As we commemorate the period from 1915 to 1923 during which history records the tragic loss of two of every three Armenians then living in their homeland. I would like us to reflect upon a statement made in 1918 by Henry Morganthau. the United States Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire. He said: When the Turkish authorities gave the orders for these deportations. they were merely giving the death warrant to a whole race. they understood this well. and. in their conversations with me they made no particular attempt to conceal the fact. I am confident that the whole history of the human race contains no such horrible episode as this. The great massacres and persecutions of the past seem almost insignificant when compared to the suffering of the Armenian race In 1916.
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