Armenian lobbying in US mounts up prior to April 24

TDN
Wednesday, April 20, 2005

DIPLOMACY

Armenian Diaspora places an advertisement in a US magazine allegorizing
alleged Armenian genocide to Sudan’s conflict in the Darfur region

ANKARA – Turkish Daily News

The influential Armenian diaspora in the United States has taken
another step for recognition of an alleged genocide via a full-page
advertisement in a U.S. news magazine, as April 24, the 90th
anniversary of the alleged genocide, approaches.

The Armenian lobby has stepped up a campaign for the international
recognition of the alleged genocide at the hands of the late Ottoman
Empire at the beginning of the last century, placing a full-page
advertisement in the latest issue of the U.S. News and World Report
magazine accompanied by a photograph of a person who was alleged to
have escaped the genocide. 

The advertisement, prepared by the International Institute for Genocide
and Human Rights Studies, a division of the Zoryan Institute of Canada,
was sponsored by an Armenian whose ancestors had escaped the alleged
genocide and who doesn’t want to be identified, the Anatolia news
agency reported according to information from the Zoryan Institute.

Referring to the conflict in Darfur, Sudan, which is described
by the U.S. Congress as amounting to genocide committed by the
Sudanese government and its militia allies against non-Arab groups,
the advertisement, by use of the phrase “Déjà vu?” implies
that a new genocide is being experienced in Darfur today. 

According to Ross Vartian, a spokesman for the Armenian diaspora in
the United States and executive chairman of the Armenian Assembly of
America, a resolution upholding Armenian allegations is to be presented
today to the U.S. Congress. A similar resolution was pushed forward
in the House of Representatives in 2000 but was withdrawn after the
Bill Clinton administration intervened.

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