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H.Res. 220

ResolutionFederalHouseIn Committee
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding past genocides, and for other purposes.
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Committee
Latest Action · March 22, 2017
Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Congress
115th (2017–2019)
Introduced
March 22, 2017
Sponsor
Rep. David TrottR
Cosponsors (125)
91D 34R
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Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the United States, in seeking to prevent war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide against religious and ethnic groups in the Middle East, should draw upon relevant lessons of the U.S. government, civil society, and humanitarian response to the Armenian Genocide, Seyfo, and the broader genocidal campaign by the Ottoman Empire.

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