Armenian President Warns about Danger of Genocide Denial, Brazilian Congressman Marco Feliciano Denounces Genocide of Armenian Christians
By Julio
Severo
Armenian
President Serge Sargsyan warned Wedsnesday about the danger to the world of the
denial of the genocide of over 1.5 million Armenians by Muslim hordes of the
Ottoman Empire.
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“Genocide
is a failure of the international community and its impunity is the premise for
its repetition,” said Sargsyan in his opening speech in an international forum
on the genocide, held in the Armenian capital.
Sargsyan
will pay homage to the dead in the massacre Friday, in a ceremony that will include
the participation of Russian President Vladimir Putin and French President
François Hollande.
The
Armenian president made several references to Turkey, but without mentioning it
directly.
“Genocide
denial contains components of a new wave of national hatred and it is followed on
many occasions by intolerance and a justification for the genocides committed,”
said Sargsyan.
Sargsyan
stated that Armenians have a moral obligation, but also a right to remember the
death of over 1.5 million people, the suffering of other hundreds of thousands
in deportations and the extermination of the material and spiritual legacy
accumulated over millennia.
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The
genocide anniversary is stained by the Turkish denial, because Turkish
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan insists on saying that Turkish Muslims did not
commit any genocide against Armenian Christians.
So
far, just 22 nations have recognized the Armenian genocide, among them France,
Germany, Italy, Canada, Greece, Russia, Uruguay, Argentina, Venezuela, Chile
and Bolivia.
The
United States, the largest Protestant nation in the world, and Brazil, the
largest Catholic nation in the world, have never recognized the Armenian
genocide in order not to make Turkey “angry.” And now under Barack Obama, it is
much harder for the U.S. government to recognize it, because Turkey is one of the main allies of the
U.S. policies in the Middle East.
By
officially recognizing the Armenian genocide, Germany, Canada and Russia took
the lead over the U.S. and Argentina, while Chile and Venezuela took the lead
over Brazil.
Even
with the resistance of the Brazilian government, in the Brazilian Congress a
voice has risen to remember the genocide of Armenian Christians. In April 22,
2015, Congressman Marco Feliciano shouted from the Congress floor:
“From this floor I declare my
solidarity with the Armenian People for the occasion of the centennial
commemoration of the genocide committed by Turks against their defenseless
population in the Ottoman Empire, where 1.5 million lives were destroyed.”
“This the first genocide in modern
history left lasting scars among Christians around the world, because the
overwhelming majority of the victims in this massacre were Christians descended
from the first groups converted to Christianity around the third century AD.”
“Yet, as taught by Jesus, His
followers will experience suffering, but not in vain. Today the courageous
Armenian people maintain their culture, language and customs and, most
importantly, a free homeland, and they commemorate this event in order to
hinder its repetition and so that the world may more and more recognize the
inhumanity committed against them.”
That
same day, Feliciano, who is also an Assemblies of God minister, sent an
official letter to the Armenian Embassy in Brazil, saying:
“It is with great honor that I express
my solidarity with you and with all the Armenian people for the occasion of the
centennial commemoration of the genocide committed by Turks against your
people.”
“It is important in this centennial
commemoration, with its sad memory, for us to fraternize with one another in
one ideal of faith and forgiveness to build a better world for our children and
so that deplorable facts such as this may never happen again.”
It is
worrying that with the non-recognition of the genocide of Armenian Christians,
the Brazilian government shows more interest in the feelings of Turkey’s Muslims,
particularly since Turkey has plans to advance Islam in
Latin America.
With
the recognition of the Armenian genocide, Congressman Marco Feliciano shows
that he cares about the feelings of Christians in Armenia and Brazil.
With
information of Terra, EFE and Marco Feliciano.
Reviewed
by Don Hank.
Portuguese
version of this article: Presidente
armênio alerta para perigo de negação de genocídio, Dep. Marco Feliciano denuncia genocídio de
cristãos armênios
Source: Last Days Watchman
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