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House Calendar No. 296
106TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. RES. 596
[Report No. 106–933]
Calling upon the President to ensure that the foreign policy of the United
States reflects appropriate understanding and sensitivity concerning
issues related to human rights, ethnic cleansing, and genocide docu-
mented in the United States record relating to the Armenian Genocide,
and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
SEPTEMBER 27, 2000
Mr. RADANOVICH submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the
Committee on International Relations
OCTOBER 4, 2000
Additional sponsor: Mr. BONIOR
OCTOBER 4, 2000
Reported with an amendment, referred to the House Calendar, and ordered
to be printed
[Strike out all after the resolving clause and insert the part printed in italic]
[For text of introduced resolution, see copy of resolution as introduced on September 27, 2000]
RESOLUTION
Calling upon the President to ensure that the foreign policy
of the United States reflects appropriate understanding
and sensitivity concerning issues related to human rights,
ethnic cleansing, and genocide documented in the United
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States record relating to the Armenian Genocide, and
for other purposes.
Resolved,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This resolution may be cited as the ‘‘Affirmation of
the United States Record on the Armenian Genocide Reso-
lution’’.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
The House of Representatives finds the following:
(1) The Armenian Genocide was conceived and
carried out by the Ottoman Empire from 1915 to
1923, resulting in the deportation of nearly 2,000,000
Armenians, of whom 1,500,000 men, women, and
children were killed, 500,000 survivors were expelled
from their homes, and which succeeded in the elimi-
nation of the over 2,500-year presence of Armenians
in their historic homeland.
(2) On May 24, 1915, the Allied Powers, Eng-
land, France, and Russia, jointly issued a statement
explicitly charging for the first time ever another gov-
ernment of committing ‘‘a crime against humanity’’.
(3) This joint statement stated ‘‘[i]n view of
these new crimes of Turkey against humanity and
civilization, the Allied Governments announce pub-
licly to the Sublime Porte that they will hold person-
ally responsible for these crimes all members of the
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Ottoman Government, as well as those of their agents
who are implicated in such massacres’’.
(4) The post-World War I Turkish Government
indicted the top leaders involved in the ‘‘organization
and execution’’ of the Armenian Genocide and in the
‘‘massacre and destruction of the Armenians’’.
(5) In a series of courts-martial, officials of the
Young Turk Regime were tried and convicted, as
charged, for organizing and executing massacres
against the Armenian people.
(6) The chief organizers of the Armenian Geno-
cide, Minister of War Enver, Minister of the Interior
Talaat, and Minister of the Navy Jemal were all con-
demned to death for their crimes, however, the ver-
dicts of the courts were not enforced.
(7) The Armenian Genocide and these domestic
judicial failures are documented with overwhelming
evidence in the national archives of Austria, France,
Germany, Great Britain, Russia, the United States,
the Vatican and many other countries, and this vast
body of evidence attests to the same facts, the same
events, and the same consequences.
(8) The United States National Archives and
Record Administration holds extensive and thorough
documentation on the Armenian Genocide, especially