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YEREVAN, APRIL 24, ARMENPRESS. Any notion of a debate regarding the murder of 1.5 million Armenians is simply a political smokescreen. The genocide happened, it happened to the Armenians, and the man who invented the word acknowledged this fact, “Armenpress” reports, Columnist of the Huffington Post newspaper H. A. Goodman write about this in his article entitled “The United States must officially recognize the Armenian Genocide”.
“The genocide of the Armenian people that began on April 24, 1915 fits the exact definition of genocide. I remember as a university student, studying in Washington D.C. and interning at the U.S. Department of State, visiting the D.C. Holocaust Museum. On the wall near the entrance of the museum were the words of Adolf Hitler remarking that since nobody speaks of the slaughter of the Armenians, future slaughter of Jews would be erased by history” the author writes.
He states that while geopolitics has prevented the United States from using the word, there’s no doubt that the Armenian Genocide is a historical fact.
“The world is still waiting for the U.S. to use the word “genocide” when describing the Armenian Genocide. Sadly, the most powerful nation on the planet doesn’t yet have the moral fortitude to acknowledge fully what the Armenians experienced. Most importantly, President Obama promised to use the word during his presidential campaign”, Goodman emphasized.
He hopes that the next president of the United States will honor the victims of a genocide that20 nationsincluding France, Sweden, Russia, the Vatican, and Canada have already officially recognized. "The time for politics, and specifically the kowtowing to pressures exhibited by the Turkish government, should be over. Yes, America must label ISIS atrocities as genocide, but to ignore using the word with the Armenian genocide is an affront to history.We owe future generations, and the victims of past atrocities, the courage to act today, regardless of political pressure. The United States must official recognize the Armenian Genocide. Our next president must utilize the word that Raphael Lemkin created, after studying and researching the plight of the Armenian people during the Ottoman Empire”, the author of the Huffington Post concluded his article.