HCONRES 148
105th Congress
House
International Affairs
Anniversaries
Armenians
Christianity
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commemorations
Congress
Congressional tributes
Crime and Law Enforcement
Crimes against humanity
Europe
Genocide
Greek Americans
History
Middle East and North Africa
Religion
Religious liberty
Turkey
Victims of crimes
Commemorating the 75th anniversary of the burning of Smyrna and honoring the memory of its civilian victims, and for other purposes.
Introduced: September 9, 1997
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Sep 9, 1997
Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
Sep 9, 1997
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1706)
Sep 9, 1997
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Joins the Hellenic and the Armenian American communities in honoring the memory of the victims of Smyrna in 1922 and the millions of Orthodox Christians who perished in the genocidal campaign in Asia Minor from 1894 to 1923.
Calls for: (1) the United States to encourage the Republic of Turkey to take all appropriate steps to acknowledge these crimes against humanity and commemorate the victims at Smyrna; and (2) the restoration and preservation of an accurate history of such events so that such atrocities may never be repeated.
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Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
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