Greece,
      and Poland have passed resolutions affirming the recognition of the
      Armenian Genocide. Properly recognizing the Armenian Genocide here
      in America is essential to ensure that all past genocides are never
      forgotten and all future atrocities are never permitted. This House
      must afford the proper recognition to the Armenian Genocide. We must
      do so not only because of our solemn obligation to recognize those
      that were lost, but also because of our duty to those that can still
      be saved.

      "I yield back the balance of my time."
      General Antranik (1865-1927): “I am not a nationalist. I recognize only one nation, the nation of the oppressed.”

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