Genocide Recognition

From Wikipedia:

"Armenian Genocide recognition"

 

Armenian Genocide recognition refers to the formal acceptance that the massacre and forced deportation of Armenians committed by the Ottoman Empire in 1915–1923 constitutes genocide. The overwhelming majority of historians as well as academic institutions on Holocaust and Genocide Studies recognize the Armenian Genocide. As of 2014^[update], the governments of twenty-three countries, including Russia, France, as well as forty-three states of the United States of America, have recognized the events as 'genocide'. The governments of Turkey and Azerbaijan deny the Armenian Genocide

 

International Organzations' Recognition of the Genocide:

 

- United Nations (1985)    -  International Association of Genocide Scholars (1997)

 

- European Parliament (1987, 2000, 2002, 2005^, 2015)     - Council of Europe

 

- World Council of Churches       - European Alliance of YMCAs

 

- Permanent Peoples' Tribunal      - Mercosur

 

 -  Union for Reform Judaism (1989)      -  Anti-Defamation League (2007)

 

-  American Jewish Committee (2014)

 

 

Countries' Recognition of the Genocide:

 

 

- Argentina (2003)       - Armenia (1988) - then part of the USSR

 

- Belgium (1998)         - Bolivia (2014)

 

- Canada (1996)           -  Chile (2007)

 

- Cyprus (1975)              -   Czech Republic (2015)

 

- France (1998)                - Greece (1998)

 

- Italy (2000)                    - Lithuania (2005)

 

-  Lebanon (1997)             - Netherlands (2004)

 

- Ottoman Empire (1919)      -   Poland (2005)

 

- Russia (1995)                    - Slovakia (2004)

 

- Sweden (2010)                 - Switzerland (2003)

 

-  Syria (2015)                     - Uruguay (1965)

 

-  Vatican (2000)                 -  Venezuela (2005)

 

 

Regional governments' Recognition of the Genocide:

 

Australia:    - New South Wales (2007)      - South Australia (2009)

Brazil:    - São Paulo (2015)     - Ceará (2006)     - Paraná (2013)

 

Bulgaria: - Plovdiv -   Burgas -  Ruse  - Stara Zagora     -  Pazardzhik.

Spain: -  -  Basque County  -  Catalonia  - Balearic Islands  -  Navarre

Iran:     - Tehran

United Kingdom:    - Wales     - Scotland    -Northern Ireland

United States:

 

 

The states in red officially recognize the Armenian Genocide. The ones in White and the Federal Government do not.

 

- Alaska (1990)   -  Arizona (1990)   - Arkansas (2001)   - California (1986)   - Colorado (1981)   - Connecticut (1990)    - Delaware (1995)    - Florida (1990)   - Georgia (1999)   - Hawaii (2009)  - Idaho (2004)     - Illinois (1990)     - Kansas (2005)    - Louisiana (2004)     - Maine (2000)    - Maryland (1987)   - Massachusetts (1990)   -  Michigan (1986)     - Minnesota (2001)     - Missouri (2002)    - Montana (2004)   - Nebraska (2004)    - Nevada (2000)    - New Hampshire (1990)    - New Jersey (1975)    - New Mexico (2001)     - New York (1975)     - North Carolina (1996)   - North Dakota (2007)      - Ohio (2007)    - Oklahoma (1990)     - Oregon (1990)    - Pennsylvania (1990)   - Rhode Island (1990)     - South Carolina (1997)     - South Dakota (2015)     - Tennessee (2004)    - Utah (2001)     - Vermont (2004)     - Virginia (1990)    - Washington (1990)     - Wisconsin (1990)

 ^ This is the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide and it's important for everyone around the world to know the truth about what happened and to recognize that truth. It was a genocide the same way the Holocaust was for the Jews. It's time for every country to officially recognize the Armenian Genocide. ^

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_Genocide_recognition