Armenian Martyrs Day. Mr. President. the deportation. starvation. and horrible extermination sustained by innocent Armenians during these years are not the sole instances of mans incredible inhumanity to man in this bloodsoaked region of the world. Yet. how ironic it is that these crimes were often committed by people who shared. or would soon share. the same persecution at the hands of a venomous majority. How ironic that many of the participants in these compaigns of slaughter were Kurds. who were themselves an oppressed people yearning for selfdetermination. How equally ironic that many of the same Turks who perpetrated the genocidal acts against the Armenians would see their own descendants suffer similar massacres in Cyprus. while others would be objects of discrimination and scorn in several Western European cities. where Turks are an immigrant work force. While a pitiful few learn from the vindictive turns of the wheel of history. let the U.S. Senate never be afraid to loudly decry acts of atrocity. wherever and whenever they are committed.
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