[MD] Intellect battles the[historical] barbarians

[Khaled Alkotob]

On Thu, 02 Nov 2006 19:12:49 +0000 craigerb at comcast.net writes:
> [Khaled] 
> > the US [doesn't] recognize the Armenian genocide. 
> 
> For the opposing view:
> http://www.armenian-genocide.org/affirmation.html

Well the US does not oficially recognize, there is a lot of lip service
by individual polititians but not a united front

http://www.anca.org/press_releases/press_releases.php?prid=819

and this is the excerpt from Wikipedia:

Although there has been much academic recognition of the Armenian
Genocide, this has not always been followed by governments and media.
Many governments, including the United States, the United Kingdom,
Israel, Ukraine, and Georgia, do not officially use the word genocide to
describe these events. Although there is no federal recognition of the
Armenian Genocide, 39 of the 50 U.S. states recognize the events of 1915
to 1917 as genocide.

In recent years, parliaments of a number of countries where Armenian
diaspora has a strong presence have officially recognized the event as
genocide. Two recent examples are France and Switzerland. Turkish entry
talks with the European Union were met with a number of calls to consider
the event as genocide, though it never became a precondition

here is the wikepedia link:  
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_Genocide

isn't it amazing that Israel of all people does not recognize it.

Khaled