Sabri Atman, second from right, with members of the California State Assembly.
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By
Carmen Morad, 2018-04-28
Sabri
Atman, the founder and the director of the Assyrian Genocide and Research
Center, was invited to attend the 103rd Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide
Remembrance at the California State Assembly in Sacramento California on April
23, 2018. Assembly Joint Resolution No. 37 was introduced by Assembly Member
Friedman and coauthored with Assembly Member Nazarian.
The
Turkish genocide claimed the lives of 750,000 Assyrians (75%), 1 million Greeks
and 1.5 million Armenians.
AJR
37 designates "...the year 2018 as 'State of California Year of
Commemoration of the Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide of 1915--1923,' would
designate April 24, 2018, as 'State of California Day of Commemoration of the
103rd Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide of 1915--1923,' and would call upon
the President of the United States and the United States Congress to formally
and consistently reaffirm the historical truth that the atrocities committed
against the Armenian people constituted genocide." AJR 37 also states "...1.5
million men, line 16 women, and children of Armenian descent, and hundreds of
line 17 thousands of Assyrians, Greeks, and other Christians, lost their line
18 lives at the hands of the Ottoman Turkish Empire and the Republic line 19 of
Turkey..."
AJR37
reaffirms, these crimes against humanity also had the consequence of
permanently removing all traces of the Armenians and other targeted people
(Assyrians, Greeks, other Christian minorities) from their historic homelands
of more than four millennia, and enriching the perpetrators with the lands and
property of the victims of these crimes, including the usurpation of several
thousand churches.
Assembly
member Heath Flora welcomed and recognized Mr. Sabri Atman and other members of
the Assyrian community in his district. Mr. Sam David, president of the
Assyrian American Civic Club of Turlock, invited Mr. Atman as a special guest
to attend this special commemoration of the 103rd Anniversary of the 1915
Genocide.
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