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And so the list grows
During a plenary
meeting the Basque Parliament on April 20, 2007 approved an
institutional declaration on the 92nd anniversary of the
Armenian Genocide, independent French journalist Jean Eckian.
The text says: "The first genocide scientifically planned,
organized and carried out in the history of humanity, was
perpetrated by the Young Turks and ideology of the Pan-Turkism
against the Armenian people, which generated the murder of
almost two million people. Crimes of this nature must be
denounced to prevent their repetition. Human and national rights
should be restored culprits should be condemned. This genocide
must deserve the sanction of the Basque people and all the
people of the world.
Basque people and institutions rejected ethnic, religious or
political discrimination, and this Parliament always denounced
all the acts of genocide, by considering that the walk of time
does not imply the lack of memory. The denunciations of the
genocides by our Parliament like those of Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraki
Kurdistan and the Ukrainian artificial famine of 1932-33, etc,
are clear examples.
By this institutional declaration, the Parliament unifies its
voice with those of the other institutions and Parliaments like
European Parliament, Council of Europe and multitude of official
and regional Parliaments, as well as the international
institutions and humanitarians who denounced these facts.”
The Basque Parliament included 6 articles in which it affirms
the authentic character of the Armenian Genocide; denounces
Turkey’s systematic negationism and rejects the frontier and
economic blockade imposed on Armenia. Moreover, the Parliament,
under the signature of the president, Izaskun Bilbao Barandica,
declares sympathy to the Armenian people, and supports their
efforts to consolidate its democratic process and to affirm in
the Caucasus area a stable space of cooperation and freedom.
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