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LONG BEACH CONSIDERS MAKING APRIL 'GENOCIDE AWARENESS MONTH'
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http://www.scpr.org/news/2012/04/09/31945/public-agencies-seek-remember-genocides-affected-l/
April 9 2012
CA
A couple of Los Angeles County public agencies are taking steps this
month to memorialize genocides in foreign countries.
In his motion to establish April as Genocide Awareness Month, Long
Beach Councilman Dee Andrews listed the atrocities that have made
April the cruelest month.
In April 1915, the killings of more than a million Armenians began
in present-day Turkey. The same month, in 1933, the Nazis in Germany
wrote a decree to eliminate European Jews.
April 1975 marked the month the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia began a
campaign of terror now known as the Killing Fields. The killing of
Bosnian Muslims began in April 1992. The Rwandan Genocide began in
the same month in 1994, and ethnic-based killings began in Sudan in
April 2003.
Long Beach has a large Cambodian population that is backing the City
Council genocide awareness motion, which will be taken up next week.
LAUSD's school board will consider a motion on Tuesday that will
designate April as Armenian Genocide Remembrance Month.
89.3 KPCC
http://www.scpr.org/news/2012/04/09/31945/public-agencies-seek-remember-genocides-affected-l/
April 9 2012
CA
A couple of Los Angeles County public agencies are taking steps this
month to memorialize genocides in foreign countries.
In his motion to establish April as Genocide Awareness Month, Long
Beach Councilman Dee Andrews listed the atrocities that have made
April the cruelest month.
In April 1915, the killings of more than a million Armenians began
in present-day Turkey. The same month, in 1933, the Nazis in Germany
wrote a decree to eliminate European Jews.
April 1975 marked the month the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia began a
campaign of terror now known as the Killing Fields. The killing of
Bosnian Muslims began in April 1992. The Rwandan Genocide began in
the same month in 1994, and ethnic-based killings began in Sudan in
April 2003.
Long Beach has a large Cambodian population that is backing the City
Council genocide awareness motion, which will be taken up next week.
LAUSD's school board will consider a motion on Tuesday that will
designate April as Armenian Genocide Remembrance Month.