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ATAA to Host Screening of Documentary â€œThe Armenian Revoltâ€

24 July 2010 01:21 (UTC +04:00)

Baku â€“ APA. To date, the United States legislature has considered 11 legislative initiatives opining on the history of the late Ottoman Empire, five that failed because they characterized the events of 1915 as genocide, and six that passed because they did not, APA reports quoting turkishny.com web-page.
The 12th initiative, H.Res. 252, which narrowly passed the House Foreign Affairs Committee 23-22 on March 4, 2010, looks to be the sixth to fail. Regardless, Turkish Americans are facing their ancient history, and so should Armenians Americans, as there are always two sides of a story.
Accordingly, on Wednesday, July 28, 2010, the ATAA Capital Forum program will host a screening of the film, "The Armenian Revolt", regarding the armed Armenian Independence Movement (1880-1919) which sought to create a politically, ethnically, and religiously homogenous Armenian state in the eastern region of the Ottoman Empire, and failed. Legal expert, Bruce Fein, will provide opening remarks, Turkishny.com reports quoting Ataa.org.
The producer of the film, Marty Callaghan, is a war documentarian, who recently produced, "Blood, Sand and Oil" regarding WWI in the Middle East and Allied use of micronationalism from the Caucasus to the Arabian Peninsula to destroy the multi-ethnic, multi-cultural Ottoman Empire, and replace it with states servile to western empires. "The Armenian Revolt", which appeared on Bloomington PBS, takes a look at WWI designs for the Caucasus.
The ATAA will continue to host experts on the Ottoman Armenian matter with a view toward reconciliation based on truth.