ARMENIAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE OF AUSTRALIA
MEDIA RELEASE: ANC of Australia Opposes Sending of Turkish Troops to Lebanon
September
20th, 2006
Representatives of
Armenian National Committee of Australia (ANC of Australia) recently met
with Lebanon's Consul General in Sydney, His Excellency Mazen Kabbara,
to discuss the Australian-Armenian community's anxiety and concern in
regard to the participation of Turkish troops in the UN peacekeeping
forces in Lebanon.
Mr Panos Manjian, Mr Vicken Kalloghlian and Mr Varant Meguerditchian,
members of the ANC of Australia handed Mr. Kabbara a letter opposing the
inclusion of the Turkish forces in the UN peacekeeping mission between
Lebanon and Israel.
The
ANC of Australia representatives emphasised to the Consul General, that
Turkey was unfit to take part in such a peace keeping mission because of
its history human rights violations, as perpetrators of the Armenian
Genocide, illegal occupiers of Northern Cyprus and brutal former
colonisers of Lebanon.
During the colonisation of Lebanon, Turkey perpetrated massacres and
mass hangings in the Martyrs Square in downtown Beirut and implemented a
deliberate policy of starvation of the Christian population of Mount
Lebanon.
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