A US District Court has dismissed a case initiated at the prompting of the Assembly of Turkish American Associations (ATAA) that would have compelled the inclusion of alleged Armenian genocide denial materials in the Massachusetts education curriculum, the Armenian media reported.
US District Court Chief Judge Mark Wolf on Wednesday ruled in favor of the Massachusetts Department of Education, allowing it to continue teaching “the facts of the Armenian genocide, and other crimes against humanity, in public schools across the Commonwealth as constitutionally protected government speech,” the Armenian Assembly of America said. “The Armenian Assembly appreciates the court’s ruling in this matter. It sends a clear message to Turkey and its revisionist allies that history cannot be rewritten to further Ankara’s state-sponsored denial campaign,” Assembly Board of Trustees Chairperson Hirair Hovnanian said. “The court’s ruling preserves the teaching of accurate history, which is part of the official”Massachusetts Guide to Choosing and Using Curricular Materials on Genocide and Human Rights,’ prepared in 1999.
In 2005 the ATAA filed the suit against the Department of Education arguing that the commonwealth violated the plaintiffs’ First Amendment rights by removing materials from the curriculum that deny the events of 1915,“the Public Radio of Armenia reported Thursday on its Web site.
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