Legislative Assembly of Brazil's Sao Paulo state adopted
Resolution 1266/2014 declaring April 24 the Armenian Genocide recognition and
remembrance day, Foreign Ministry press service reports. The draft was
introduced by the Assembly member Pedro Tobias.
The Armenian Genocide
The Armenian Genocide (1915-23) was the deliberate and
systematic destruction of the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire during
and just after World War I. It was characterized by massacres, and deportations
involving forced marches under conditions designed to lead to the death of the
deportees, with the total number of deaths reaching 1.5 million.
The majority of Armenian Diaspora communities were formed
by the Genocide survivors.
Present-day Turkey denies the fact of the Armenian
Genocide, justifying the atrocities as “deportation to secure Armenians”. Only
a few Turkish intellectuals, including Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk and
scholar Taner Akcam, speak openly about the necessity to recognize this crime
against humanity.
The Armenian Genocide was recognized by Uruguay, Russia,
France, Lithuania, the Italian Chamber of Deputies, majority of U.S. states,
parliaments of Greece, Cyprus, Argentina, Belgium and Wales, National Council
of Switzerland, Chamber of Commons of Canada, Polish Sejm, Vatican, European
Parliament and the World Council of Churches.
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