New Armenian "genocide" bill looming in US congress

Pro-Armenian lawmakers have introduced a fresh congressional resolution calling on the United States to recognize World War I-era deaths of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire as "genocide," a top US Armenian group said late Tuesday. "The Armenian genocide resolution, introduced by Congressman Robert Dold, a Republican from Illinois, and Adam Schiff, a Democrat from California, calls upon the president to recognize the Armenian genocide and encourages the US government to apply the lessons of this tragedy to prevent future crimes against humanity," the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA), said in a statement about the measure introduced in the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of the US Congress. Separately, a bipartisan group of US legislators is set to introduce another resolution urging Turkey "to fully respect the right of Christians to practice their faith in freedom, including through the rightful return of confiscated churches" to Armenians, Greeks, Syriacs and other Christian communities, the ANCA reported.