HomeMy WebLinkAboutS Proclamation - Human Rights and Relations - Armenian Martyrs Day 04-07-1998-5fPROCLAMATION
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 by 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 Apri124, 1998 as
ARMENIAN MARTYRS DAY
in Orange County, North Carolina this the 7th day of April, 1998.
M aret W. Brown, Chair
Orange County Board of Commissioners