RUSSIAN STATE DUMA CONDEMNED AREMNIAN GENOCIDE THIS DAY 10 YEARS AGO

PanARMENIAN.Net - This day 10 years ago the State Duma of Russia adopted a statement on Condemning the Genocide of the Armenian People in 1915-1923 on 14 April 1995, Russky Sever news agency reported. The mass slaughter and deportation is the most tragic event in the history of the Armenian people. Within 1915-1923 over 1.5 million Armenians were killed, 600 thousand of those who escaped from the slaughter, spread around the globe. Armenians throughout the world have been struggling for many years to attain the official and unconditional recognition of the Armenian Genocide by the international community, as such a grave crime against humanity cannot have a statute of limitation. Argentine and Uruguay were the first to recognize the fact of the Genocide in 1965, then the acknowledgement by the parliaments of Cyprus (1990), Russia (1995), Greece (1996), Lebanon (1997), Belgium (1998) followed. In 2000 the Armenian Genocide was recognized by the Italian and French parliaments, as well as the Vatican leader John Paul II. The Genocide is recognized by the 29 out of the 50 US states. On 15 November 2000 the European Parliament passed a resolution demanding that Turkey recognize the fact of the Genocide.