President. today we commemorate the 76th anniversary of the genocide which took the lives of an estimated 1.5 million Armenians from 1915 through 1923. On this day in 1915. the Ottoman campaign against the Armenian people began in earnest when hundreds of Armenian community leaders were arrested and killed in Istanbul. For the ensuing 8 years. the Ottoman Empires rulers singled out the Armenian people for their religious. political. and cultural differences. and sought to eliminate them through deportation and death. Accordingly. the Armenian people were the victims of the first genocide of the 20th century. These crimes against humanity must not be forgotten.
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