However. 20 years before the first childrens screams were heard from the gas chambers of Auschwitz. the Turkish Government intentionally and systematically exterminated a significant portion of its Armenian populationmen. women. children. and infants. The only difference between the Ottoman Turks and the Nazis was that the former did not transport its victims by cattle car. It was more convenient to simply ride cavalry charges through migrating columns of internally deported. stricken Armenian refugees. As we sit today in the Congress or perhaps securely at home with our families. we should remember the millions of innocents who have died in the mud and the heat. in the freezing snow. tied to makeshift posts in the Turkish countryside. or slumped up against the cold sterile walls of a gas chamber. These were not people caught in the crossfire and confusion of war. ravaged by disease. starved by natures hand in a drought or drowned in a flood. but families of Armenians.
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