FRESH EYES ON THE HILL: ETHNIC CONFLICTS
Laura Isensee
Dallas Morning News
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March 17 2009
TX
On Capitol Hill, members of Congress pick and choose to support lots of
things: bills, budgets, you name it. Even ethnic conflicts, it seems.
Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson spoke at Bosnian Women’s Day last week–a
minor deal in the grand scheme of things on the Hill.
Still, it caught my attention.
About two weeks ago, the Dallas Democrat opposed a resolution on
another ethnic conflict. The measure urged the U.S. to recognize the
1915 conflict between Armenia and Turkey as "genocide" and Johnson
wrote a letter against it to all her colleagues in the House.
I was confused so I asked the Congresswoman’s office about this. Her
answer: The two conflicts have little in common.
"The Bosnian genocide was proven in a court of law. The Armenian
allegation has never been prosecuted or affirmed by a neutral
tribunal," her staff wrote in an email.
I wonder what the Armenians think about that.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
