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SR87:v98#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Enrolled
 April 22, 2026

 Passed
 IN 
 Senate
 April 20, 2026

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Senate Resolution

No. 87

Introduced by Senator Archuleta
(Coauthors: Senators Allen, Blakespear, Caballero, Cortese, Dahle, Durazo, Gonzalez, McGuire, Menjivar, Ochoa Bogh, Pérez, Reyes, Richardson, Rubio, Smallwood-Cuevas, Strickland, Valladares, and Wahab)

March 10, 2026

 Relative to the Armenian Genocide.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SR 87, Archuleta.

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WHEREAS, Armenians have resided in Armenian Highlands for approximately four millennia and have a long and rich history in the region, including the establishment of many kingdoms, and despite Armenians’ historic presence, stewardship, and autonomy in the region, Turkish rulers of the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey subjected Armenians to severe and unjust persecution and brutality, including wholesale massacres beginning in the 1890s; and

WHEREAS, The Armenian nation was subjected to a systematic and premeditated genocide officially beginning on April 24, 1915, at the hands of the Young Turk Government of the Ottoman Empire from 1915 to 1919, inclusive, and continued at the hands of the Kemalist Movement of Turkey from 1920 to 1923, inclusive, whereby over 1.5 million Armenian men, women, and children were slaughtered or marched to their deaths in an effort to annihilate the Armenian nation in the first genocide of modern times, while thousands of surviving Armenian women and children were forced to convert to Islam and be raised as non-Armenians and hundreds of thousands more were subjected to ethnic cleansing during the period of the modern Republic of Turkey from 1924 to 1937, inclusive; and 

WHEREAS, During the genocides of the Christians living in the Ottoman Empire and surrounding regions, which occurred during the first half of the 20th century, 1.5 million men, women, and children of Armenian descent, and hundreds of thousands of Assyrians, Greeks, and other Christians, lost their lives at the hands of the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey, constituting one of the most atrocious violations of human rights in the history of the world; and 

WHEREAS, These crimes against humanity also had the consequence of permanently removing all traces of the Armenians and other targeted people from their historic homelands of more than four millennia and enriching the perpetrators with the lands and other property of the victims of these crimes, including the usurpation of several thousand churches; and 

WHEREAS, Between 1918 and 1920, the Ottoman Army supported the newly established Republic of Azerbaijan in displacing and massacring thousands of Armenians in Baku, Shushi, and Nakhichevan, highlighting the Ottoman Empire’s goal of erasing Armenians from their own territories and that of neighboring states’ territories; and 

WHEREAS, In response to the genocide and at the behest of President Woodrow Wilson and the United States Department of State, the Near East Relief organization was founded and became the first congressionally sanctioned American philanthropic effort created exclusively to provide humanitarian assistance and rescue to the Armenian nation and other Christian minorities from annihilation, who went on to survive and thrive outside of their ancestral homeland all over the world and specifically in this state; and 

WHEREAS, Near East Relief succeeded, with the active participation of the citizens from this state, in delivering $117 million in assistance, and saving more than one million refugees, including 132,000 orphans, between 1915 and 1930, by delivering food, clothing, and materials for shelter and by setting up refugee camps, clinics, hospitals, and orphanages; and 

WHEREAS, The Armenian nation survived the genocide despite the attempt by the Ottoman Empire to exterminate it; and 

WHEREAS, Adolf Hitler, in persuading army commanders that the merciless persecution and killing of Jews, Poles, and other people would bring no retribution, declared, “Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?”; and 

WHEREAS, On November 4, 1918, immediately after the collapse of the Young Turk regime and before the founding of the Republic