Anyone who read the Anti Defamation League's statement last August knows that is was certainly not an unambiguous acknowledgement of the Armenian Genocide as Janine Parker suggests (“In Darkness, dance groups collaborate to explore them of Armenian Genocide,” Weekend, March 21.) In its statement, the ADL declared that “The consequences of those actions were indeed tantamount to genocide” stopping short of an unequivocal acknowledgment of the Armenian Genocide. The Armenian Genocide was not “tantamount” to anything. It was horrific genocide. And by employing the word “consequences,” the ADL evaded the definition of genocide by refusing to acknowledge intent, a central aspect of the definition of genocide.
Sharistan Melkonian
Waltham
Boston Globe: Letter to the Editor Published on April 6, 2008
