Cyprus Parliament Resolution on the Assyrian Genocide

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Recognizing the Assyrian Genocide

Whereas, freedom of religion and respect for religious conscience are fundamental human rights; and

Whereas, more than one hundred years have passed since the mass extermination of the Assyrian, Chaldean, and Syriac Christian populations of the Ottoman Empire during the 1890s, World War I, and the years 1922--1925, carried out by Ottoman and Young Turk authorities; and

Whereas, these acts are recognized by international historical and research-based evidence as constituting genocide; and

Whereas, the Christian populations of Asia Minor, Syria, and Mesopotamia possess inalienable rights to memory, historical truth, and justice;

Now, therefore, be it resolved that the House of Representatives:

1.Condemns unequivocally the genocide committed against the Assyrian people and honors the memory of its victims;

2. Affirms its support for the restoration of historical truth and the moral vindication of the descendants of the victims; and

3. Designates August 7 as the Day of Remembrance of the Assyrian Genocide.