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    Armenian National Committee of America
    888 17th St., NW Suite 904
    Washington, DC 20006
    Tel: (202) 775-1918
    Fax: (202) 775-5648
    E-mail: [email protected]
    Internet: www.anca.org

    PRESS RELEASE

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
    March 13, 2006
    Contact: Elizabeth S. Chouldjian
    Tel: (202) 775-1918

    ANCA SHARES GENOCIDE PREVENTION ADVOCACY EXPERIENCE WITH
    CHRISTIAN ACTIVISTS WORKING TO END THE DARFUR GENOCIDE

    -- Executive Director Speaks to Annual Gathering
    of Christian Leaders Working for Peace and
    Justice in Africa and the Middle East

    WASHINGTON, DC - As part of the Armenian National Committee of
    America's (ANCA) ongoing outreach to the broader genocide-
    prevention community, Executive Director Aram Hamparian shared the
    Armenian American advocacy experiences with participants in
    Ecumenical Advocacy Days, an annual gathering of over a thousand
    Christian activists from around the nation concerned about U.S.
    foreign policy in Africa and the Middle East.

    In his March 11th presentation on the Darfur Genocide, Hamparian
    began by noting the profound gratitude of Armenians for the role
    that Christian churches played in raising protests during the
    Armenian Genocide, providing relief to its survivors, and in
    establishing orphanages for the countless thousands of children
    left parentless by this crime. Stressing the special
    responsibility that Armenians bear as victims of the 20th Century's
    first genocide, Hamparian discussed the efforts by the Armenian
    American community to bear witness to the horrific human costs of
    genocide, to press for action to end the genocide in Darfur, and,
    more broadly, to help generate the political will to ensure that
    this crime is never again visited upon any other peoples - anywhere
    in the world. He then spent the remainder of his presentation
    outlining the policy-based and practical political steps needed to
    build an effective anti-genocide constituency at both the
    grassroots and national levels.

    Also speaking as part of this panel discussion were Elnour Adam
    from the Darfur Rehabilitation Project and John Heffernan, the
    Genocide Prevention Initiative Director of the U.S. Holocaust
    Memorial Museum's Committee on Conscience. The panel discussion
    was moderated by Marie Clarke Brill, Africa Action's Director for
    Public Education and Mobilization.

    Among the organizations sponsoring the program were the World
    Council of Churches, the National Council of Churches, American
    Friends Service Committee, Children's Defense Fund, Episcopal
    Church USA, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Presbyterian
    Church (USA), United Church of Christ, and the United Methodist
    Church. Featured speakers at the program included E.J. Dionne,
    Jr., a columnist for the Washington Post; Rev. Dr. Suzan Johnson
    Cook, Senior Pastor at the Believers Christian Fellowship and
    President of the 10,000 member Hampton (Virginia) University
    Ministries' Conference, and; Rev. Dr. Michael Kinnamon, who is
    widely regarded as a leading voice in the ecumenical movement. He
    formerly served as the Executive Secretary of the World Council of
    Churches' Faith and Order Commission.

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