YEREVAN, April 25. /Mediamax/. The Armenian Assembly of America (AAA) expressed “regret and disappointment today at President Bush’s failure to keep a campaign promise.”
Mediamax was informed today in the AAA headquarters that in his June 2, 2000 letter to the Armenian Assembly, then-candidate Bush said, “Armenians were subjected to a genocidal campaign that defies comprehension. Their travails should lead all decent people to remember and acknowledge the facts and lessons of an awful crime in a century of bloody crimes against humanity. If elected president, I would ensure that our nation properly recognizes the tragic suffering of the Armenian people.”
Assembly Board of Directors Chairman Van Krikorian called the President’s failure to use the word “genocide” disappointing. He said: “The American Armenians are surprised and disturbed that he would break a campaign promise.”
“Today marks the commemoration of one of the great tragedies of history: the forced exile and annihilation of approximately 1.5 million Armenians in the closing years of the Ottoman Empire,” Bush says in his statement. –0–
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