President. on this 71st anniversary of the Armenian genocide. we recall with sorrow the 1.5 million men. women. and children who died in the first genocide of the 20th century. Between 1915 and 1918. over lIV million Armenians perished of starvation and butchery at the hands of the Ottoman Turks. The genocide involved not only the killing of innocents but their forcible deportation across Asia Minor. They were persecuted. banished. and slaughtered while much of Europe was engaged in World War I. Acknowledgment of the Armenian genocide is particularly fitting since this year the Senate at long last has ratified the Genocide Treaty.
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