Fresh Eyes On The Hill: Ethnic Conflicts

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

http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/archiv

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS