Said Toynbee: The atrociousness of the two great twentieth century wars was aggravated by genocide (i.e. the wholesale extermination of civilian populations). In the First World War the Turks committed genocide against the Armenians. in the Second World War. the Germans committed genocide against the Jews. And Churchill had this to say: In 1915 the Turkish Government began and carried out the infamous general massacre and deportation of Armenians in Asia Minor. President Theodore Roosevelt said. "The Armenian Massacre was the great single crime of World War I." Now I find it quite ironic that President Ronald Reagan. whose State Department is now seeking to block this resolution. on April 22. 1981. had this to say: 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. Based on the overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
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