I don't think that the government should be in the business of deciding what is a genocide and what isn't. If the Armenian atrocities constituted genocide, then they constituted genocide--there is no need for the government to place its official stamp of approval on using this label. I would rather allow the people to decide for themselves what is or is not a genocide, instead of having the government tell them.
This is a resolution. It does not make recognition of the Armenian Genocide official Atlasian statute. It is also a move taken by Canada and many countries in Europe; the purpose is to put pressure on Turkey so that it will acknowledge the atrocities it committed against the Armenian people.
