In these batallions the Armenians were worked to death. or massacred by their tormentors. The massacre continued in the fall of the same year as the Ottoman Turkish Government went from village to village destroying homes and entire families of Armenians. The sole reason for these invasions was to settle the "Armenian Question." Another attack on the Armenian people came with the deportation of their race from their homeland. This act left thousands of Armenians homeless and hungryand ultimately dead. Mr. Speaker. on February 19. 1986. the Senate approved the Genocide Convention. This act reaffirmed the U.S. commitment to work toward the preservation of the human race. Between 1915 and 1923 we almost lost an entire race of peoplethe Armenianslet us never. ever. let this happen again! 500.000 Armenian refugees escaped to Turkey. and fled to nearby Russia. Europe and the United States. These people have the task of carrying on their race under the dark cloud of near extinction.
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