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1:40 PM, Jan 11, 2013 • By DANIEL HALPERThe Washington Free Beacon reports:
Armenian-American leaders and human rights advocates have expressed deep reservations about the nomination of Chuck Hagel to lead the defense department.
Hagel, a two-term Republican senator from Nebraska, was nominated Monday as President Barack Obama’s pick to head the Pentagon. He faces criticism for opposing a 2005 congressional resolution recognizing Turkey’s genocide of more than one million Armenians.
“What happened in 1915 happened in 1915,” Hagel said during a 2005 trip to Armenia when he was serving in the Senate. “As one United States senator, I think the better way to deal with this is to leave it open to historians and others to decide what happened and why.”
“The fact is that this region needs to move forward,” Hagel continued. “We need to find a lasting, just peace between Turkey and Armenia and the other nations of this region. I am not sure that by going back and dealing with that in some way that causes one side or the other to be put in difficult spot, helps move the peace process forward.”
Armenian-American leaders and genocide experts decried these comments as insensitive and dangerous. They maintain that Hagel’s willingness to overlook the systematic genocide of more than one million people raises concerns about his possible tenure as the nation’s top defense official.
Death and rebirth in the shadow of genocide.Sep 10, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 48 • By DIANE SCHARPERAs Chris Bohjalian tells it, the years between 1915 and 1923 were “the most nightmarish eight years of Armenian history.” Yet the horrific events of that time are generally not included in history courses, and are not so well known outside the Armenian community. No longer. Bohjalian describes what happened to the Armenians in grisly detail in this compelling novel.
Read more... Death and rebirth in the shadow of genocide.Sep 10, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 48 • By DIANE SCHARPERAs Chris Bohjalian tells it, the years between 1915 and 1923 were “the most nightmarish eight years of Armenian history.” Yet the horrific events of that time are generally not included in history courses, and are not so well known outside the Armenian community. No longer. Bohjalian describes what happened to the Armenians in grisly detail in this compelling novel.
Read more... The president doesn't acknowledge the Armenian genocide. 2:45 PM, Apr 24, 2012 • By PHILIP TERZIANConnoisseurs of tea leaves will note that President Obama, in his statement today on Armenian Remembrance Day, was very careful to avoid use of the word "genocide" in describing the massacre of 1.5 million Armenians by the Ottoman Turks during the First World War.
Read more... 1:13 PM, Apr 16, 2012 • By EMANUELE OTTOLENGHIOn March 20, Armenian defense minister Seyran Ohanyan visited Washington, D.C. Talks focused on U.S. defense assistance to the small republic, and regional issues were also discussed, but there is no evidence that Ohanyan’s U.S. counterpart, Leon Panetta, raised the question of Armenia’s excessive coziness with Iran. But he should have.
Read more... One family's story from Ararat to America and back4:00 PM, Oct 14, 2010 • By PHILIP TERZIANGarin Hovannisian is a product of what might be called Armenian-American aristocracy. His great-grandfather Kaspar stood helplessly by while his pregnant mother and infant brother were killed by the Turks in 1915, escaped to Ellis Island in 1920, and built an agricultural/real estate empire in California. His grandfather Richard, professor of history at UCLA, is an authority on the Armenian genocide.
Read more... A visitor to Turkey discovers the truth beneath the stories. May 3, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 31 • By JAY WINTERRead more... And its opponents. 2:59 PM, Mar 5, 2010 • By PHILIP TERZIANThe Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs recently issued an astonishingly bumptious statement opposing the congressional resolution on the Armenian Genocide, beginning with these words: "Like swallows returning to Capistrano, Congress's annual determination to debate the history of the Ottoman Empire is a sign of spring." It is not difficult to imagine JINSA's reaction if some organization were to discuss a historic genocide of interest to JINSA with those same words: "Like swallows returning to Capistrano ..."
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