US Congressmen initiate bipartisan genocide prevention resolution
US Representatives David Trott (R-MI) and Adam Schiff (D-CA) introduced a bipartisan antigenocide resolution calling on the United States to apply the lessons of the Armenian Genocide in seeking to prevent modern day atrocities across the Middle East, the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) reported.
This genocide prevention measure stresses that “proper commemoration and consistent condemnation of the Armenian Genocide will strengthen our international standing in preventing modern day genocides.”
“The United States, in seeking to prevent war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide against Christians, Yezidis, Muslims, Kurds, and other vulnerable religious and ethnic groups in the Middle East, should draw upon relevant lessons of the United States Government, civil society, and humanitarian response to the Armenian Genocide, Seyfo, and the broader genocidal campaign by the Ottoman Empire against Armenians, Assyrians, Chaldeans, Syriacs, Greeks, Pontians and other Christians upon their biblical era homelands,” the resolution says. ANCA Executive Director Aram Hamparian thanked the Congressmen for the initiative.
