Speaker. 66 years ago this month the world witnessed the first planned genocide of the 20th century. The tragic and brutal events that began on April 24. 1915. in historic Armenia and other parts of the Ottoman Empire decimated the Armenian people. More than 2 million Armenian men. women. and children either lost their lives or were deported by an Ottoman Turkish Government bent on destroying the Armenian nation and any trace of the Armenian civilization. By the middle of 1916. the Armenian population of Turkey had quite literally ceased to exist. their ancestral lands had been taken. and a few thousand survivors had been scattered over the face of the Earth. The Armenian tragedy would have been an unspeakable horror even if it had been the only act of genocide to disgrace the worlds history in this century.
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