David L. Phillips: Obama Should Pronounce the Phrase Armenian Genocide
David L. Phillips, currently director of the Program on Peace-building and Human Rights at Columbia University’s Institute for the Study of Human Rights and a prominent American political scientist and analyst, in an interview with the Turkish newspaper Today’s Zaman noted that the US president Barack Obama should pronounce the phrase Armenian Genocide, horizonweekly.ca reports.
In response to the journalist’s question about the US official position on the Armenian Genocide, Phillips said:
"Let’s define "genocide." It has four elements: more than one person must have died and these people must have been members of the same ethnic, religious or racial group. The perpetrator must have intended them to die and their killing must have been systemic. What happened to the Armenians clearly meets these criteria. The United States should recognize the events in Armenia as genocide. President Obama has made his personal views well known. When you become the president of the United States you don’t have personal views – your views are those of the US government. It would be helpful if he was to use the term "Armenian genocide" and then the US and Turkey can move on and set this issue aside."
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