The killing of the Armenian people was accompanied by the systematic destruction of churches. schools. libraries. treasures of art and of history. in an attempt to eliminate all traces of a noble civilization some 3.000 years old. What Ambassador Morgenthau wrote in the years following the great tragedy was consonant with his reporting at the time the events took place. For on July 16 of the first year of the massacres. 1915. he sent the following message by telegraph to the Secretary of State: Deportation of and excesses against peaceful Armenians is increasing and from harrowing reports of eyewitnesses it appears that a campaign of race extermination is in progress under pretext of reprisal against rebellion. Reports to Ambassador Morgenthau by consul generals in the field. consular dispatches. substantiated the Ambassadors experience of what was taking place with respect to the massacre of the Armenians. We know. and it has been alluded to here. that the European parliament has passed a resolution on this matter. that the United Nations Commission on Human Rights has passed a resolution reaffirming the Armenian genocide as a historical fact. and that the United Nations Commission on Human Rights has recognized the Armenian genocide in its report.
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