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The student government at the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine), USA, unanimously passed a resolution “to Divest from the Republic of Turkey to End the Perpetuation of the Armenian Genocide,” reported Asbarez.

The resolution ultimately called for UC Irvine, the UC Irvine Foundation, and the University of California to divest $72.6 million dollars worth of University of California bonds and investments in the Republic of Turkey for its crimes in, and continued denial of the Armenian Genocide.

“As a descendant of the Armenian Genocide and a UC student, I was so angered and disappointed when I learned that the University of California, a public institution, invests over $70 million dollars in the Turkish government. These UC investment holdings in bonds directly issued in Turkish government ultimately, fund Turkish denialist propaganda and drive efforts of genocide denial,” said UC Irvine student Carla Kekejian. “Students’ tuition dollars -my tuition dollars- are being invested in the government that denies history and human right violations. I needed to present this resolution so that at least my student government, and my UC, was not complicit in the denial of the Armenian Genocide.”

The student governments of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and UC Berkeley unanimously passed similar resolutions during January and February of this year.

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