With April 24 fast approaching...

"...The New York Times has recently revised its guidelines for editors regarding the Armenian genocide. The new policy notes, `After careful study of scholarly definitions of `genocide,' we have decided to accept the term in references to the Turks' mass destruction of Armenians in and around 1915.' The guidelines continue, `The expression `Armenian genocide' may be used freely and should not be qualified with phrasing like `what Armenians call.' The Times' new guidelines state that: `By most historical accounts, the Ottoman empire killed more than one million Armenians in a campaign of death and mass deportation aimed at eliminating the Armenian population throughout what is now Turkey.' This is a great step in our fight for recognition, so please pass this on!!"

-from an email from the USC ASA.

great steps make me happy about a very sad topic.

Posted by: monica / 4/20/2004 01:17:00 PM (permalink)

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