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Armenpress.am “Senate resolution is next” – Serj Tankian thanks US House for Armenian Genocide recognition SaveShare 10:05, 30 October, 2019 YEREVAN, OCTOBER 30, ARMENPRESS. System of a Down frontman Serj Tankian has expressed gratitude to the US House of Representatives for recognizing the Armenian Genocide. “Thank you to the House of Representatives in the US for properly characterizing US history and the Armenian genocide in the memory of my grandparents and all their relatives who perished. Genocide should never be used for political expediency or to sell a despot more helicopters. This will make more difficult for Turkey to further play the US State Dept on this issue though I’m sure they will try. It is important that there are economic sanctions tied to Turkeys illegal incursion into Syria as well. Senate resolution is next”, Tankian said on Facebook. On October 29 the US House of Representatives adopted the Armenian Genocide Resolution (H.Res.296) by a vote of 405 to 11 with 3 voting present. Edited and translated by Stepan Kocharyan https://armenpress.am/eng/news/993444.html?fbclid=IwAR0B8u4DnY7_cESsCSG9-cl15WoFdch_Kvw9UsI8tG0zCRH4Nj_Ymi60tW0

Armenpress.am Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan salutes US House recognition of Armenian Genocide SaveShare 08:36, 30 October, 2019 YEREVAN, OCTOBER 30, ARMENPRESS. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has commended the US Congress after the House of Representatives voted to recognize the Armenian Genocide. “ I salute the US Congress historic vote recognizing the Armenian Genocide. Resolution 296 is a bold step towards serving truth and historical justice that also offers comfort to millions of descendants of the Armenian Genocide survivors,” he tweeted. “My heartfelt congratulations to my Armenian compatriots all over the world and admiration to generations of Armenian-Americans, whose selfless activism and perseverance were the driving force and the inspiration behind today’s historic vote. Never again!” he added. On October 29 the US House of Representatives adopted the Armenian Genocide Resolution (H.Res.296) by a vote of 405 to 11 with 3 voting present. The Armenian Genocide Resolution (H.Res.296) establishes, as a matter of U.S. policy, 1) the rejection of Armenian Genocide denial, 2) ongoing official U.S. government recognition and remembrance of this crime, and 3) support for education about the Armenian Genocide in order to help prevent modern-day atrocities. Edited and translated by Stepan Kocharyan https://armenpress.am/eng/news/993431.html?fbclid=IwAR0ooYRBMbNtQtsiEPVUmHkr-MWYbSxKuogdTiCuLFKt6y_F-emcpRjOcUM

The Hill, DC Oct 29 2019 House votes to recognize Armenian genocide By Juliegrace Brufke The House passed a resolution on Tuesday officially recognizing and rebuking the Ottoman Empire's genocide against the Armenian people and rejecting any efforts to enlist the U.S. government in denying that the genocide took place. Proponents of the long-delayed measure, which passed in a 405-11 vote, argue that it's a necessary and overdue step in providing justice for Armenians. Three lawmakers voted present. The resolution was introduced by Rep. Adam SchiffAdam Bennett SchiffJudge schedules hearing for ex-Trump aide who refused to appear in inquiryTop Republicans say impeachment resolution is too little too lateEx-Trump official's refusal to testify escalates impeachment tensionsMORE (D-Calif.), a vice chair of the Congressional Armenian Caucus. “Many American politicians, diplomats and institutions have rightly recognized these atrocities as a genocide, including America's ambassador to the Ottoman Empire at the time, Henry Morgenthau, and Ronald Reagan," House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot EngelEliot Lance EngelFormer White House official won't testify, lawyer saysThis week: House to vote on Turkey sanctions billHouse leaders threaten contempt if former White House official defies subpoenaMORE (D-N.Y.) said on the floor ahead of the vote. "Only by shining a light on the darkest parts of our history can we learn not to repeat them and properly acknowledging what occurred is a necessary step in achieving some measure of justice for the victims,” he added. The bill emphasizes the position of the House that U.S. policy will "(1) commemorate the Armenian Genocide through official recognition and remembrance; (2) reject efforts to enlist, engage, or otherwise associate the United States Government with denial of the Armenian Genocide or any other genocide; and (3) encourage education and public understanding of the facts of the Armenian Genocide, including the United States role in the humanitarian relief effort, and the relevance of the Armenian Genocide to modern-day crimes against humanity." “Genocides, whenever and wherever they occur, cannot be ignored, whether they took place in the 20th century by the Ottoman Turks or mid-20th century by the Third Reich and in Darfur," Rep. Gus Bilirakis (R-Fla.), a co-chair of the Armenian Caucus who helped lead the efforts on the measure, said on the House floor. The resolution comes amid U.S. tensions with Turkey following Ankara's military incursion into northern Syria after the Trump administration pulled troops from the area earlier this month. Turkey does not recognize the murder of 1.5 million Armenians as a genocide. Bilirakis said it is time Congress address the injustices committed by the Ottoman Empire, saying he believes Turkey’s “current actions against our Kurdish allies is extremely concerning and we cannot stand by and let egregious human rights violations happen.” "Today we end a century of international silence that will not be another period of indifference or international ignorance to the lives lost to systematic murder,” he said. The House later passed a bill to place additional sanctions on Turkey on Tuesday in the wake of their incursion against U.S.-allied Kurdish troops. https://thehill.com/homenews/house/467975-house-votes-to-recognize-armenian-genocide

Armenpress.am Members of Parliament salute US House passage of Armenian Genocide resolution SaveShare 10:37, 30 October, 2019 YEREVAN, OCTOBER 30, ARMENPRESS. Ruling My Step bloc lawmaker Artak Manukyan highlighted the US House recognition of the Armenian Genocide, calling the move a “very important step”. He saluted the US House passage of H.Res.296 at parliamentary committee debates today in parliament. “Before starting the debates I would like to salute the adoption of the resolution in the US House of Representatives. This is a very important step, and it must contribute to the internationalization of genocide issues,” Manukyan said. Vladimir Vardanyan, MP from the same faction who also serves as Chair of the State-Legal Affairs Committee of Parliament, said the adoption is perhaps a belated but necessary step by the United States. On October 29 the US House of Representatives adopted the Armenian Genocide Resolution (H.Res.296) by a vote of 405 to 11 with 3 voting present. Edited and translated by Stepan Kocharyan https://armenpress.am/eng/news/993451.html?fbclid=IwAR3AEkJxW4z0lO4sgjopZ_m0vYO3ay_C0Ft43PDzDt_gakG2o0joau3xX7U

Finally the US used the Armenian Genocide as a stick and stuck to it!

Armenpress.am What is written in Armenian Genocide Resolution H.Res. 296? 18:09, 29 October, 2019 YEREVAN, OCTOBER 29, ARMENPRESS. The US House Rules Committee has cleared the Armenian Genocide Resolution (H.Res. 296) for vote of the full House of Representatives. For the first time in more than 30 years, the US House of Representatives is set to hold the up-or-down vote on the Armenian Genocide Resolution (H.Res.296) on Tuesday, October 29th. Armenpress presents the full text of the Resolution: “Affirming the United States record on the Armenian Genocide. Whereas the United States has a proud history of recognizing and condemning the Armenian Genocide, the killing of 1.5 million Armenians by the Ottoman Empire from 1915 to 1923, and providing relief to the survivors of the campaign of genocide against Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians, Chaldeans, Syriacs, Arameans, Maronites, and other Christians; Whereas the Honorable Henry Morgenthau, United States Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire from 1913 to 1916, organized and led protests by officials of many countries against what he described as the empire’s “campaign of race extermination”, and was instructed on July 16, 1915, by United States Secretary of State Robert Lansing that the “Department approves your procedure … to stop Armenian persecution”; Whereas President Woodrow Wilson encouraged the formation of the Near East Relief, chartered by an Act of Congress, which raised $116,000,000 (over $2,500,000,000 in 2019 dollars) between 1915 and 1930, and the Senate adopted resolutions condemning these massacres; Whereas Raphael Lemkin, who coined the term “genocide” in 1944, and who was the earliest proponent of the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide, invoked the Armenian case as a definitive example of genocide in the 20th century; Whereas, as displayed in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Adolf Hitler, on ordering his military commanders to attack Poland without provocation in 1939, dismissed objections by saying “[w]ho, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?”, setting the stage for the Holocaust; Whereas the United States has officially recognized the Armenian Genocide, through the United States Government’s May 28, 1951, written statement to the International Court of Justice regarding the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, through President Ronald Reagan’s Proclamation No. 4838 on April 22, 1981, and by House Joint Resolution 148, adopted on April 8, 1975, and House Joint Resolution 247, adopted on September 10, 1984; and Whereas the Elie Wiesel Genocide and Atrocities Prevention Act of 2018 (Public Law 115–441) establishes that atrocities prevention represents a United States national interest, and affirms that it is the policy of the United States to pursue a United States Government-wide strategy to identify, prevent, and respond to the risk of atrocities by “strengthening diplomatic response and the effective use of foreign assistance to support appropriate transitional justice measures, including criminal accountability, for past atrocities”: Now, therefore, be it Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Representatives that it is the policy of the United States to— (1) commemorate the Armenian Genocide through official recognition and remembrance; (2) reject efforts to enlist, engage, or otherwise associate the United States Government with denial of the Armenian Genocide or any other genocide; and (3) encourage education and public understanding of the facts of the Armenian Genocide, including the United States role in the humanitarian relief effort, and the relevance of the Armenian Genocide to modern-day crimes against humanity”. https://armenpress.am/eng/news/993387.html?fbclid=IwAR1fxoYXPKaklNJlPf7rN3lJg5XllFI0mu0zRWJFNZeBys7RJGBHVwKeKy4

The Turkish government apparatus is in full force denial mode as usual. Your turn is coming from within!

Finally the ADL has seen the light or had no choice because ADL was an irrelevant organization when it came to Armenian Genocide.