Issue of Genocide to be included in Massachusetts school
programs
15-06-2009 17:20:00 | USA | Politics
VASHINGTON, JUNE 15, NOYAN TAPAN - ARMENIANS TODAY. In a
major blow to Turkey's global campaign to suppress the truth
about the Armenian Genocide, U.S. District Court Chief Judge
Mark Wolf ruled in favor of the Massachusetts Department of
Education, allowing it to continue teaching the facts of the
Armenian Genocide and other crimes against humanity in schools'
history books and speak about this in public schools.
According to the Azg daily, the Armenian Assembly of
America (AAA) appreciates the court's decision emphasizing that
it sends a clear message to Turkey and its revisionist allies
that history cannot be rewritten to further Ankara's
state-sponsored denial campaign. Carolyn Mugar, the Board's
President stressed that owing to the overwhelming historical and
legal evidence documenting the incontestable fact of the
Armenian Genocide, this ruling is a victory for all those
concerned about genocide education and prevention of such
crimes.