Assyrian Organizations Send Open Letter to U.S. Presidential Candidates - AINA

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The open letter:

April 11, 2016

To Hillary Clinton, Ted Cruz, John Kasich, Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump:

Daily reports from the Middle East and other corners of the world document a campaign of terror against Christians. Assyrians and others are being tortured, kidnapped, raped and murdered by radical terrorist organizations such as ISIS. We have seen this terror in Paris, Brussels, and other cities around the world, committed in the name of Islam by radical Islamic organizations. For Assyrians it feels like 1915 all over again.

As the centerpiece of a larger plan of ethnic and religious cleansing waged from 1915-1924, the Turkish state and its Kurdish tribes exterminated millions of Armenians, Greeks and Assyrians. One hundred years have passed since the era of World War I when no one heard the cries of our ancestors, the Assyrian people, in their suffering in that genocide that is known as the Armenian Genocide.

26 countries have recognized the Armenian Genocide. 12 Countries, governments and institutions have recognized the Assyrian genocide. Turkey, however, continues to deny the genocide.

Secretary of State John F. Kerry has declared that the Islamic State is currently committing acts of genocide against Christians, Yazidis and other minorities in Iraq and Syria. As President of the United States, would you do everything in your power to end these atrocities, bring the perpetrators to justice, and aid the survivors?

As President of the United States, would you acknowledge the Ottoman Genocide against Christians -- Assyrians, Armenians and Greeks -- during World War I and support reparations for the victims?

It is our hope that as President you would aid the victims of genocide, both past and present, and bring relief to their suffering.

Most respectfully,

   (Edit: signatories)

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