We remember the enslavement of black Americans and continue to this day to address the legacy of pain and injury that black Americans have inherited from that chapter in American history. Senate Joint Resolution 212 acts as a reminder of the violations of human rights against the Armenian people. 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 Genocide Treaty. which the United States ratified in 1988. defines genocide as acting with a "specific intent to destroy. in whole or in substantial part. a national. ethnic. racial or religious group." History shows that the Ottomans intended to eradicate the Armenian population. As many as 1.5 million Armeniansincluding women and children who were not a security threat to the Ottomansdied from forced marches and massacres.
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