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SD SENATE STEERS SOUTH DAKOTA CLEAR OF GENOCIDE ARGUMENT
Rapid City Journal
March 4 2015
Led by comments from Sen. Corey Brown, R-Gettysburg, state senators
voted 30-4 Tuesday to table -- that is, kill without further debate --
a resolution recognizing the killings 100 years ago in Anatolia.
Brown said it's the wrong time to bring up the matter as the United
States and other nations look for Turkey's help in battling ISIS in
Iraq and neighboring lands.
The resolution, HCR 1009, came out of the House where it was approved
57-17. The resolution's prime sponsor is Rep. Steve Hickey, R-Sioux
Falls. The resolution states that 1.5 million people of Armenian
heritage and hundreds of thousands of Greek and Assyrian heritage
were killed by the Ottoman Turks a century ago.
The resolution also stated "that the Legislature deplores the
persistent, ongoing efforts by any person, in this country or
abroad, to deny the historical fact of the Armenian Genocide" and
"the Legislature urges the Republic of Turkey to acknowledge the
facts of the Armenian Genocide and to work toward a just resolution".
In other international news from the Legislature, the House of
Representatives voted 67-0 Tuesday for a resolution denouncing and
condemning anti-Semitism in various European and Middle Eastern
nations and invited French Jews and Jewish people generally to move
to South Dakota. SCR 8, whose prime sponsor is Sen. Dan Lederman,
R-Dakota Dunes, won Senate approval 34-0 last week.
http://rapidcityjournal.com/blog/pierre-review/sd-senate-steers-south-dakota-clear-of-genocide-argument/article_abf589b8-c27d-11e4-afc1-736f11506464.html
From: Baghdasarian
Rapid City Journal
March 4 2015
Led by comments from Sen. Corey Brown, R-Gettysburg, state senators
voted 30-4 Tuesday to table -- that is, kill without further debate --
a resolution recognizing the killings 100 years ago in Anatolia.
Brown said it's the wrong time to bring up the matter as the United
States and other nations look for Turkey's help in battling ISIS in
Iraq and neighboring lands.
The resolution, HCR 1009, came out of the House where it was approved
57-17. The resolution's prime sponsor is Rep. Steve Hickey, R-Sioux
Falls. The resolution states that 1.5 million people of Armenian
heritage and hundreds of thousands of Greek and Assyrian heritage
were killed by the Ottoman Turks a century ago.
The resolution also stated "that the Legislature deplores the
persistent, ongoing efforts by any person, in this country or
abroad, to deny the historical fact of the Armenian Genocide" and
"the Legislature urges the Republic of Turkey to acknowledge the
facts of the Armenian Genocide and to work toward a just resolution".
In other international news from the Legislature, the House of
Representatives voted 67-0 Tuesday for a resolution denouncing and
condemning anti-Semitism in various European and Middle Eastern
nations and invited French Jews and Jewish people generally to move
to South Dakota. SCR 8, whose prime sponsor is Sen. Dan Lederman,
R-Dakota Dunes, won Senate approval 34-0 last week.
http://rapidcityjournal.com/blog/pierre-review/sd-senate-steers-south-dakota-clear-of-genocide-argument/article_abf589b8-c27d-11e4-afc1-736f11506464.html
From: Baghdasarian