HistoryofTruth.com - Armenian Allegations

The California State Assembly Education Committee’s recent passage of a piece of legislation that calls on the California State Curriculum Commission to consider the inclusion of an oral history component in its already mandatory genocide education curriculum has prompted the Association for Fighting Groundless Claims of Genocide (ASIMED) to launch an e-mail campaign against the legislation, which will lead to terming the World War I killings of Anatolian Armenians as genocide.

The influential US-based Armenian diaspora organization, the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA), last week announced that the legislation, authored by Republican California Senator Mark Wyland and known as SB 234, the Genocide Awareness Act. Both the existing curriculum and SB 234 make explicit reference to the allegations of Armenian genocide in addition to several other genocides of the 20th century. The California State Senate unanimously passed the bill on June 3 this year. Having cleared the CA State Assembly Education Committee, SB 234 now moves to the CA State Assembly Appropriations Committee for consideration, ANCA noted on Friday.

Assistant Professor Savas Egilmez of the Erzurum-based Atat”rk University, who heads ASIMED, has warned about the probable implications of the bill, announcing that ASIMED has been preparing to launch an e-mail campaign protesting the bill, the Cihan news agency reported.

“This bill will cause the equalizing of the 1915 events with the Holocaust and the Cambodian and Rwandan genocides,” Egilmez was quoted as saying, referring to the killings of Anatolian Armenians during the early 20th century as “the 1915 events.”

If the legislation is adopted, Turkish-American children attending schools in California will also be exposed to the Armenian lobby’s campaigns, Egilmez said. “Young people from other ethnic origins will label Turks as barbarians and will have prejudice and enmity against Turks. Recognition of this legislation in a state will trigger similar legislation in other states or at least it will encourage the diaspora on this issue. That’s why both citizens of the Turkish Republic and Turks living in the United States should lend support to the protest campaign against this legislation,” he said, adding that he would guide people who would like to join the protest campaign if they send their e-mails to  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .