Speech #1010121550

The killing of over 1.5 million Armenians in Turkey and the scattering of tens of thousands more. particularly in 1915 and the months that followed. was the worlds first genocidal experience of this century. How horrible it Is to contemplate that a second genocidal policy would follow on even a greater scale only 25 years later. But to the Armenians and those who filed endless numbers of eyewitness accounts of the massacres and mass death following forced deportation of Armenians across Asia Minor in 1915. there could be no set of circumstances imaginable more completely depraved or corrupt or inhumane. The American Committee on Armenian Atrocities called the genocide. "the greatest. most pathetic. and most arbitrary tragedy In history." The American Ambassador to Turkey. Henry Morgenthau.