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FRESH EYES ON THE HILL: ETHNIC CONFLICTS
Laura Isensee
Dallas Morning News
http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/archiv es/2009/03/fresh-eyes-on-the-hill.html
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
Laura Isensee
Dallas Morning News
http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/archiv es/2009/03/fresh-eyes-on-the-hill.html
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