Ireland’s Sinn Fein political party speaker urges government to recognize the Armenian Genocide

YEREVAN, 22 APRIL, ARMENPRESS.Sean Crowe, speaker for political affairs of the Sinn Fein politicalparty, which is the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, has called on the Irish government to officially recognize the Armenian Genocide, as posted on the Irish political figure’s official website, according to “Armenpress”.“This year my colleague Aengus O Snodaigh submitted to the parliament a petition, urging the Irish government to officially recognize the Armenian Genocide in the year marking the 100thanniversary. April 24this the day of remembrance of the Armenian Genocide.

His answer was totally inadequate. He stated that the Irish government has not adopted and will not adopt a position on that issue, unlike the issues of the other genocides of the 20thcentury such as the Holocaust and the Rwandan genocide,”Crowe said, adding that there are verbal, written and diplomatic testimonies proving the Armenian Genocide perpetrated in the Ottoman Empire.

“If we don’t recognize the past, we can’t learn from our mistakes and move forward. We have to guarantee that we are against the distortion of history,”he said.