Obama's playing word games falls beneath the dignity of the American people, ANCA says
24.04.2015,
15:34
The Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) Executive Director Aram Hamparian offered the following comment on President Obama's April 24th 'Armenian Remembrance Day' statement.
YEREVAN, April 24. / ARKA /. The Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) Executive Director Aram Hamparian offered the following comment on President Obama's April 24th 'Armenian Remembrance Day' statement.
"The sad spectacle of President Obama playing word games with genocide, so obviously dodging the truth at the direction of a foreign power, falls beneath the dignity of the American people," said Hamparian.
"Candidate Obama was right when he said that 'America deserves a leader who speaks truthfully about the Armenian Genocide and responds forcefully to all genocides.'
He has, regretfully, proven to the world today that he is not that president. In fact, it's now clear that President Obama's misguided attempt to appease Ankara has only isolated Washington," he added.
In his annual address to American Armenians president Obama used the Armenian words Meds Yeghern to refer to the first mass atrocity of the 20th century, recognized by more than two dozen countries and most prominent experts as genocide.
'Beginning in 1915, the Armenian people of the Ottoman Empire were deported, massacred, and marched to their deaths. Their culture and heritage in their ancient homeland were erased. Amid horrific violence that saw suffering on all sides, one and a half million Armenians perished,' Obama said.-0-
