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    TOTTEN INVITED TO ADDRESS CONGRESSIONAL CAUCUS ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

    University of Arkansas Daily Headlines
    http://dailyheadlines.uark.edu/14824.htm
    April 16 2009

    University of Arkansas professor Samuel Totten, an internationally
    known genocide scholar, has been invited to speak to the Congressional
    Caucus on Armenian Issues on Capitol Hill.

    Totten, a professor of curriculum and instruction, will speak April
    22 at the caucus' 2009 Armenian Genocide Observance in Washington.

    This year will mark the 94th anniversary of the Armenian genocide, the
    systematic annihilation of more than 1.5 million Armenian men, women
    and children during the first genocide of the 20th century. According
    to the invitation, Totten was invited because he is "an esteemed
    scholar and champion of protecting human rights." The program
    will highlight the unprecedented U.S. diplomatic, political and
    humanitarian response to the Armenian genocide and focus on efforts
    today to properly reaffirm this crime against humanity and end the
    cycle of violence seen today in places such as Darfur, Sudan.

    Totten has written extensively about genocide and is currently writing
    a book about the genocide in Darfur and completing a book of interviews
    with survivors of the 1994 Rwandan genocide. He received a Fulbright
    Fellowship to study in Rwanda last year and helped to establish
    a genocide studies graduate program at the National University of
    Rwanda. He was also a member of a U.S. State Department-sponsored
    team that investigated atrocities in Darfur, leading then-Secretary
    of State Colin Powell to apply the term genocide to the situation.
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