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    SENATE BACKS RESOLUTION ON DEATHS OF AMERICAN INDIANS

    The Associated Press State & Local Wire
    April 30, 2008 Wednesday 5:16 PM GMT

    The state Senate has backed a resolution comparing the deaths of
    millions of American Indians to genocide seen in the Holocaust,
    Armenia and Sudan.

    The nonbinding measure passed in a 22-12 vote. All 12 "Nos" came from
    Republicans, but three Republicans voted with Democrats to pass the
    resolution brought by Sen. Suzanne Williams of Aurora.

    The resolution says that many American Indian deaths were intentionally
    caused by Europeans and that early American settlers often treated
    Indians with "cruelty and inhumanity." It ends by urging Indians
    and people of European descent to treat each other with respect and
    recognize their mutual humanity.

    Two Republican lawmakers said the resolution unfairly generalized
    about the actions of Europeans who settled in the United States.
    From: Baghdasarian
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