I would like to take this time to say a few words on what many historians have called the first genocide of the 20th century. the systematic annihilation of almost 2 million Armenians by the Turkish Government 65 years ago. This week marks the anniversary of this atrocity. one of the most brutal on record. It was in 1915. that the Armenian people became victims of a planned extermination. combined with the forcible and illegal seizure of their land by the Turkish Government. Fridtjof Nansen. High Commissioner for Refugees under the League of Nations. wrote in 1926: Then. In June 1915. the horrors began to which we know no parallel in history. From all the villages and towns of Cilica.
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