Co-Chairs of the Congressional Caucus on Armenian Issues Frank Pallone (D-NJ) and Joe Knollenberg (R – MI) have addressed a letter to President George Bush and called on him to give an unequivocal assessment of the Armenian Genocide in 1915. Armenian Assembly of America reports the letter in particular says that in the course of his election campaign in 2000 George W. Bush had pledged to recognize Armenian Genocide. While in his statement April 25, 2001 the US President did not use the term “genocide” but stated about “extermination of 1.5 million of Armenians.” The congressmen called on the US President to include the word “genocide” in his traditional appeal to the American Armenians expected to be delivered April 24 this year. The letter stresses that “when America is recovering from the latest terrorist attack September 11, 2001 and is waging a fair struggle against violence, it is necessary to remember the earlier victims of intentional massacre.” “Maybe today better than ever we can understand and share the horrors and the sufferings of 1.5 million Armenians inhumanly killed in Ottoman Turkey and those who survived and found refuge in USA,” – the letter notes.
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