Vahe Abovian
United Armenian Students
1201 N. Vine St. #200
Los Angeles, CA 90038
info@uasweb.org
Tel. (323) 464-0479
3,000-Mile Walk Aims to Raise Awareness On Crimes Against Humanity, Youth Seek Resolution from the White House
California youths will walk from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C. in honor of victims of crimes against humanity and in an effort to raise awareness for forgotten and mislabeled genocides.
The 3,000-mile walk titled, “Journey for Humanity,” one of many events planned by United Armenian Students, a student-led, non-profit organization based in Los Angeles will begin in mid June, 2006 in Los Angeles and end in November 2006 in Washington, D.C.
During the entire journey and upon arriving in Washington, D.C., a series of events, rallies, and meetings will be organized not only to demand recognition from the White House on the unpunished genocide of 1.5 Million Armenians by the Ottoman Turks between 1915-1923, but also to promote public legislative recognition of all crimes against humanity.
“The purpose of ‘Journey for Humanity’ is twofold: First it aims to keep the memory of the victims of crimes against humanity alive by illuminating the truth, and second, it seeks to heal the wounds of the victims by exposing the perpetrators as well as those governments that, in the face of insurmountable evidence, remain silent by choosing profits over people,” said “Journey for Humanity” project director Vahe Abovian.
UAS represents Armenian-American students from dozens of universities, colleges and professional schools in Southern California, dedicated to promoting community causes, empowering the community with cultural values and interests and helping youth become productive members of the community.
“Human nature is conditioned to getting used to a lot of things, especially things that happened in the distant past,” said Viktoriya Pakhanyan of UAS. “Perpetrators are counting on the passing of genocide survivors, dying of memories and those governments that get complacent with the denial of genocide, -“the getting used to” factor of crimes against humanity. Our failure to recognize and respond to such human rights violations is what brought us to Darfur,” she added.
Among the most notable cases of genocides throughout history includes, the genocide of 1.5 million Armenians, 750,000 Assyrians and 1 million Greeks by the Ottoman Turkish Empire, 6 million Jews by Nazy Germany, 1.7 million Vietnamese, Chinese and Cham Muslims by the Pol Pot Government of Cambodia, over 5,000 Kurds by the Iraq Government under Saddam Hussein, 200,000 Muslim Bosnians by the Bosnian Serbs, 800,000 Tutsis by the Hutu Militias, and currently in Darfur, 400,000 Furs and counting by the Sudanese Government’s “Janjaweed” militia.
UAS expects that human rights organizations, activists, students and other interested individuals will unite throughout the 3,000-mile walk from California to Washington D.C. in making their demands to the perpetrators and deniers of crimes against humanity loud and clear.
For more information about the “Journey for Humanity,” please visit us at www.Journeyforhumanity.com or contact United Armenian Students offices at:
1201 N. Vine St. #200
Los Angeles, CA 90038
E-mail: info@journeyforhumanity.com
Tel: (323) 464-0479
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