Armenian Genocide Pros And Cons

“It was an old wooden door and there were cracks in it and I looked through the cracks,” she says. “There were many children outside without shoes and the Turkish gendarmes were using whips to drive them down the street. A few had parents. We were forbidden to take food to them. The police were using whips on the children and big sticks to beat them with. The sounds of the children screaming on the deportation – still I hear them as I look through the cracked door.”

This is just one account of those who survived the Armenian Genocide. She was just a child when these tragedies occurred, at the mercy of the Turkish people and being punished for something she could not control. Over one million of her people died, women and children marched to their deaths facing axes,

Although Armenian Americans have made significant progress politically, establishing themselves as a strong political group in the US they continue to fight the American Government to receive recognition of the Armenian Genocide. Although 43 American state governments have officially acknowledged the tragic event, congress as a whole fails to recognize the event in order to prevent turmoil with Turkey and its allies. The American government came up with a solution to the problem:

“Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That April 24, 1985, is hereby designated as "National Day of Remembrance of Man's Inhumanity to Man", and the President of the United States is authorized and requested to issue a proclamation calling upon the people of the United States to observe such day as a day of remembrance for all the victims of genocide, especially the one and one-half million people of Armenian ancestry who were the victims of the genocide perpetrated in