Wall Street Journal Article on Armenian Genocide Caused Readers Indignation

PanARMENIAN.Net - November 12 the Wall Street Journal published a letter of the Washington Office of the Armenian National Committee of America, as well as a number of other letters in response to Kara Scannell's article of October 27 titled Turk-Armenian Fight Over World War I History Goes to a US Court. The letters present efforts of Turkish organizations aimed at using the US judicial system to include Armenian Genocide denial in Massachusetts curricula. Two teachers, a student and a parent brought a suit, demanding for Massachusetts curricula on Armenian Genocide fact to include the web-page of the Turkish Embassy in the US and other non-academic sources that deny the reality of the Armenian Genocide. The plaintiffs assure that absence of those sources in the curricula violates their right for freedom of speech.



In a letter to the Wall Street Journal Armenian National Committee of America Chairman Ken Hachikian stated, "The trial concerns not the freedom of speech, but the Turkish Government large-scale campaign to conceal facts on the Armenian Genocide. Not limiting themselves to violence in the country itself, Turkish "satellites" try to hamper teaching of the subject of the Armenian Genocide here in the US." Michigan University professor Fatima Myuge Fyocek, specifically, wrote she considered the trial extremely abusive. It should be noted that the Wall Street Journal article caused indignation of many readers - Armenians and those of other nationalities, as the article presents the fact of the Armenian Genocide as a subject of continuing dispute between Armenians and Turks, not taking into account numerous scientific research of the matter.