SENATE BACKS RESOLUTION ON DEATHS OF AMERICAN INDIANS

The Associated Press State & Local Wire
April 30, 2008 Wednesday 5:16 PM GMT

The state Senate has backed a resolution comparing the deaths of
millions of American Indians to genocide seen in the Holocaust,
Armenia and Sudan.

The nonbinding measure passed in a 22-12 vote. All 12 "Nos" came from
Republicans, but three Republicans voted with Democrats to pass the
resolution brought by Sen. Suzanne Williams of Aurora.

The resolution says that many American Indian deaths were intentionally
caused by Europeans and that early American settlers often treated
Indians with "cruelty and inhumanity." It ends by urging Indians
and people of European descent to treat each other with respect and
recognize their mutual humanity.

Two Republican lawmakers said the resolution unfairly generalized
about the actions of Europeans who settled in the United States.
From: Baghdasarian