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"We are facing a terrifying danger, and that is forgetting.
We need to remember the horrors of history if we do not want to relive them. The genocide in Armenia is one such horror and such suffering can only be alleviated if it is recognised.
Recognition of the genocide in Armenia is a recognition of the dignity of the individual.
We cannot forget the deportation of the entire Armenian population to the deserts of Mesopotamia, the deportation of the Armenians of eastern Anatolia in 24 hours, the shooting of able-bodied men, the persecution of women, children and old people, who covered hundreds of kilometres on foot, without medical care and without food, divested of their belongings, raped, their throats slit on the open road, the deportation in 1915 of the Armenians of Cilicia and eastern Anatolia, the assassination of 600 Armenian prominent citizens in Constantinople, the extermination of more than a million Armenians in just over a year – in other words, almost half the Ottoman Armenians.
All the accounts bear witness to the same ordeal of the civil populations of Armenia. I remember the 1987 resolution which called on Turkey to acknowledge the Armenian genocide as a precondition to its accession to the European Union.
I voted today for the amendments calling for this acknowledgement in order to keep this testimony alive and to acknowledge a people’s suffering.
Turkey will gain in stature among nations when it agrees to face up to its past."@en1
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