Speaker. 2 short days ago. I returned to the United States of America from a heartwrenching weekend joumey into what I call no mans land. I was joined by four of my colleagues as we toured the crude. makeshift refugee camps that have sprung up along the TurkishIraqi border. camps where hundreds of thousands of Kurds are taking whatever refuge they can from the forces of Saddam Hussein. The conditions we saw were nothing short of horrendous: a lack of food and clean water. no sanitary facilities. nonexistent medicine. rampant disease. frigid temperatures. and no shelter. And always the fear that their enemy was just over the next ridge waiting to continue its campaign of murder and terror. It is not an exaggeration to say that the Kurds are prisoners in no mans land. thrust into this hell on Earth by a systematic campaign of terror by Saddam Hussein. We should all be proud that the United States is leading the worldwide humanitarian effort to provide life support for the Kurdish people. However. we should also be mindful that the ethnic terrorism that transformed these Kurds Into pathetic refugees Is not a new phenomenon. Just as we must stop Saddams attack on the Kurds and just as we must never forget Hitlers genocide of the Jews. we must also remember the unspeakable tragedy that befell the Armenian people 70 years ago. From 1915 to 1923. 1.5 million Armenians living in Turkey under the Ottoman Empire were systematically and purposely massacred.
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