MEMBERS OF CONGRESS CALL FOR DECISIVE ACTION TO END THE CYCLE OF GENOCIDE

ArmRadio.am
28.03.2007 17:56

With the Armenian National Committee of America and Genocide
Intervention Network (GI-Net) two-day anti-genocide advocacy campaign
as a backdrop, Members of Congress called for decisive action to end
the cycle of genocide during a Capitol Hill Observance.

Ten Members of Congress, including House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee
on Africa Chairman Donald Payne (D-NJ), Congressional Armenian Caucus
Co-Chair Frank Pallone (D-NJ), Armenian Genocide Resolution author Adam
Schiff (D-CA), Brad Sherman (D-CA), Jim Costa (D-CA), David Dreier
(R-CA), Rush Holt (D-NJ), Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), John Sarbanes
(D-MD), and Jean Schmidt (R-OH), joined together in urging continued
grassroots advocacy to secure proper acknowledgement of the Armenian
Genocide and targeted divestment of firms aiding and abetting the
ongoing Genocide in Sudan.