U.S. Representatives Gary Peters (D-MI), Howard Berman (D-CA), Anna Eshoo (D-CA), Adam Schiff (D-CA), and have offered U.S. House floor statements over the past week marking Azerbaijan's pogroms and massacres against ethnic Armenian civilians in Sumgait, Kirovabad, and Baku, reported the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA).

These four legislators join with Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA), the Co-Chairman of the Congressional Human Rights Caucus, and Judy Chu (D-CA), who made Congressional statements regarding these massacres earlier this month, and with Congressman David Cicilline (D-RI), who issued a public statement this week marking these human rights atrocities.

"We join with friends of Armenia and advocates of human rights from California, Michigan, Rhode Island, Virginia and across America in thanking each of Members of Congress who has joined with Armenians worldwide in marking the Sumgait, Kirovabad, and Baku pogroms," said ANCA Executive Director Aram Hamparian. "In pausing to remember these atrocities we reaffirm our commitment to challenging Azerbaijan's aggression and threats of renewed war, and, more broadly, to protecting the innocent and promoting peace for all the peoples of the Caucasus region."