{"id":21092,"date":"2023-04-19T11:40:36","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T11:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ancnews.info\/?p=21092"},"modified":"2023-04-19T11:40:40","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T11:40:40","slug":"armenian-genocide-education-act-set-for-introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ancnews.info\/?p=21092","title":{"rendered":"Armenian Genocide Education Act Set for Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>ANCA-Backed Bipartisan Measure Seeks $10 Million to Fund Armenian Genocide Education<br><br><br><\/strong>The Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) welcomed news that Representatives Anna Eshoo (D-CA), David Valadao (R-CA), Ted Lieu (D-CA), and Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) are re-introducing the Armenian Genocide Education Act, a bipartisan measure \u2013 building upon official U.S. Congressional and Presidential recognition of this crime \u2013 to fund Library of Congress educational programs about the history, lessons, consequences, and ongoing costs of the Armenian Genocide.<br><br>This landmark legislation \u2013 strongly supported by the ANCA \u2013 seeks to provide $10 million in funding over five years for the Library of Congress to educate Americans about Ottoman Turkey\u2019s systematic and deliberate state-sponsored mass murder, national dispossession, cultural erasure, and exile of millions of Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians, Chaldeans, Syriacs, Arameans, Maronites, and other Christians, between 1915 and 1923.<br><br>\u201cWith Azerbaijan, backed by Turkey, openly seeking to complete the Armenian Genocide, it\u2019s more urgent than ever for American school children to learn the lessons of this still unpunished \u2013 still ongoing &#8211; crime against all humanity,\u201d said ANCA Executive Director Aram Hamparian. \u201cChief among these lessons is that we \u2013 as Americans \u2013 must never, for reasons of political convenience or practical expediency, turn a blind eye to state-driven genocidal campaigns to eradicate indigenous populations or other at-risk groups, anywhere in the world.\u201d<br><br>Building upon the 2019 passage of H.Res.296 and S.Res.150 \u2013 which specifically rejected any official U.S. association with Armenian Genocide denial \u2013 the Armenian Genocide Education Act seeks to counter discourse and propaganda that claims that Ottoman Turkey\u2019s systematic and deliberate state-sponsored mass murder, national dispossession, cultural erasure, and exile of millions of Christians between 1915 and 1923 did not take place. A similar measure was introduced in the last session of Congress.<br><br>Members of Congress can join as original cosponsors of the measure in the days leading up to its introduction, timed around April 24th, the international day of justice for the Armenian Genocide.<br><br>To learn more about this measure, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/anca.org\/EducationBrief\">anca.org\/EducationBrief<\/a>.<br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANCA-Backed Bipartisan Measure Seeks $10 Million to Fund Armenian Genocide Education The Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) welcomed news that Representatives Anna Eshoo (D-CA), David Valadao (R-CA), Ted Lieu (D-CA), and Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) are re-introducing the Armenian Genocide Education Act, a bipartisan measure \u2013 building upon official U.S. Congressional and Presidential recognition of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21093,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[115],"tags":[133,126,382,480],"class_list":["post-21092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-anc-international","tag-anca","tag-382","tag-480"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - 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