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Elections 2004
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| Selected Statements by the Major Democratic Presidential Candidates on the Armenian Genocide | | Wesley
Clark | "Under the cover of World War I, the Ottoman authorities rounded up and executed Armenian leaders in Constantinople and other towns, they desecrated Armenian churches, and they ordered the deportation of the Armenian people, sending hundreds of thousands of men, women and children, old and young, into the barren desert, where were murdered en route, or where they died of starvation and disease. The precise death toll is unknowable, but it is likely that some one million Armenians were killed. What happened in 1915 was genocide." | | Howard Dean | No public statement on the Armenian Genocide. | John
Edwards | "The time is right to recognize the Armenian Genocide… It is the just thing to do. It is about time we recognized it... We should stand fully behind Armenia." | John
Kerry | Ignoring the Armenian genocide, extraordinary evidence of man’s capacity for inhumanity, can open a Pandora’s box of selective morality a virtual guarantee that similar tragedy will touch other people in the future. Selective morality only leads to selective genocide. We must never ignore the persecution and slaughter of any people" | Dennis
Kucinich | "We must ensure that the historical lessons of the Armenian Genocide are properly understood to prevent future genocides and sensless killings. Therefore, I am writing to urge you to stand by your pledge made in the 2000 and appropriately acknowledge the Armenian Genocide as genocide in your April 24th commemoration statement." | Joseph
Lieberman | "Remember what ties us together is that we are all children of the same God and, as such, we are all entitled to what the Declaration of Independence says - the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, the same rights that those victims of the Armenian Genocide had taken away from them violently. So we commit ourselves as we go forward, remembering the past but committed to making sure not only that it does not happen again, but that we enhance those rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness in our country and throughout the world." |
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