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Titolo: HOLOCAUST SCHOLARS URGE WESTERN DEMOCRACIES TO RECOGNIZE THE ARMENIAN HOLOCAUST

Statement by 126 Holocaust Scholars, Holders of Academic Chairs, and
Directors of Holocaust Research and Studies Centers
126 HOLOCAUST SCHOLARS AFFIRM THE INCONTESTABLE FACT OF THE ARMENIAN
GENOCIDE AND URGE WESTERN DEMOCRACIES TO OFFICIALLY RECOGNIZE IT
At the Thirtieth Anniversary of the Scholar's Conference on the
Holocaust and the Churches Convening at St. Joseph University,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 3-7, 2000, one hundred twenty-six
Holocaust Scholars, holders of Academic Chairs and Directors of
Holocaust Research and Studies Centers, participants of the Conference,
signed a statement affirming that the World War I Armenian Genocide is
an incontestable historical fact and accordingly urge the governments
of Western democracies to likewise recognize it as such. The
petitioners, among whom is Nobel Laureate for Peace Elie Wiesel, who
was the keynote speaker at the conference, also asked the Western
Democracies to urge the Government and Parliament of Turkey to finally
come to terms with a dark chapter of Ottoman-Turkish history and to
recognize the Armenian Genocide. This would provide an invaluable
impetus to the process of the democratization of Turkey.
Below is a partial list of the signatories:
 Prof. Yehuda Bauer
Distinguished Professor
Hebrew University
Director, The International Institute of Holocaust Research
Yad Vashem, Jerusalem
Prof. Israel Charny, Director
Institute of the Holocaust and Genocide, Jerusalem
Professor at the Hebrew University,
Editor-in-Chief of The Encyclopedia of Genocide
Prof. Ward Churchill
Ethnic Studies
The University of Colorado, Boulder
Prof. Stephen Feinstein, Director
Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
University of Minnesota
Prof. Saul Friedman, Director
Holocaust and Jewish Studies
Youngston State University, Ohio
Prof. Edward Gaffney
Valparaiso University Law School
Prof. Zev Garber
Los Angeles Valley College
Prof. Dorota Glowacka
University of King's Collage
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Dr. Irving Greenberg, President
Jewish Life Network
Prof. Herbert Hirsch
Virginia Commonwealth University
Prof. Irving L. Horowitz
Hannah Arendt Distinguished Professor
Rutgers University, NJ
Rabbi Dr. Steve Jacobs
Temple Sinai Shalom
Huntsville, Alabama
Associate Editor of The Encyclopedia of Genocide
Prof. Steven Katz
Distinguish Professor
Director, Center for Judaic Studies
Boston University
 Prof. Richard Libowitz
Temple University
Dr. Marcia Littell
Stockton College
Exec. Director, Scholars' Conference
On the Holocaust and the Churches
Franklin Littell
Emeritus Professor
Temple University
Prof. Hubert G. Locke
Washington University
Co-founder of the Annual Scholar's Conference
On the Holocaust and the Churches
Dr. Elizabeth Maxwell
Executive Director of the International Scholarly
Conference on the Holocaust, London, England
Prof. Erik Markusen
Southwest State University, MN
Prof. Saul Mendlowitz
Dag Hammerskjold Distinguished Professor
of International Law
Rutgers University
Prof. Jack Needle, Director
Center for Holocaust Studies
Brookdale Community College
Lincroft, NJ
Dr. Philip Rosen, Director
Holocaust Education Center of the Delaware Valley
Prof. Alan S, Rosenbaum
Dept. of Philosophy
Cleveland State University
William L. Shulman, President
Association of Holocaust Organizations City University of New York
Prof. Samuel Totten
The University of Arkansas
Assoc. Editor of The Encyclopedia of Genocide
Prof. Elie Wiesel
Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities
Boston University
Founding Chairman of the United States
Holocaust Memorial Council
Nobel Laureate for Peace
 I hereby declare that the originals of these one hundred and
twenty-six signatories are on file in my office. All affiliations
supplied are for identification purposes only.
Dr. Stephen Feinstein, Director,
Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
University of Minnesota

 GENOCIDE AND URGE WESTERN DEMOCRACIES TO OFFICIALLY RECOGNIZE IT
So write a history book. Sheesh!
The Nazi's tried to wipe out all of their mentally ill and
incompetents, too. No one speaks up for them to this day.
Then there were the Japanese with their Unit 731. Before that it was
Stalin and Lenin and the millions they starved in planned famines and
purges. Mao did the same after the war. In fact, Mao had so many mass
purges he started using the term "cultural revolution." Then there was
the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and the million estimated dead
during reunification in 1975-76. Pol Pot 1.7 million dead.
Totalitarian = bad.
And no matter how reasonable they may start to sound, it's always the
SAME EQUATION:
Totalitarian = bad. DRV. PRC. North Korea. Iran.
It's why they get along with each other. Islamic Totalitarians can do
business with Communist Totalitarians.
They're cut from the same cloth.
They bamboozle you, it's /your/ fuckin' fault.
Next time the Armenians find themselves thinking a police state
wouldn't be such a bad thing as long as the right people are put in
charge, think again. 
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Art