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CA AJR41

Joint Resolution

Official Source

Status

Introduced

6/19/2012

Primary Sponsor

Diane Harkey

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Origin

State Assembly

2011-2012 Session

AI Summary

  • Designates August 7, 2012, as Assyrian Martyrs Remembrance Day in California
  • Affirms that the International Association of Genocide Scholars recognized Assyrians suffered genocide by the Ottoman Empire between 1914 and 1923
  • References the 1933 massacre of Assyrians in Simel, Iraq on August 11, 1933
  • Requests the President and Congress of the United States to commemorate Assyrian Martyrs Remembrance Day
  • Directs the Chief Clerk of the Assembly to transmit copies of the resolution to the President, Vice President, Members of Congress, the Governor, and the Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East

Legislative Description

Assyrian Martyrs Remembrance Day.

Last Action

From printer.

6/20/2012

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