ANCA SHARES EXPERIENCE WITH CHRISTIAN ACTIVISTS

Yerkir
14.03.2006 15:33

YEREVAN (YERKIR) – As part of the Armenian National Committee of
America’s (ANCA) ongoing outreach to the broader genocide- prevention
community, Executive Director Aram Hamparian shared the Armenian
American advocacy experiences with participants in Ecumenical Advocacy
Days, an annual gathering of over a thousand Christian activists from
around the nation concerned about U.S. foreign policy in Africa and
the Middle East.

In his March 11th presentation on the Darfur Genocide, Hamparian
began by noting the profound gratitude of Armenians for the role that
Christian churches played in raising protests during the Armenian
Genocide, providing relief to its survivors, and in establishing
orphanages for the countless thousands of children left parentless
by this crime.

Stressing the special responsibility that Armenians bear as victims of
the 20th Century’s first genocide, Hamparian discussed the efforts by
the Armenian American community to bear witness to the horrific human
costs of genocide, to press for action to end the genocide in Darfur,
and, more broadly, to help generate the political will to ensure that
this crime is never again visited upon any other peoples – anywhere
in the world.

He then spent the remainder of his presentation outlining the
policy-based and practical political steps needed to build an effective
anti-genocide constituency at both the grassroots and national levels.