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Commissioner She% Taub
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Commissioner Thomas Middleton
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REQUESTING SUSPENSION
OF THE BOARD RULES FOR
IMMEDIATE CONSIDERATION
UNDER NEW BUSINESS
MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION #18077
BY: Commissioners Shelley Taub, District #12; Marcia Gershenson, District #13, Eileen KowaII, District
#6; Hugh Crawford, District #9; Thomas Middleton, District #4; and Janet Jackson, District #21
IN RE: BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS - DESIGNATION OF APRIL 24, 2018 AS ARMENIAN MARTYRS'
DAY IN OAKLAND COUNTY
To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS in 1915, the leaders of the Young Turk Party of the Ottoman Empire undertook a brutal,
genocidal campaign of hatred against the people of Armenian descent; and
WHEREAS leaders of the Armenian people, including writers, thinkers, and professionals were rounded
up, deported, and killed in Constantinople or present-day Istanbul, Turkey; and
WHEREAS the horrific events that followed have been recognized by scholars, governments, and civil
society all over the world as the Armenian Genocide of World War I, when from 1915 through 1923, the
Young Turk leadership of the Ottoman Empire orchestrated the persecution and death of approximately 1.5
million of the 2.5 million Armenians then living in Anatolia or present-day Turkey; and
WHEREAS this tragedy must be recognized as an attempted genocide of the Armenian people that inspired
the horrific acts of others; and
WHEREAS the survivors of this massacre were forced from their homeland and scattered around the world;
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WHEREAS more than 11,000 people of Armenian descent reside in Southeast Michigan and many call
Oakland County home; and
WHEREAS included among these many Armenian citizens are refugees, direct descendants and relatives
whose lives were touched by the genocide; and
WHEREAS April 24, 2018 has been designated by community and religious leaders as Armenian Martyr's
Day, a day of Memorial observance; and
WHEREAS even as we confront the inhumanity of 1915, we also are inspired by the remarkable spirit,
strength, tenacity and courage of the Armenian people and their contributions which have enriched our
communities, spurred our economy, and strengthened our democracy; and
WHEREAS the Oakland County Board of Commissioners desires to join in this observance to
commemorate the victims of these crimes against humanity and express our desire that these horrors are
never forgotten.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners does hereby
declare April 24, 2018, and each subsequent anniversary, in perpetuity, to be Armenian Martyrs' Day in
Oakland County.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Oakland County Clerk/Register of Deeds is requested to forward
copies of this adopted resolution to the Armenian Embassy in Washington, DC, St. John's Armenian Church
of Southfield and the Armenian National Committee.
Chairperson, 1 move the adoption of the foregoing resolution
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Resolution #18077
March 8, 2018
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A sufficient majority having voted in favor, the resolution was adopted.
HOMY APPROVE THIS RESOLUTION
CHIEF DEPUTY couary EXECUTIVE
ACTING PURSUANT TO MCL 45.559A (7)
STATE OF MICHIGAN)
COUNTY OF OAKLAND)
I, Lisa Brown, Clerk of the County of Oakland, do hereby certify that the forego
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Pontiac, Michigan this 8th day of March, 2018.
Lisa Brown, Oakland County
