In the name of nationhood or of a supposed greatness attached to a particular people. millions of human beings have suffered because their own ethnic background or religious beliefs did not conform to those of the ruling authority of the time. A particularly cataclysmic instance of this occurred from 1915 through 1923. when the Ottoman Empire massacred an estimated 1.5 million Armenians living for the most part in Asia Minor. Whole villages were wiped out. thousands of individuals were deported. and countless others fled Into the desert. where many perished from exposure or disease. The property was sequestered. and centuries of culture destroyed. It has come to my attention that the August 1982 Issue of the Department of State Bulletin carried a statement describing the record of the massacres as "ambiguous." and further declaring that "the Department of Sta.e does not endorse allegations that the Turkish Government committed a genocide against the Armenian people." Mr.
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