Over 80 House Members have added their name to the list of signatories of a letter urging President Bush to keep his campaign pledge and properly characterize the Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey in 1915 as "genocide" in his April 24 commemorative statement. As reported by the Armenian National Committee of America, the letter specifically notes that now more than ever as the Washington administration seeks to bring an end to global terrorism and to help establish democracies in Afghanistan and Iraq, the memory of the genocide underscores the US adherence to the tradition of respect for fundamental human rights and prevention of mass slaughters.