The article by Elizabeth Llorente in North Jersey.com website brings opinions of U.S. Armenians on recent approval of Genocide Resolution by the congressional committee.

“My grandmother always wore black because of the genocide. My father’s sister found out the Turks were on their way to where she was and she committed suicide. What do I think will happen next? Obama is saying ‘no’,” the source quotes Agnes Kazanjian.

The Reverend Berj Gulleyan from Armenian Presbyterian Church in Paramus says that nearly all of his parishioners “were touched, in one way or another, by the mass killings.”

“We need to be the voice of the voiceless,” Gulleyan said, supporting the Genocide recognition internationally. “If the United States can’t be that, we’ve lost something very special that this country is known and respected for.”

The author mentions that Turks keep on insisting that no genocide was perpetrated and killings “were casualties of a civil conflict as the Ottoman Empire collapsed.”
Llorente quotes Faruk Acar — former vice president of the Federation of Turkish American Associations as saying, “The resolution is ridiculous, it’s purely political. U.S. congressmen and senators make decisions on their political future, they’re selfish. The Turkish people are very proud of our history.”

The author also quotes Senator Bob Menendez who claims that actions, not the words are necessary to avoid “another Holocaust, another Armenian genocide, another Rwanda or Darfur.”