And I think that this resolution will help achieve that noble goal. President Roosevelt said. "The Armenian Massacre was the great single crime of (World War I)." The U.S. Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire in 1915 wired the Secretary of State: "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." And on April 22. 1981. President Ronald Reagan. whose State Department has sought to block these resolutions. 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. In fact 10 Presidents of the United States have referred to the persecution of the Armenians.
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