Mr. Speaker. today we are observing the 50th anniversary of one of the greatest crimes agaiftst humanity in the history of the world. the murder or deportation of almost 2 million Armenians by the Turks. What happened 50 years ago was part of a plan to obliterate the Armenian people from the face of the earth. Clearly. the Turks were guilty of the most heinous of crimes. genocide. the attempted murder of a whole people. It is easy to blame only the Turks for this terrible crime. But in a larger sense all the people of the world can share in the guilt for the awful happenings which occurred in this ancient land. for the world treated this monstrous crime with an attitude of almost complete disinterest.
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