{"id":8553,"date":"2019-10-30T06:45:57","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T13:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/?p=8553"},"modified":"2019-11-02T06:29:42","modified_gmt":"2019-11-02T13:29:42","slug":"a-belated-recognition-of-genocide-by-the-house-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/?p=8553","title":{"rendered":"“A Belated Recognition of Genocide by the House”, The New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Samantha Power, Opinion, October 30, 2019<\/span><\/p>\n

For too long, Turkey bullied America into silence. Not anymore.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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On Tuesday, by a vote of 405 to 11, the House of Representatives defied the Turkish government\u2019s intimidation and, for the first time in 35 years, passed a resolution that recognized the Armenian genocide.<\/p>\n

In acknowledging the Ottoman Empire\u2019s killing of more than one million Armenians as \u201cgenocide,\u201d the House follows more than two dozen countries and 49 of 50 states.<\/p>\n

This resolution matters hugely to Armenian-Americans. But it is also a reminder of how important truth-telling is to American foreign policy, and how ultimately self-defeating it is for the United States to bend to autocratic pressure tactics, whether from Turkey or anywhere else.<\/p>\n

The facts of the Ottoman campaign have long been established. At the time of the slaughter, which began in 1915, the American ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, Henry Morgenthau, cabled Washington that a \u201ccampaign of race extermination\u201d was underway, while the American consul in Aleppo, in what is now Syria, described a \u201ccarefully planned scheme to thoroughly extinguish the Armenian race.<\/p>\n

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A march in Los Angeles in April commemorated the 104th anniversary of the Armenian genocide.<\/span>Credit…<\/span>Mario Tama\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n