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PROCLAMATION <br />for <br />ARMENIAN MARTYRS DAY <br />WHEREAS, between 1915-1923, the extermination of more than one and one- <br />half million Armenians and the deportation of countless other <br />Armenians took place by the Ottoman Turks; and <br />WHEREAS, during this atrocity, Armenians were forced to witness the slaughter <br />of their relatives and the loss of their ancestral homelands; and <br />WHEREAS, Armenians assert that the government of modern-day Turkey <br />refuses to recognize the facts of the genocide; and <br />WHEREAS, the denial of the Armenian genocide by the present-day Turkish <br />government serves to taint history and disavows Armenians of the <br />right to their homeland and heritage; and <br />WHEREAS, ancestral Armenian lands taken by the Ottoman Turks have not <br />been returned to the Armenian people, nor have the Armenians <br />received compensation for their losses; and <br />WHEREAS, Armenians have traditionally designated Apri124~ as ARMENIAN <br />MARTYRS DAY, in recognition and, remembrance of those who died <br />during the Armenian genocide; and <br />WHEREAS, it is important to remember history so that mistakes of the past are <br />not repeated in future generations; <br />NOW, THEREFORE, do we, the Commissioners of Orange County, proclaim <br />Apri124, 2000 as ARMENIAN MARTYRS DAY and commend this <br />observance to all Orange County .citizens. <br />This the 17~ day of April, 2000. <br />Moses Carey, Jr., Chair <br />Board of Commissioners <br />