«The Pontian Genocide was a methodically designed plan of persecution, torture, murder, destruction, looting and deportation carried out with unimaginable cynicism“, Said o First Deputy Speaker of Parliament Nikita Kaklamanis at the special sitting held in plenary on Day of Remembrance of the Genocide of the Greeks of Pontus.
A century and three years ago, one of the most precious cells of Hellenism ended up being violently uprooted and then experiencing exile wherever it went, said Nikitas Kaklamanis, opening the special discussion, emphasizing that we are separated 103 years, from one of the most heinous mass crimes against humanity, the Genocide of Pontian Hellenism, “a sweeping and sickly inspiration first applied by the neo-Turks and then completed by Kemal».
The result of this atrocity was an irreparable humanitarian catastrophe which measured about 353,000 losses of human souls“An inconceivable number of victims who were sentenced either to die martyrs or to live a horrible and ruined life“, As said the first vice-president of the Parliament, who pointed out that the losses that were included in a wider context of the destruction of the Greek element of the East were also incalculable.
«However, to date, tThe official Turkish state continues to deny the Genocide and classifies it with abysmal audacity in the category of collateral losses of a previous era. This of course does not impress anyone“Turkey has always maintained a consistent and consistent line of denial of its crimes, just as in the respective massacres and persecutions of Asia Minor, Armenians and, more recently, Cypriots,” said Nikitas Kaklamanis, who observed that “in the same vein, Turkey is still moving with threats, but also with the Trojan Horse of the migration waves, which it sends to our borders».
These are the old known tricks of our neighbors, which, as it turned out in recent years, are now falling spectacularly into the void thanks to the attitude of the Greek State, said Mr. Kaklamanis, who did not fail to note that in the “chessboard” of foreign policy from time to time appeals to the international community have met various reactions. “On the positive side we can recognize the recognition of the Genocide by Armenia, Cyprus, Sweden, nine American states, parts of Canada and some federal units of Russia as well as the Netherlands, Austria, South Australia and New South Wales. “Unfortunately, in the opposite direction of this recognition is the Plenary Session of our European Parliament when years ago the attempt to recognize the Genocide was spectacularly voted against”, he stated and noted that in this context, which is obviously based on other selfish motives, “is time to intensify our effort to recognize the Genocide of Pontian Hellenism».
«Of course it is clear and self-evident that we can not completely control the prevailing power relations in a global equation of interests we can, however, take advantage of developments by promoting our own rights. By drawing up a single and solid proposal for the recognition of the Genocide, but also of the total losses of Hellenism, I believe that at this stage we can demand the restoration of the historical truth. Because if we do not fight them, no one will do it for us “, said Nikitas Kaklamanis, adding that today more than ever, unity is necessary in the face of this common just demand,” a living and fertile memory and a united one are necessary stubbornness for a struggle that will bring justice to our ancestors».
So let today be not just an anniversary, but an occasion for unifying action, noted and underlined that “now is the time for a collective national effort with prudence, understanding and consensus, because together we must stand up and proud in front of our history. We owe it to the generations that witnessed. We owe it to the homelands that we did not forget, but also to the future of this place».
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