May UK give up its policy of Armenian Genocide denial?
For the first time since 1918, members of British parliament who spoke the truth about the Armenian Genocide were appointed rapporteurs on Armenia and Turkey.
MP Chris Bryant called on the House of Commons to recognize the Armenian Genocide, freelance French journalist Jean Eckian told PanARMENIAN.Net.
Mr. Bryant reminded that the previous Cabinets refrained from any assessment of the 1915 events, saying that "historians can't come to a conclusion on the issue."
"However, Geoff Hoon, Dennis Macshane, Doug Alexander, Baroness Ramsey Baroness Scotland , Lord Treisman and Lord Malloch-Brown never consulted any prominent historian," he said. "And the person responsible for the policy of denial is Jack Straw, currently Minister of Justice."
According to Mr. Bryant, to show solidarity with Armenia, the parliament should urge resignation of Minister Straw, who disseminated lies for so many years.
In a parliamentary debate in 1921, Sir Neville Chamberlain said, "I cannot think without something like horror and dismay of the abominable barbarities which have been practised in Armenia, and if I condemn Turkish rule in Armenia it is not because it is Mohammedan rule over Christian people, but because it is a barbarous and brutal rule, which would disgrace whatever Government in which it originated."
MP Chris Bryant called on the House of Commons to recognize the Armenian Genocide, freelance French journalist Jean Eckian told PanARMENIAN.Net.
Mr. Bryant reminded that the previous Cabinets refrained from any assessment of the 1915 events, saying that "historians can't come to a conclusion on the issue."
"However, Geoff Hoon, Dennis Macshane, Doug Alexander, Baroness Ramsey Baroness Scotland , Lord Treisman and Lord Malloch-Brown never consulted any prominent historian," he said. "And the person responsible for the policy of denial is Jack Straw, currently Minister of Justice."
According to Mr. Bryant, to show solidarity with Armenia, the parliament should urge resignation of Minister Straw, who disseminated lies for so many years.
In a parliamentary debate in 1921, Sir Neville Chamberlain said, "I cannot think without something like horror and dismay of the abominable barbarities which have been practised in Armenia, and if I condemn Turkish rule in Armenia it is not because it is Mohammedan rule over Christian people, but because it is a barbarous and brutal rule, which would disgrace whatever Government in which it originated."
