House Joint Resolution 247. to designate April 24. 1985. as "National Day of Remembrance of Mans Inhumanity to Man." As one who believes strongly that we should constantly speak out against all violations of human rightsboth past and present. and as a cosponsor of this resolution. I urge all my colleagues to lend their support to this measure. It was the mobilization for World War I that set the stage for the tragic genocide of thousands of Christian Armenians. By February 1915. the Turkish Government had already begun to segregate Armenians into labor battalions. as well as disarming and deporting countless others. On April 24. 1915. about 200 Armenian religious. political. and intellectual leaders were arrested in Istanbul and were either exiled or murdered. And so began the grim carnage against Armenians that was carried out throughout the Ottoman Empire in all Armenian centers.
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