On July 16. in a cable to the Secretary of State. the U.S. Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire. Henry Morgenthau. stated: Deportation of and excesses against peaceful Armenians is increasing and from harrowing reports of eye witnesses it appears that a campaign of race extermination is in progress under a pretext of reprisal against rebellion. It is said that Adolph Hitler. when contemplating the final solution asked "Who remembers the Armenians?" Thus our purpose here today is much more than to simply recall a tragic fact of history. it is to renew our resolve to do everything we can to insure that such a tragedy is never again visited upon any people anywhere on this Earth. The world is. regrettably. not yet rid of the scourge of genocide.
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