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  • Louisiana Senate Condemns Anti-Armenian Atrocities In Azerbaijan

    LOUISIANA SENATE CONDEMNS ANTI-ARMENIAN ATROCITIES IN AZERBAIJAN

    20:45 29.05.2014

    The Louisiana State Senate unanimously adopted a resolution, yesterday,
    condemning Azerbaijani pogroms against its Armenian citizens and
    called on the U.S. government to press Baku to bring the perpetrators
    to justice, reported the Armenian National Committee of America -
    Eastern Region (ANCA-ER).

    The measure was introduced by Senator Edwin Murray, who just last
    year spearheaded State Senate recognition of the Nagorno Karabakh
    Republic's independence and urged US support the self-determination
    and democratic independence of this developing democratic state.

    This year's resolution, Senate Resolution 166, expresses "sympathy
    in support of the families of victims of massacres and atrocities
    perpetrated against the Armenian people in Azerbaijan." The measure
    goes on to call on the "President of the United States and the Congress
    exert all available influence on the government of Azerbaijan to
    cease the falsification of the historical facts and bring those in
    Azerbaijan who are responsible for the Armenian massacres."

    Vazken Kaltakdjian, Louisiana Chairman of the Armenian Council of
    America, worked closely with Senator Murray, Secretary of the Senate
    Glenn Koepp, Attorney John Seago and the broader Louisiana Armenian
    American community in moving this issue forward.

    The U.S. has served as safe haven to tens of thousands of
    Armenian-Americans who are refugees of pogroms against Armenians
    in Sumgait (1988), Kirovabad (1988), and Baku (1990), and the
    ethnic-cleansing of the Armenian population of Azerbaijan. These
    pogroms set the stage for two decades of aggression by Azerbaijan,
    during which it launched and lost a war against Nagorno Karabakh, and
    later used its oil wealth to buy a massive military arsenal that its
    leaders, to this day, vow to use to renew their attempts to conquer
    a Christian people that have lived on these lands for thousands of
    years and, after great challenges, has flourished in freedom from
    Soviet oppression for more than 20 years.

    http://www.armradio.am/en/2014/05/29/louisiana-senate-condemns-anti-armenian-atrocities-in-azerbaijan/

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