FOR IMMIDIATE RELEASE
July 16, 2006

Ruzanna Avetisyan
pr@journeyforhumanity.com
(323) 464 0479
(800) 657 1707

California and Nevada behind, the ‘Journey for Humanity’ Continues through Utah
The Group Is to Hold Event in Salt Lake City

The Journey for Humanity was initiated on Tuesday, June 27, 2006. A group of Californians have been walking from Los Angeles to Washington D.C. in protest of the many Genocides that have afflicted the recent history of humanity. This admirable effort aims to raise awareness of crimes against humanity.
The walkers and their entourage, consisting of a car and a recreational vehicle, have just entered the great state of Utah. The group is scheduled to hold a community event in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, August 2, 2006. The details of the event will be announced prior to the event.

The United Armenian Students, a five year old Los Angeles based non-profit organization, is the driving engine behind the Journey for Humanity. This journey is actively receiving support form the Western and Eastern Dioceses of the Armenian Church of America, as well as the Armenian Assembly of America.

The journey aims to educate the public about how every American can help to prevent genocide. Additionally, the marchers will be speaking to our elected representatives in Congress and encourage them to pass several pieces of legislation that will address issues regarding the Armenian, Jewish, Cambodian, and Rwandan Genocides, and today’s ongoing Genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan.
The march itself is a symbolic reenactment of the death marches that many of the victims of the

Armenian genocide had to endure before their annihilation.

“The purpose of the Journey for Humanity is twofold: First it aims to keep the memory of the victims of crimes against humanity alive by illuminating the truth, and second, it seeks to heal the wounds of the victims by exposing the perpetrators as well as those governments that, in the fact of insurmountable evidence, remain silent by choosing profits over people,” said the Journey for Humanity project director and participant Vahe Abovian.

For more information please visit www.journeyforhumanity.com.