Henry Morganthau. U.S. Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire at the time. sent a telegram to the Secretary of State which stated that "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." President Reagan. in a 1981 proclamation regarding the victims of the Holocaust stated that "like the .genocide of the Armenians before it. and the genocide of the Cambodians which followed itand like too many other such persecutions of too many other peoplesthe lessons of the Holocaust must never be forgotten." Most recently in Congress. a resolution was introduced on February 4. 1987. to designate April 24. 1987 as a "National Day of Remembrance of Mans Inhumanity to Man" especially for remembering the Armenian genocide by the governments of the Ottoman Turkish Empire. It is our moral obligation to remember the tragedy of the Armenian genocide and work toward the prevention of mass human destruction. The consequences of this act have deeply changed the lives of not only surviving Armenians and their relatives. but for all of mankind.
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