Mr. Speaker. today. hundreds of thousands of Kurdish refugees are fleeing their homeland in order to escape slaughter by the forces of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. We sympathize with their plight. having to flee hundreds of miles through frozen. muddy mountain passes in order to reach safety and only to be met with misery. The Kurds are suffering from hunger. exposure. and disease and as many as a thousand are estimated to be dying daily. Seventysix years ago this April. another group of people. the Armenians. were also uprooted from their homeland. The Armenians were not only uprooted from their homeland of 3.000 years. but were massacred by the barbadc rulers of the Ottoman Empire. or driven into exile.
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