Genocide

Region Needs Peacekeeping Forces, Helicopters to Help End the Genocide

May 22, 2008 -- Senator Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) today sent a letter to President Bush urging him to take definitive action in Darfur. Senator Specter joined with 29 colleagues in the U.S. Senate in appealing to the President to “use all the power of the White House to ensure that (his) legacy includes definitive action in Darfur.”

Rebel vehicles in Sudan: Photo by Andrew Heavens (CC)    » read more »

January 27, 2008 -- "On the third International Day of Commemoration, we remember and mourn the victims of the Holocaust.    » read more »

27 January 2008 -- At former Nazi death camps and many other places worldwide - in Europe, Israel, the United States and the United Nations, among others - people remembered victims of the Holocaust on Sunday.    » read more »

December 5, 2007 -- [WASHINGTON, D.C.] – The U.S. House of Representatives passed Senator Dick Durbin’s (D-IL) Genocide Accountability Act today, sending the legislation, which closes the legal loophole that currently prevents the Justice Department from prosecuting individuals found in the United States who have participated in genocide in other countries, to the President for signature. The bill will be the first piece of legislation produced by the new Senate Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law, which Durbin chairs, to become law.    » read more »

October 17, 2007 -- (Washington D.C.)- Congressman John P. Murtha, Chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, held a press conference today with Congressman Alcee Hastings (D-FL), Congressman John Tanner (D-TN), Congressman Robert Wexler (D-FL), and Congressman Stephen Cohen (D-TN) to urge the House Leadership to not bring the Armenian Genocide Resolution to the House Floor for a vote.

The following are excerpts from his remarks:    » read more »

16 October 2007 -- Democrats and Republicans are trading criticisms over a resolution calling the mass killings in the early 20th century of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire a genocide. While Democratic leaders say they still intend to bring the measure to a vote in the House of Representatives in coming weeks, they acknowledge that reaction in Turkey to a recent House committee vote approving the measure has had an impact on lawmakers.    » read more »

11 October 2007 -- The speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, says a resolution approved by a House committee this week characterizing the World War I-era killings of tens of thousands of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as genocide will go to a vote in the House. President Bush wants the resolution stopped, saying it will harm relations with Turkey and U.S. interests in the region.

Speaking a day after the 27 to 21 vote in the foreign affairs committee approving the resolution, Pelosi reaffirmed her determination to see the measure come to a vote in the House.    » read more »