In a Wednesday letter to all her 434 colleagues in the House of Representatives, lawmaker Eddie Bernice Johnson, representing the Dallas area in Texas, opposed a planned resolution that urged the United States to formally recognize 1915 incidents as "genocide".
Addressing the resolution's sponsors in her letter, Johnson said: "I respectfully ask for your careful consideration of the proposed Armenian genocide resolution, a resolution that holds that the inhumanity in the inter-communal war in 1915 was one-sided."
She added: "I am naturally troubled by the assertions in the resolution, which would endorse one side of a historic dispute between Armenia and Turkey, thus undermining today
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