By David Jonasson
(Stockholm News)—The massacre of Armenians and other ethnic groups in 1915 was a genocide. This the Swedish Parliament decided with least possible margin on Thursday evening.
By a vote of 131 to 130 the opposition’s reservations became victorious over the committee’s proposal. For this to be possible required four center-right members to vote against their own parties. This was done by two members of the Liberal Peoples Party, one from the Christian Democrats, and one maverick MP who formerly belonged to the Moderates.
The government’s line was to not classify the massacre of, among others, Assyrians and Armenians as genocide as it should not be up to politicians to write history.
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I’m glad Sweeden finally mustered enough courage to call a spade a spade. Its about bloody time!
This is very good news. It was a genocide of Armenians, Assyrians and Pontic Greeks. Let’s all work together and keep the momentum.
It is just funny. A parliament finds a right to condemn a part of history as genocide. What if it was not accepted? Does it mean there was no genocide? The result was 132 to 131. So, the Turks may not commit genocide. Actually they did not. Anyway, as I sad, funny, just funny.
I really enjoyed the last part of this wonderful news where it said that “The government’s line was to not classify the massacre of, among others, Assyrians and Armenians as genocide as it should not be up to politicians to write history.”
In my opinion the US congress should also adopt this Quote well that is if they’re civilized
Amazing how Armenian diaspora monies and intimidation can get members of various christian parliaments to pass a resolution which they themselves are personally clueless about! Maybe we should get Ethiopia’s government to pass a resolution recognizing America’s treatment of the Native Indians as a true GENOCIDE! Nah, Armenian diaspora millions will just appear, as they always do, in the pockets of key Ethiopian politicians to not only stop the recognition, but to then bribe them into recognizing an alleged “genocide”!
It seems the facts, a prospect of honest discussion of the events of 1915, true acknowledgement by people on either side of their dark past, are not really as important as sticking another finger into the Turkish eye. What do more such resolutions and politicizing have brought us so far? Who do you think is winning and what? Will Armenians declare victory finally, and declare they won the second round when The Eskimo nation passes a similar resolution? Shame that propspects of normalization have all but gone.
Ya Murat, You know if your government has not covered up for the nasty deeds that they did to the Armenians in Anatolia and other places in present Turkey , you would have known the facts , you know that those masacers was going on since the 1800 not only in 1915 , and your governments used to sweep it under their carpet s , the genocide is a fact and Turkey refuses to accept it , this is not a victory for the Armenians this is the truth comming out after years of denials .
Murat, tell me which government was the one imposing preconditions regarding Artsakh a mere one day after the protocols were signed?
The question is not when will the Armenians stop, it’s when will the Turks convince themselves that enough evidence exists to make a “historical commission” superfluous and inappropriate. Read Taner Akcam’s book. Read Elie Wiesel and Israel Charny…I could go on, the evidence is endless…