Petition The UK government must recognise the Armenian genocide

For too long the UK government has refused to acknowledge the Armenian genocide. This is a call for the government to put the truth before our relations with Turkey and follow the example of nations such as Russia and Germany in formally acknowledging the genocide.

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http://www.nytimes.com/ref/timestopics/topics_armeniangenocide.html
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2015/apr/24/why-uk-government-so-afraid-speak-armenian-genocide
An inconvenient genocide: Who now remembers the Armenians by Geoffrey Robertson

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Date closed 3 May 2017
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