I rise today in support of Senate Joint Resolution 212. to establish a National Day of Remembrance of the Armenian Genocide of 191523. I am pleased to be a cosponsor of this joint resolution. With its passage. we will recognize the first genocide of the 20th century. Between 1915 and 1918. over 1/2 million Armenians perished of starvation and butchery at the hands of the Ottoman Empire. The genocide involved not only the killing of innocents but their forcible deportation across Asia Minor. They were persecuted. banished. and slaughtered while much of Europe was engaged in World War I. Mr.
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