New Resolution on Armenian Genocide Submitted to U.S. Senate

PanARMENIAN.Net - Senator John Ensign (R-NV) and Senate Minority Whip Richard Durbin (D-IL), both staunch supporters of Armenian issues, today introduced a resolution in the U.S. Senate that would reaffirm the U.S. historical record on the Armenian Genocide. "During this 90th commemorative year of the Armenian Genocide, I am proud to once again introduce legislation in the U.S. Senate," said Ensign. "It is time for the United States, as a world leader, to once and for all reaffirm the incontestable facts of history witnessed and reported by U.S. Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire Henry Morgenthau and acknowledged by other leading Americans including President Ronald Reagan." Durbin, the second most powerful democrat in the Senate, added, "The Armenian Genocide was the Twentieth Century's first genocide, a vicious, organized crime against humanity that included murder, deportation, torture, and slave labor. U.S. clarity on this historical fact is of utmost importance and long past due." "We commend the leadership of Senators Ensign and Durbin for this Senate initiative to reaffirm the incontestable fact of the Armenian Genocide," said Assembly Board of Trustees Chairman Hirair Hovnanian. "The U.S.

National Archives contain thousands of pages documenting the Armenian Genocide as this crime against humanity was being committed. As such, Congress has an important opportunity in this 90th commemorative year to squarely combat Turkey's ongoing campaign of denial by recognizing the cataclysmic events of 1915."