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    CQ TODAY ONLINE NEWS

    Aug. 20, 2008 - 1:25 p.m.

    D.C. Makes a Statement on Armenian Genocide

    By Colby Itkowitz, CQ Staff


    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 on Oct. 10, 2007, but
    was never sent to the floor.

    The museum is set to open in 2011.

    http://www.cq.com/document/display.do?match Id=3D64026753


    Source: CQ Today Online News
    Round-the-clock coverage of news from Capitol Hill.
    (c) 2008 Congressional Quarterly Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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