In Wednesday's Letters to the editor, readers react to a smorgasbord of stories -- from coverage of private schools' efforts to raise money during the recession, to fishing restrictions off the California coast, to President Barack Obama's gesture of friendship to the Iranian people (and its rejection by supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei).

Harmik Gharibi, of Glendale, reacts to this editorial about Obama's campaign promises, singling out the president's vow to acknowledge that the slaughter of Armenians by Turkey in 1915 was a genocide:

After 94 years, there seems to be a gleam of hope for the recognition of the Armenian genocide.

I sincerely ask President Obama to live up to his campaign promise by making an official presidential declaration that the mass killings of Armenians by the Ottoman Turks constituted nothing less than genocide.

Let's hope that at least for once, principle will prevail over politics. Had the Armenian genocide been recognized -- and not been put on the back burner for decades -- maybe the world would not have had to witness the likes of it in Cambodia, Bosnia, Rwanda and, today, in Darfur.

Photo: Remembering the killings in Armenia, Sacramento, 2005.  Credit: AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli/FILE.