Schwarzenegger Proclaims April 24 "Day of Remembrance of the Armenian Genocide"

[Rikk]

Governor Schwarzenegger Proclaims April 24 "Day of Remembrance of the Armenian Genocide".

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
P R O C L A M A T I O N
by the
Governor of the State of California

Ninety years ago today, the Ottoman Turkish government waged a war of terror on Armenian culture through the brutal deportation, imprisonment and decimation of men, women and children of Armenian descent. By 1923, the Ottoman Empire had dissolved, but its monstrous attempt at ethnic cleansing left more than 1.5 million Armenians massacred and 500,000 survivors forcibly exiled from their ancestral homeland.

Today, the Republic of Armenia remains as the world's reminder of the Armenian Genocide and of the indestructible spirit of a people. It is a nation founded on the principles of freedom and democracy that we as Americans prize above all else. Our state's flourishing Armenian American population - the largest outside of Armenia - has left its indelible stamp on our state's history, industry and culture.

Each year, the Day of Remembrance of the Armenian Genocide brings an opportunity for all people to scrutinize the cause and consequence of this grim massacre. To carve out a secure future free from intolerance and persecution, we must examine the past and heed history's lessons of forewarning - for the sake of future generations who inherit our civilization.

In 1969, then-Governor Ronald Reagan said, "Today, I humbly bow in memory of the Armenian martyrs, who died in the name of freedom." On the 90th anniversary of this great human tragedy, Californians continue to join with freedom-loving people around the world to honor the Armenian people as they continue to show the world the true meaning of hope, renewal and perseverance.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER, Governor of the State of California, do hereby proclaim April 24, 2005, as a "Day of Remembrance of the Armenian Genocide."

IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have here unto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of the State of California to be affixed this the fourteenth day of April 2005.

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[Warham]

Good thing Arnold did.

[Rikk]

Indeed. And rare. Both Bush and Clinton have refused to recognize it as a Genocide, when indeed it was the systematic murder of 1.5 million Armenians, including some of my family (my great-grandmother and many others). It's good to read it recognized officially for what it is, with politics and special interests put aside.

[DLR'sCock]

The guys in System of a Down are Armenian. They have spoken about this massacre a few times. Good going for Arnold on his part here.

[Nickdfresh]

Originally posted by Rikk
Indeed. And rare. Both Bush and Clinton have refused to recognize it as a Genocide, when indeed it was the systematic murder of 1.5 million Armenians, including some of my family (my great-grandmother and many others). It's good to read it recognized officially for what it is, with politics and special interests put aside.

We have to keep the Turks happy whilst they slaughtered Armenians then, and Kurds now! :rolleyes:

[Rikk]

Originally posted by Nickdfresh
We have to keep the Turks happy whilst they slaughtered Armenians then, and Kurds now! :rolleyes:

I know. Nothing like special interests to keep murderers' names in the clear. I wouldn't want anyone to think anything bad of the guys that raped and murdered my great aunts.:rolleyes:

[Rikk]

Originally posted by DLR'sCock
The guys in System of a Down are Armenian. They have spoken about this massacre a few times. Good going for Arnold on his part here.

Yep. And Armenians are proud of those guys.:)

[GAR]

In the 80s here in SoCal we had groups of Turks getting whacked all over the place.

Armenian FOB'ers, once they get their land-legs stable here in the new world, finish taking care of old fucking business as continues to this day.

- and they wonder why there is such a thing as Armenian gangs?

THE ISSUE HASNT BEEN ADDRESSED and it's worse for the Western world that the Ankara government disaknowledges the whole thing, as it happened right before WW1, then a decadelong depression in the 20s to the 30s and then WW2 after that.

How easy to rewrite history to disinclude an atrocity on the scale of a Nanking or a Cecesciu when so much distraction and lack of infrastructure in Turkey continues to this day even.