Our Mission
The Stain of Denial, as the event is titled, aims at educating the greater campus community about the Armenian Genocide and the ensuing
denial campaign by the government of Turkey. The ASAs have partnered with various on-campus organizations to protest the continuous
repression of justice. In honor of the new year, the participating schools in All-ASA will engage their individual student bodies in demonstrating the effects of injustice and denial, generations after the initial crime is committed.
Why You Should Care
Classified as the first genocide of the 20th century, the Armenian
Genocide claimed the lives of 1.5 million people and forced the
dispersion of Armenians throughout the world. The Republic of Turkey,
descendants of the Ottoman Empire, have led a denial campaign in an
attempt to stave off responsibility, setting a cyclical precedent for
the repression of justice. The United States, under political pressure
from Turkey, has refused to acknowledge the events by its rightful
classification. As Armenian-Americans, we believe that politics and
humanity need to be held in separate realms. Genocide is a punishable
crime and ignorance on the part of other countries further encourages
the tactics of deniers.
