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PROCLAMATION <br />FOR <br />ARMENIAN MARTYRS DAY <br />APRIL 24TH, 1998 <br />WHEREAS, between 1915-1923, the extermination of more than one and one-half million <br />Armenians and the deportation of countless other Armenians took place by the Ottoman Turks; and <br />WHEREAS, during this atrocity, Armenians were forced to witness the slaughter of their relatives <br />and the loss of their ancestral homelands; and <br />WHEREAS, Armenians assert that the government of modern day Turkey refuses to recognize the <br />facts of the genocide; and <br />WHEREAS, the denial of the Armenian genocide by the present day Turkish government serves to <br />taint history and disavows Armenians of the right to their homeland and heritage; and serves to taint <br />history and disavows Armenians of the right to their homeland and heritage; and <br />WHEREAS, ancestral Armenian lands taken by the Ottoman Turks have not been returned to the <br />Armenian people, nor have the Armenians received compensation for their losses; and <br />WHEREAS, Armenians have traditionally designated Apri124th as ARMENIAN MARTYRS DAY, <br />in recognition and remembrance of those who died during the Armenian genocide; and <br />WHEREAS, it is important to remember history so that mistakes of the past are not repeated in future <br />generations. <br />NOW, THEREFORE, the Orange County Board of Commissioners proclaims Apri124, 1998 as <br />ARMENIAN MARTYRS DAY <br />in Orange County, North Carolina this the 7th day of April, 1998. <br />M aret W. Brown, Chair <br />Orange County Board of Commissioners <br />