Mr. President. on this 72d 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 1 2 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. It was Prof. Raphael Lemkin. a lawyer who escaped Poland during the Nazi invasion of 1939. who first coined the word genocide in 1944.
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