Speaker. I join with my colleagues In commemorating the 50th anniversary of the independence of Armenia and with all Armenian Americans who are looking anxiously forward to the day when freedom and peace are attained in their homeland. Historic Armenia. going back to the middle ages. was overrun by Asiatic conquerors. The most oppressive of these overlords were the Ottoman Turks. who ruthlessly subjugated the Armenians for more than four centuries. In 1915. the little courageous nation was practically decimated by deportations and massacres. Turkish Armenia was on the verge of being wiped out and those Armenians living in the Caucasus were fearful of the same fate. It is estimated that during World War I more than one million Armenians lost their lives in Turkish massacres.
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