Syria dismisses CBS report on ‘mass burial of Armenians’
Syria has tersely responded to a recent program aired by the
United States’ CBS TV channel about the 1915 "genocide" of
Armenians allegedly committed in Ottoman Turkey and the presence of
a mass burial of Armenians in its present-day territory.
Turkey’s Radical newspaper quoted Syrian Information Minister
Mohsin Bilal as saying that there is no mass burial of Armenians in
Syria’s Deir ez Zor region and the claims cited in the CBS program
are absolutely false.
Bilal also said CBS employees had not been authorized by the
government to shoot a report in the country’s territory. "If we had
known about this, we would not have permitted the footage."
Omer Onhon, Turkey’s Ambassador in Damascus, said that "finding a
couple of bones does not mean mass killings."
The CBS’ well-known "60 minutes" program claimed that 450,000
Armenians were slain in the Deir ez Zor region. Some Armenians
interviewed by CBS went as far as saying that Adolph Hitler was
inspired by the 1915 developments to commit mass killings of
Jews.*
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