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TRENTON – The Senate today unanimously approved a measure sponsored by Senators Joseph V. Doria, Jr. and Loretta Weinberg to designate May 19-25, 2006 as “Genocide Awareness Week” in New Jersey.

“One of our greatest obligations in the brotherhood of humanity is to stand up against atrocious injustices committed in the name of ethnic, religious or national purity,” said Senator Doria, D-Hudson. “Genocide is an affront to the basic tenets of humanitarianism, and we should stand, and with one loud, clear voice decry any attempts to rid this world of one of its peoples as morally reprehensible. The actions of madmen conducted on this planet in the name of genocide have an impact on all of us, and we have a collective responsibility to express outrage wherever it should rear its ugly head.”

TRENTON – A resolution sponsored by Senators Joseph V. Doria, Jr. and Loretta Weinberg that would designate May 19-25, 2006 as “Genocide Awareness Week” in New Jersey was unanimously approved today by the Senate State Government Committee.

“Too often in our world, acts of unspeakable violence are perpetrated against a people in the name of genocide or ethnic cleansing,” said Senator Doria, D-Hudson. ” The same basic pattern follows, whether you’re talking about Nazi Germany or the Darfur region of the Sudan. Genocide destabilizes the bonds that hold us together in the brotherhood of humanity, and the free world has an obligation to oppose any attempts to eradicate an ethnic group for political, racial or religious reasons.”