Adam Schiff commemorates Armenian Genocide

PanARMENIAN.Net - The representative of California's 29th district Congressman Adam Schiff's spokesman Sean Oblack reported PanARMENIAN.Net that the Schiff issued the following statement today to commemorate the 94th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide:



"From 1915 to 1923 the Ottoman Empire committed genocide against the Armenian people in a campaign designed to wipe out an entire race. A million and a half Armenians were killed, but the Armenian people survive and today contribute in every field of endeavor, from math and science, to law, medicine, and the arts. With every success and through the vibrancy of the Armenian nation, a resilient people daily remind the world of the failure of the Ottoman quest to destroy them nearly a century ago.



"I am proud that in Congress more than a hundred members have cosponsored the genocide resolution, House Resolution 252, including the House Majority Leader, the House Republican Whip and the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Although the President today acknowledged the deaths of a million and a half Armenians during the Armenian Genocide, I am deeply disappointed by his decision not to use the word "genocide" in his statement. Nonetheless, our work will go on undaunted. We will not become complicit in Ankara's campaign of denial. We will persevere until it is the policy of the United States to recognize genocide wherever and whenever it occurs, and to do all in its power to prevent this scourge from tarnishing the human race ever again."