Genocide recognition domino effect

The domino effect of genocide recognition, as Harut Sassounian mentions in this weeks column, is quite obvious now. We have won battles all over the world, with media giants like Time Europe distributing hundreds of thousands of free Armenian Genocide DVDs with their magazine, the New York Times, LA Times and others now using the term Armenian Genocide very clearly as a matter of policy, and even now with the Anti-Defamation League, whose leader is known for his stubbornness and refusal to change. Our one semi-failure was to reverse the recall of Ambassador John Evans, but in the follow-up we did manage to block the new Ambassadorial nomination. When we get the US State Department to finally bend to the cause of justice, truth, and transparency - which they purport to stand for themselves, as America is supposed to, we will seal the fate of genocide recognition in the USA. We might just get congressional recognition before that, as the number of co-sponsors of the genocide bill now is more than half of congress, and the speaker says she will introduce the bill... we'll see. Even the tone of articles in Turkey is changing day by day. The end of the massive battle to get back the recognition we once had, but which Turkey took away through decades of diplomacy and spending, is in sight.

But again, we must not drop the ball on reparations. The fact that "it was a long time ago" should only amplify demands, as Turkey shat on the descendants of the genocide for almost a century, rather than make amends right away.