THE SENATE S.C.R. NO. 109 THIRTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE, 2025 STATE OF HAWAII SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ACKNOWLEDGING AND URGING TURKEY AND IRAQ TO RECOGNIZE THE GENOCIDE COMMITTED AGAINST ASSYRIANS BETWEEN 1915-1933.
THE SENATE S.C.R. NO. 109
THIRTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE, 2025
STATE OF HAWAII
THE SENATE
S.C.R. NO.
109
THIRTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE, 2025
STATE OF HAWAII
SENATE CONCURRENT
RESOLUTION
ACKNOWLEDGING AND URGING TURKEY AND IRAQ TO RECOGNIZE THE GENOCIDE COMMITTED AGAINST ASSYRIANS BETWEEN 1915-1933.
WHEREAS, international scholars emphasize the importance of acknowledging historic acts of genocide to deter future occurrences of mass violence; and WHEREAS, formal state recognition of genocide can be an important first step in giving historians and scholars access to needed records; and WHEREAS, this year marks the 110th anniversary of the Armenian, Assyrian, and Greek genocide of 1915 (also known as the Seyfo genocide), which was committed by Ottoman Turks; and WHEREAS, between 1915 and 1923, approximately twothirds of the Assyrian population were slaughtered while living in the Ottoman Empire and in Persia on ancestral lands; and WHEREAS, in August 1933, approximately six thousand Assyrians were brutally murdered in Simele in the Dohuk and Mosul districts of modernday Iraq by the nascent Iraqi army and irregular Kurdish and Arab forces; and WHEREAS, the genocide committed against Assyrians has largely gone unrecognized and is denied by the governments of Iraq and Turkey; and WHEREAS, the International Association of Genocide Scholars has found that the genocide against the Assyrian population was part of a larger campaign against Christian minorities, including Armenians and Pontian and Anatolian Greeks; and WHEREAS, the European Parliament has urged Turkey to recognize the Armenian, Assyrian, and Greek genocides and facilitate scholars' access to historical archives; now, therefore, BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the Thirty-third Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2025, the House of Representatives concurring, that this body acknowledges the genocide committed against Assyrians between 1915 and 1923 and the Seyfo genocide committed in 1933; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this body joins the European Parliament in urging the governments of Turkey and Iraq to recognize the genocide against Assyrians and to give scholars access to historical archives and "all relevant documents"; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Concurrent Resolution be transmitted to the United States Secretary of State, Governor, President of Turkey, President of Iraq, and International Association of Genocide Scholars. OFFERED BY: _____________________________ Report Title: Assyrian Genocide; Seyfo Genocide
WHEREAS, international scholars emphasize the importance of acknowledging historic acts of genocide to deter future occurrences of mass violence; and
WHEREAS, formal state recognition of genocide can be an important first step in giving historians and scholars access to needed records; and
WHEREAS, this year marks the 110th anniversary of the Armenian, Assyrian, and Greek genocide of 1915 (also known as the Seyfo genocide), which was committed by Ottoman Turks; and
WHEREAS, between 1915 and 1923, approximately twothirds of the Assyrian population were slaughtered while living in the Ottoman Empire and in Persia on ancestral lands; and
WHEREAS, in August 1933, approximately six thousand Assyrians were brutally murdered in Simele in the Dohuk and Mosul districts of modernday Iraq by the nascent Iraqi army and irregular Kurdish and Arab forces; and
WHEREAS, the genocide committed against Assyrians has largely gone unrecognized and is denied by the governments of Iraq and Turkey; and
WHEREAS, the International Association of Genocide Scholars has found that the genocide against the Assyrian population was part of a larger campaign against Christian minorities, including Armenians and Pontian and Anatolian Greeks; and
WHEREAS, the European Parliament has urged Turkey to recognize the Armenian, Assyrian, and Greek genocides and facilitate scholars' access to historical archives; now, therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the Thirty-third Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2025, the House of Representatives concurring, that this body acknowledges the genocide committed against Assyrians between 1915 and 1923 and the Seyfo genocide committed in 1933; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this body joins the European Parliament in urging the governments of Turkey and Iraq to recognize the genocide against Assyrians and to give scholars access to historical archives and "all relevant documents"; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Concurrent Resolution be transmitted to the United States Secretary of State, Governor, President of Turkey, President of Iraq, and International Association of Genocide Scholars.
OFFERED BY: _____________________________
OFFERED BY:
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Report Title:
Assyrian Genocide; Seyfo Genocide