A STORY ENTITLED "D.C. MAKES A STATEMENT ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE" WAS POSTED IN AN AMERICAN QUARTERLY
Noyan Tapan
Aug 25, 2008
WASHINGTON, AUGUST 25, ARMENIANS TODAY. The Armenian Genocide
Museum of America would like to call our attention to a story
entitled "D.C. Makes a Statement on Armenian Genocide" posted on
Congressional Quarterly. The Museum notes that theQuarterly is a
non-partisan authoritative source of information. Below we present
the above-mentioned story.
"Late last year, lawmakers balked under pressure from the Turkish
government, which warned against the United States officially declaring
a century-old massacre of Armenians as genocide. Apparently, the
District of Columbia Board of Zoning Adjustment doesn’t scare that
easily.
The city agency has given its stamp of approval to convert the former
Federal-American National Bank into the Armenian Genocide Museum of
America, according to public records.
"Visitors to the museum will come to understand the Armenian Genocide
as the prototype for modern crimes against humanity, including the
Holocaust, Cambodia, Rwanda and Darfur," a Web site for the museum
says.
The debate over whether to declare the deaths of 1.5 million
Armenians in the former Ottoman Empire nearly a century ago heated
up in Congress when Bush administration officials warned that such
a move would threaten U.S. relations with Turkey. The resolution
(H Res 106) was approved in the House Foreign Affairs Committee,
but was never sent to the floor."