I am sure that most of my colleagues are familiar with the sequence of those events. We know that 65 years ago tonight the intellectual and spiritual leaders of the Armenian community were arrested and later sent to an exile that many of them did not survive. As soon as the leaders had been removed. a massive program for uprooting and deporting nearly all of the 2 million Armenians in Turkey was begun. Over the next year more than 1 million of these Armenians lost their lives. either at the hands of the Turks and Kurds. or through famine in the Syrian desert to which they were exiled. Several hundred thousand Armenian women and children were sold into slavery.
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