Президент США почтил символическую дату начала геноцида армян и сделал заявление club.cnews.ru - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from club.cnews.ru Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Calls for Divesting from, Condemning, and Sanctioning Turkey and Azerbaijan.
LOS ANGELES LACDP Elected Member and DSCC Member Elen Asatryan has introduced a resolution, which will be considered at the California Democratic Convention taking place from April 29 through May 2, condemning Turkey and Azerbaijan for the war crimes they committed over the course of 44 days after their attack on the Republic of Artsakh and Armenia, which began on September 27, 2020.
The resolution also urges Congress and the Biden Administration to sanction Turkey and Azerbaijan and demand that Azerbaijani authorities immediately release all Armenian POWS and captured civilians. Furthermore, it also calls on the California Public Employees’ Retirement System and the State Teachers’ Retirement System to take socially responsible steps and divest all public employee retirement funds from investment vehicles issued by Turkey and Azerbaijan until Turkey recognizes the Armenian Genocide of 1915 – 1923, a
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Turkey’s response has been on the predicted lines. President Erdogan accused President Biden of yielding to political pressure from “radical Armenian circles and anti-Turkey groups” and asked him to “reverse this wrong step immediately”
President Joe Biden will be remembered by the global Armenian community as the first US President who formally described the large-scale massacre of Armenians by the Ottoman Turks during the First World War as “genocide” . He did so through a Presidential statement on April 24, 2021. The day is commemorated by Armenians all over the world as “Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day”
Ten million Armenians including an estimated seven million Armenian diaspora spread all over the world have been demanding the recognition of Armenian Genocide by the Turkish Ottoman regime during and after the World War 1.
With reports showing anti-Jewish incidents leading among religiously motivated hate crimes in California, and students in the Bay Area and beyond reporting a seriesof concerningantisemitic incidents, state lawmakers have introduced a bill aimed to bolster Holocaust education among middle- and high-school students.
The “Never Again Education Act,” introduced in February, sailed through the state Senate’s education committee by a 7-0 vote on April 14. It follows a similar federal law of the same name approved by Congress last year, which allocated $10 million for an online repository for Holocaust-education resources.
The bill, SB 693, was introduced by state Sen. Henry Stern, who said the issue of Holocaust education is “personal” to him, noting he has Holocaust survivors in his family. The curricula many schools are using today is “pretty stale,” he added. Most haven’t been updated since the 1980s.