24 April 2011 • 10:16 AMT
Simon Sako Simonian: Turks killed my grandpa from behind when he raised his hands towards the sky to start prayer
On the day of the 96th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, PanARMENIAN.Net presents another story of Genocide survivor. The stories were provided by the office of U.S. Congressman Adam Schiff (D-CA), who initiated the Armenian Genocide Congressional Record as an effort to parallel H. Res. 252, the Congressional resolution he introduced to recognize and commemorate the Armenian Genocide carried out by the Ottoman Empire from 1915 to 1923. Congressman Schiff is the primary sponsor of H. Res. 252, the Affirmation of the U.S. Record on the Armenian Genocide, which calls on the President and the U.S. Government to properly recognize the atrocities that occurred in the beginning of the 20th century and resulted in 1.5 million deaths, as Genocide.