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If you are in the US, write Your Congresspeople to speak up at the June
18 House Foreign Affairs Committee on US policy in the Caucasus. They will have the opportunity to
question State Department officials on the situation in Armenia. Please write your congresspeople and let them
know that the Armenian regime has to honor its people, not just their
pockets, if they want further US support:
1. Click here:
2. Copy this text to send to your representative:
meets regarding U.S. policy toward the Caucasus region. Please
take action to demand that the Armenian regime release peaceful,
democratic citizens. Americans
cannot continue to subsidize a corrupt oligarchy that has murdered 10
and jailed 1000s of its democratic, Western-thinking activists in the
wake of its Soviet-style 'elections'.
Ashot Manukyan from
the northern city of Vanadzor is of those citizens now in jail. Mr.
Manukyan has spent his life fighting corruption and human rights
violations - he is exactly the type of person the U.S. spends top
dollar to see succeed in Armenia and exactly the type of person the Armenian regime is suppressing.
infrastructure and economic development ... if we know that human
rights are protected, if we know that civil liberties are protected, if
we know that media rights are protected."
In Armenia, these
rights are decidedly not protected. The current regime has yet to meet
the basic demands of the recent PACE resolution on democracy and will likely lose their
vote in the Council of Europe - a telling humiliation.
Today's
Armenian victims suffer at the hands of a select few who work to keep
the Turkish border closed to maintain their monopolies and who sell the
country wholesale to Russia while its citizenry barely survives. All
the while mocking US aid (see former President Kocharian's remarks regarding the possible suspension of MCC funding).
Congress and the new ambassador
must demand more from this Armenian regime. At the least, the United
States cannot let ordinary, brave citizens like Ashot Manukyan be
abducted, beaten and illegally prosecuted by a government that has
heartlessly pillaged its own people. Persons jailed for simply
demanding an honest government must be freed immediately.
3. Enter your zip code in Take Action box (press Go)
4. Write in a Subject (Armenian Political Prisoners)
5. Pick an Issue (civil rights, foreign affairs, etc.)
6. Paste the text from above in the text box (or write your own)
7. fill in the boxes with * next to them
8. Hit Send Message at the bottom
Thanks for your support!
Also email the PACE
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Also email the PACE representatives who will be in Armenia June 16-7 to determine how far the country has regressed. CC the Chairman of the US House Foreign Relations committee too (they meet June 18th):
coepa.del@parliament.uk,
gcolombier@assemblee-nationale.fr,
howard.berman@mail.house.gov
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