HomeMy WebLinkAboutAgenda - 04-07-1998 - 5fORANGE COUNTY
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
Action Agenda
Item No. ~_
ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT
Meeting Date: Apri17,1998
SUBJECT: PROCLAMATION FOR ARMENIAN MARTYRS DAY, APRIL 24TH, 1998
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DEPARTMENT: Human Rights and Relations
PUBLIC HEARING: _ Yes XX No
BUDGET AMENDMENT NEEDED
Yes XX No
ATTACHMENT(S):
• Proposed Proclamation
INFORMATION CONTACT:
Oliver Melvin, Ext. 2252
TELEPHONE NUMBERS:
Hillsborough - 732 -8181
Chapel Hill - 967-9251
Durham - 688-7331
Mebane - 227-2031
PURPOSE: To recognize and celebrate ARMENIAN MARTYRS DAY.
BACKGROUND: Armenians have traditionally designated April 24th as ARMENIAN
MARTYRS DAY, in recognition and remembrance of those who died during the Armenian
genocide between 1915-1923. This department has historically called upon the Orange County
Board of Commissioners to officially proclaim Apri124th as ARMENIAN MARTYRS DAY and
does so again this year.
RECOMMENDATION(S): The Manager recommends that the Board adopt the proposed
proclamation and authorize the Chair to sign it.
PROCLAMATION
FOR
ARMENIAN MARTYRS DAY
APRIL 24TH, 1998
WHEREAS, between 1915-1923, the extermination of more than one and one-half
million Armenians and the deportation of countless other Armenians took place by
the Ottoman Turks; and
WHEREAS, during this atrocity, Armenians were forced to witness the slaughter of
their relatives and the loss of their ancestral homelands; and
WHEREAS, Armenians assert that the government of modern day Turkey refuses
to recognize the facts of the genocide; and
WHEREAS, the denial of the Armenian genocide 6y the present day Turkish
government serves to taint history and disavows Armenians of the right to their
homeland and heritage; and serves to taint history and disavows Armenians of the
right to their homeland and heritage; and
WHEREAS, ancestral Armenian lands taken by the Ottoman Turks have not been
returned to the Armenian people, nor have the Armenians received compensation
for their losses; and
WHEREAS, Armenians have traditionally designated Apri124th as ARMENIAN
MARTYRS DAY, in recognition and remembrance of those who died during the
Armenian genocide; and
WHEREAS, it is important to remember history so that mistakes of the past are not
repeated in future generations.
NOW, THEREFORE, the Orange County Board of Commissioners proclaims April
24,1998 as
ARMENIAN MARTYRS DAY
in Orange County, North Carolina this the 7th day of Apri1,1998.
Margaret W. Brown, Chair
Board of Commissioners