ANCA chief poses 5 questions about U.S. Policy on Syria's Armenians

PanARMENIAN.Net - ANCA Executive Director Aram Hamparian listed “5 things you deserve to know about U.S. Policy on Syria's Armenians” in his Facebook post.

According to Hamparian, clarification is necessary as to what specific efforts the U.S. government has undertaken to ensure the delivery of humanitarian aid to all at-risk populations in Syria, including vulnerable Armenian and other Christian minorities in the Aleppo area.

“What public accounting has there been regarding the nature and scope of the U.S. aid that has actually reached the Armenian community and other Christian-populated areas in and around Aleppo?

In light of the massive destruction in and around Armenian populated areas, what has the U.S. government done to reach out to U.S.-based, international, and indigenous Armenian church and charitable organizations to help facilitate the delivery of humanitarian relief?” Hamparian asks.

Another thing to find out, Hamparian says, is what policies and practices the U.S. government has put in place to impress upon all parties in Syria to refrain from intimidation, violence, or retribution against Armenian and other Christian populations, to keep military operations away from residential Aleppo, and to confine all attacks to military targets.

“Given the presence of a longstanding Armenian population in the northern regions of Syria that is,in part, the result of Turkey's death marches during the Armenian Genocide, what has the U.S. government done to constrain Turkey from any further actions aimed at weakening, displacing, or destroying these communities?” ANCA Executive Director asks.