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Letter to U.S. House Members who have co-sponsored H.Res.296
Thank you for joining Congressman Adam Schiff (D-CA), Congressman Gus Bilirakis (R-FL), and over 110 of your colleagues as a co-sponsor of Armenian Genocide legislation (H.Res.296), which calls for the U.S. to properly commemorate this crime, to distance America from genocide denial, and to make sure that the lessons of this mass murder are used to prevent future atrocities.
Please urge your colleagues to VOTE YES on a House vote on the Armenian Genocide Resolution, scheduled as as early as next week, along with legislation calling for sanctions against Turkey following the invasion of northern Syria.
As you may know, the Eisenhower Administration, in 1951, confirmed to the International Court of Justice that the Armenian Genocide constituted a clear case of genocide. President Reagan affirmed the Armenian Genocide in 1981 through Proclamation #4838 and for its part, the U.S. House of Representatives, through HJR148 in 1975 and HJR247 in 1984, has properly marked this genocidal crime.
Yet, over the better part of four decades, the U.S. government, fearful of Turkey’s threats, have resorted to evasive terminology and offensive euphemisms, compromising the truth and, with it, both our international standing on issues of human rights, religious freedom, and genocide prevention. That has to end.
No nation deserves a veto over U.S. policy – especially one as anti-American and undemocratic as today’s Turkey.
The facts are clear, as is our moral imperative: America should oppose genocide, in every instance, in every way. No exceptions. That is our legal obligation under the Genocide Convention and our ethical obligation as Americans.
American condemnation of this crime will hold great meaning for the descendants of all its victims, including millions of Armenians, Assyrians, Chaldeans, Greeks, Pontians, Syriacs, Arameans, Maronites and other Christians, many of whom found safe haven here in the United States.
Thank you for your support and for sharing with me any further actions or votes your take on this urgent matter.
Letter to U.S. House Members who have NOT co-sponsored H.Res.296
I am writing to ask you to cosponsor, publicly support, and vote YES on the Armenian Genocide Resolution (H.Res.296), which calls for the U.S. to properly commemorate this crime, to distance America from genocide denial, and to make sure that the lessons of this mass murder are used to prevent future atrocities. I am also writing to ask you to work for the immediate passage of the strongest achievable Turkey sanctions in response to Ankara’s invasion of northern Syria and atrocities against Kurds, Armenians, and other at-risk Christian, Yazidi, and Muslim civilian populations. Both pieces of legislation may come to the House floor as early as the week of October 28th.
As you may know, the Truman Administration, in 1951, confirmed to the International Court of Justice that the Armenian Genocide constituted a clear case of genocide. President Reagan affirmed the Armenian Genocide in 1981 through Proclamation #4838 and for its part, the U.S. House of Representatives, through HJR148 in 1975 and HJR247 in 1984, has properly marked this genocidal crime.
Yet, over the better part of four decades, the U.S. government, fearful of Turkey’s threats, have resorted to evasive terminology and offensive euphemisms, compromising the truth and, with it, both our international standing on issues of human rights, religious freedom, and genocide prevention. That has to end.
No nation deserves a veto over U.S. policy – especially one as anti-American and undemocratic as today’s Turkey.
The facts are clear, as is our moral imperative: America should oppose genocide, in every instance, in every way. No exceptions. That is our legal obligation under the Genocide Convention and our ethical obligation as Americans.
American condemnation of this crime will hold great meaning for the descendants of all its victims, including millions of Armenians, Assyrians, Chaldeans, Greeks, Pontians, Syriacs, Arameans, Maronites and other Christians, many of whom found safe haven here in the United States.
Letter to U.S. Senators who have co-sponsored S.Res.150
Thank you for joining Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ), Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), and over 19 of your colleagues as a co-sponsor of Armenian Genocide legislation (S.Res.150), which calls for the U.S. to properly commemorate this crime, to distance America from genocide denial, and to make sure that the lessons of this mass murder are used to prevent future atrocities.
Please call for immediate Senate consideration of S.Res.150, along with the strongest possible sanctions against Turkey, following their ongoing invasion of northern Syria.
As you may know, the Truman Administration, in 1951, confirmed to the International Court of Justice that the Armenian Genocide constituted a clear case of genocide. President Reagan affirmed the Armenian Genocide in 1981 through Proclamation #4838 and for its part, the U.S. House of Representatives, through HJR148 in 1975 and HJR247 in 1984, has properly marked this genocidal crime.
Yet, over the better part of four decades, the U.S. government, fearful of Turkey’s threats, has resorted to evasive terminology and offensive euphemisms, compromising the truth and, with it, both our international standing on issues of human rights, religious freedom, and genocide prevention. That has to end.
No nation deserves a veto over U.S. policy – especially one as anti-American and undemocratic as today’s Turkey.
The facts are clear, as is our moral imperative: America should oppose genocide, in every instance, in every way. No exceptions. That is our legal obligation under the Genocide Convention and our ethical obligation as Americans.
American condemnation of this crime will hold great meaning for the descendants of all its victims, including millions of Armenians, Assyrians, Chaldeans, Greeks, Pontians, Syriacs, Arameans, Maronites and other Christians, many of whom found safe haven here in the United States.
Thank you for your support and for sharing with me any further actions or votes your take on this matter.
Letter to U.S. Senators who have NOT co-sponsored S.Res.150
I am writing to ask you to cosponsor, publicly support, and vote YES on the Armenian Genocide resolution (S.Res.150), which calls for the U.S. to properly commemorate this crime, to distance America from genocide denial, and to make sure that the lessons of this mass murder are used to prevent future atrocities. I am also writing to ask you to work for the immediate passage of the strongest achievable Turkey sanctions in response to Ankara’s invasion of northern Syria and atrocities against Kurds, Armenians, and other at-risk Christian, Yazidi, and Muslim civilian populations.
As you may know, the Truman Administration, in 1951, confirmed to the International Court of Justice that the Armenian Genocide constituted a clear case of genocide. President Reagan affirmed the Armenian Genocide in 1981 through Proclamation #4838 and for its part, the U.S. House of Representatives, through HJR148 in 1975 and HJR247 in 1984, has properly marked this genocidal crime.
Yet, over the better part of four decades, the U.S. government, fearful of Turkey’s threats, have resorted to evasive terminology and offensive euphemisms, compromising the truth and, with it, both our international standing on issues of human rights, religious freedom, and genocide prevention. That has to end.
No nation deserves a veto over U.S. policy – especially one as anti-American and undemocratic as today’s Turkey.
The facts are clear, as is our moral imperative: America should oppose genocide, in every instance, in every way. No exceptions. That is our legal obligation under the Genocide Convention and our ethical obligation as Americans.
American condemnation of this crime will hold great meaning for the descendants of all its victims, including millions of Armenians, Assyrians, Chaldeans, Greeks, Pontians, Syriacs, Arameans, Maronites and other Christians, many of whom found safe haven here in the United States.
My family and I look forward to hearing about your co-sponsorship of this legislation and about any further actions or votes your take on this matter.
Letter to President Trump and Vice-President Pence
I am writing, amid Ankara’s attack on our Kurdish allies and Christian civilians in Syria, to urge you to end U.S. complicity in Turkey’s denial of the Armenian Genocide by properly referencing the Armenian Genocide as ‘genocide’. The facts of the Armenian Genocide are well known to all, universally affirmed by genocide scholars, and thoroughly documented in our own American archives.
America must only have a single moral standard on issues of genocide – total opposition to this crime and zero-tolerance policy for denial. Turkey has no right to veto American policy on issues of genocide, and U.S. leaders – speaking in the name of the American people – have no right to let foreign powers bully us into silence on matters of human rights.
I encourage you to fully and formally reject Turkey’s gag rule and embrace an honest American remembrance of the Armenian Genocide, support S.Res.150 and H.Res.296, and commit the United States, as a policy priority, to a truthful and just international resolution of this still unpunished crime.
In making this request, I am joined by all our allies in America’s genocide-prevention community and our friends in the Armenian, Greek, Assyrian/Chaldeans/Syriac and other Christian targeted by Turkey’s genocidal campaign. Thank you for considering my views on this matter. I will be following the news to learn of your position on the Armenian Genocide.