WASHINGTON—The Armenian National Committee of America welcomes U.S. House passage of H.R.943, the Never Again Education Act, a measure that – if passed by the Senate and signed into law by President Trump – would authorize the Department of Education to make annual $2 million grants to support Holocaust education in each of the next five years.
In the wake of last year’s unanimous (100 to 0) Senate adoption of S.Res.150 and near-unanimous passage (405 to 11) of H.Res.296, the ANCA is exploring both administrative and legislative avenues to secure federal funding for public education regarding the Ottoman Empire’s World-War I-era genocide of Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians, Chaldeans, Syriacs, Arameans, and Maronites.
“Turkey’s extermination and exile of millions of Christians has been condemned by Congress and recognized by past presidents, yet is still actively denied by Turkey, including through a vast campaign of toxic lies and distortions dumped into America’s schools and universities,” said ANCA Executive Director Aram Hamparian. “Our federal government needs to arm America’s schoolchildren with the truth as a barrier against this sort of destructive foreign influence in our nation’s schools.”
The House version of the Never Again Education Act was authored by Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY). The Senate version was introduced by Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-NV) and currently has 28 cosponsors.
A resolution along the same lines as the Never Again Education Act, H.Res.27, encourages more states and school districts to include Holocaust education in their curriculum. This measure has been referred to the House Education and Workforce Committee. The ANCA has written to encourage this panel’s Chairman, Rep. Bobby Scott (D-VA), to allow for the consideration of amendments supporting increased public education regarding the Ottoman Empire’s genocide of Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians, Chaldeans, Syriacs, Arameans, and Maronites.
The Genocide Education Project reports that among the numerous states that require instruction on genocide, fifteen specifically note the Armenian Genocide as a primary example: California, Connecticut, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Rhode Island, Texas, and Virginia. Review the various genocide education curriculum requirements and curriculum education materials offered by the Genocide Education Project.
To learn more about state-by-state advocacy for Armenian Genocide education, reach out to ANCA Eastern Region: ancaer@anca.org or ANCA Western Region: info@ancawr.org.
Classification of the Armenian Genocide to
Many Types During 1915-1923
Ottomans genocided every element that God created, piece by piece;
living bodies ended undefined genocided skeletons.
1st Type: Genociding Intellectuals –
They killed the most literate, around 600 of them, by crushing
their skulls open, to discover why they were so clever and stripping
them off their clothes because the garments were European.
The Ottomans then proceeded to abuse reproductive organs.
“Genociding Intellectuals”: the date for the Armenian Genocide
was April 24, 1915, whilst the same fate befell Arab intellectuals
on May 6, 1916.
2nd Type: Genociding Wealthy Families –
They extinguished whole families from the unborn
to the elderly, confiscating homes and belongings.
3rd Type: Genociding thru Deportation to Der-Zor Desert –
They could not annihilate any more, so the Ottomans deported
people to Der-Zor dessert without food. Many were left to die on
the way.
4th Type: Genociding thru Rape –
In many other sad events, soldiers raped and left…(an example
is during the Bengali Genocide by Pakistani militants on
March 25, 1971), but Turks raped and slayed.
5th Type: Genociding Pregnant Brides, Women –
They lanced bellies of the pregnant women with their scimitars in
order to discover the sex of the unborn! Arab Beduin’s eyes
witnessed most events.
I heard from Syrian women who hailed from Dara’a, Syria, that
every night the sound of a baby-boy crying would fill the air in that
village. The Sheikh explained to them that this sound was the “Soul
of a Baby” who had been alive when his mother’s belly was ripped
open …. Ever since then, many years ago, he has cried every night!
Fiction may be, but it illustrates the degree of suffering endured by
Armenian mothers.
6th Type: Genociding Boys above 8-years old after measuring their heights-
I read the story of this man on the Internet long ago. He was an
Armenian who immigrated to Australia later and was Turkified, . . . He wrote, “I was 12 years old then, but I was very short; they
measured my height and thought I was younger than eight.
So I was very lucky not to have been slayed then . . . ”
Those below the age of eight, once Turkified, were taken to
under a new identity become soldiers in the Turkish Army.
7th Type: Genociding Young Girls by employing them as household
unpaid servants – later using them in many other ways!
8th Type: Genociding by throwing the whole village populace into valleys.
9th Type: Genociding Identity: Turkification, . . . –
(They used Turkification on Arabs as well, which defined in
Arabic language as ‘Tattreek’).
The rest of the Armenians who were left were Turkified, changing
their name, surname, religion, language, culture, ethnicity;
(Genociding Identity: De-identification, Islamization
Languageification, Cultureification, Ethnicification, . . .)
10th Type: Genociding Skeletons –
Shipping and selling the genocided bones to factories, they
produced products. The factories that bought them should
confess….
11th Type: Genociding Buildings: Homes, Palaces, Factories, Churches,
Cathedrals, Monasteries, Schools, Domes, Altars, . . .
They transformed the best buildings to Turkish Temples or
stables, I would not call them Mosques because in the Islamic
religion it is not permitted to change Churches to Mosques
according to Khalifa Omar Ibn al-Khattab (584-644). See Index
12th Type: Genociding Ancient Sites which Existed B.C. –
They changed Portasar Temple to Gobekli Tepe.
13th Type: Genociding Lands, Gardens, Trees, . . . –
These had been planted and cultivated by Armenian hands
for millenniums.
14th Type: Genociding animal names from Latin names in their dictionary–
those, which were defined as Armeniana, Kurdistanica they said
that any animal carrying Armenian and Kurdish names before
B.C. must change to Turkish. Wild sheep called Ovis Armeniana
became Ovis Orientalis Anatolicus. Roe deer are known as
Capreolus Capreolus Armenus became Capreolus Cuprelus
Capreolus.) 15th Type: Genociding History, Archives, Books, . . . –
Turks tried to prove that Armenians never existed in their
ancient land.
16th Type: Genociding Armenian Language, Alphabets, Culture, Music,
Arts, . . .
Well-known genocide music “Adana” with Armenian lyrics was
reinvented as Turkish music, but was discovered late!
The Ottoman government ordered genociders to cut the tongues
of those who spoke other than Turkish.
17th Type: Genociding Names of Mountains, Cities, Streets, . . . –
Ararat’s name was changed to Agre This was refused by Geo
graphical Maps, History books, Encyclopedias, Dictionaries,
Wikipedia … because it is Biblical-God defined it as Ararat and
never Agre. No human agreed to change Ararat. The word Agre
was not even accepted by the Internet.
I say, “Who can agree on something unagreeable?”
18th Type: Genociding Statues, Tombs, Khachkars (cross stones) –
Insulting the skeletons of the dead from centuries before the birth
of Christ. They took grave stones, some those expensive stones
and marbles were used to build Ottoman homes.
19th Type: Genociding Wealth: Gold, Insurances, Bank accounts in many
countries including in Great Britain, . . .
20th Type: Genociding Possessions –
The Ottoman government took possession of all “abandoned”
Armenian goods and properties, which no-one was allowed to
claim later.
21st Type: Armenian Orphans –
After the genocide of 1915, Turkish military followed Armenian
orphans into Ottoman occupied territories, searching Beduin
tents, and orphanages in Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq to Turkify or
annihilate them, see Index.
Recent genetic studies prove that almost 10% of Turks carry Armenian genes if not more!
This classification should be entered under the word ‘Genocide’ in the
Oxford and Cambridge Dictionaries as well as in the
Merriam–Webster of the USA.
By©Sylva Portoian, M.D. – April 24, 2010
Poetry should enter Genocide Education …
Poetry has a soul …
“Carve Poetry INTO Your Psyche
To breathe again and again …
Infinitely …”
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From my Poetry Book
“BRING OUT our Genocided Skulls & Artful Hands”
The Book Inauguration was celibrated in Komitas Museum Yervan May 2019
“I Am Your Soul
From Your Genes ~
Your Genocide!”
From the Ruins
I heard a Voice
Calling my Name
Calling my Cross
From the Ruins
I heard a Voice
Calling God’s Name
To read . . . the prose
From the Ruins
I heard Music
Music that guides the roads
How to reach there?
From the Ruins
I heard a Cry
Cry of a child
Ceaseless . . . Melancholic . . .
From the Ruins
I saw a Light
A Light Shining
From Sighing Eyes…!
From the Ruins
I heard a scream
A scream . . . continuously
Tinnitus-ing my ears . . . till sigh …
Calling, “I’m alive –
I’m Your Soul from Genocide!”
SYLVA PORTOIAN, MD
February 21, 2014
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Genocide Is
‘A-Genocide’
Genocide is Genocide
What to comment …
How to comment more?
Speechless tragedy
Lamenting daily
As are our prayers.
God refused to hear our voices
Hence, we continue
Grieving over dried roses.
We must initiate spiritual power
And ‘Demand Justice’
For our lost, neglected causes!
We ask honest nations …
Who can read … feel …
With our hidden crosses!
SYLVA PORTOIAN, MD
July 12, 2012
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‘Genocided’:
Armenians Genocided
Thru Centuries
A new verb ‘Genocided’
In my Glossary of Terms: Neologism;
Formed . . . when the original land owners
Of the Armenian Highlands were
Scimitared . . . Turkified . . .
Lost their identity soundlessly
Thru centuries and endless times!
Armenians were slayed
From 1064* – 1923 AD . . .
Till this day, civil-day!
They were followed everywhere,
The recognition of their Genocide
Suppressed by the so-called
Civilized democratic states . . .
Who proudly display
In full view of the world
The “Statue of Liberty”
On their highest sea-sight.
The irony being it was designed by
The French Architects—
A nation well-known
To be the most liberal of All.
The Gene of Freedom**
Ignites eternally in the French’s Blood:
(Cardiomyocytes, Astrocytes, Dendrites) and
Tries to illuminate the spirits of other nations . . . lost;
Thus, this can overthrow tyrants . . .
Those who with their criminal minds,
Dim their nation’s light.
SYLVA PORTOIAN, MD
April 24, 2007
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