Newshub covered the failure of the New Zealand government to recognize the Armenian genocide, featuring members of the New Zealand Armenian National Committee (ANC-NZ) Maria Armoudian and Yvette Kelly, as well as an in-depth interview with the minister of Foreign Affairs Nanaia Mahuta.
Author James Robins also spills ice on Ataturk’s disputed quote, which features the genocidal dictator apparently comforting the martyred ANZACs in Gallipoli during WWI.
Minister Mahuta is invited by the journalist to look at the Armenian, Assyrian and Greek genocides through her “indigenous lens”, which she does not do.
ANC-NZ chairman Hoory Yeldizian said the Armenian-New Zealand community was disappointed with Wellington’s stance, which calms genocide denial in favor of a foreign dictatorship instead of justice.
“We are appalled by the indifference of the New Zealand government on this issue and will continue to advocate until the Ardern administration catches up with the rest of the world and the well-meaning Kiwis on this critical human rights issue.” , Yeldizian said.
As the 106th anniversary of the Armenian genocide approached, the ANC-NZ called on Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to recognize 1915 as genocide.
