ArmInfo.The recognition of Alabama - the 49th US state - of the fact of the Armenian Genocide speaks of increasing pressure on Washington and Ankara in this matter. Head of the Office of Hay Dat and Political Affairs of the ARF- Dashnaktsutyun Party Kiro Manoyan expressed a similar opinion to ArmInfo.
On March 20, the US state of Alabama recognized the Armenian Genocide, the governor of the state, Kay Ivey, proclaimed April as the "month of informing about the Genocide." Alabama became the 49th of 50 states in the United States that recognized the fact of the Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey. Thus, Mississippi is the only US state that still does not recognize the Genocide.
"I appreciate the recognition of the Armenian Genocide by individual US states as a political, but by no means legal, impulse. Accordingly, even if the realities of 1915 are recognized as the last state of Mississippi, which has not yet made it, this will not mean its recognition by the United States at the state level ", he stressed.
However, in a political sense, Manoyan considers the recognition of the fact of the Armenian Genocide by the 49th American states in the context of pressure on the executive, federal authorities in Washington. He noted that only the latter have the right to recognize the fact of the Armenian Genocide at the state level. In his opinion, this alignment within the United States itself is already a political force, which gives Armenian organizations additional weight to resolve certain issues in favor of Armenia and Armenian interests in general.
On April 24, 2015, Armenia celebrated the tragic date - the 100th anniversary of the genocide of the Armenian people. It was in April 1915 that the persecution of Armenians living in Turkey began as a result of the criminal actions of the Young Turk authorities. Within a few years, about one and a half million Armenians were killed.
The Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey is the first large-scale international crime in the modern history of mankind, committed with the aim of killing an entire nation on political and ethnic grounds. The deliberate actions of the Turkish government are reflected in indisputable facts, supported by irrefutable documents and evidence from various sources. The fact of the Armenian Genocide is recognized by 25 countries of the world, individual entities of a number of countries.