Henry Morgenthau. U.S. Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire. reported "deportation of and excesses against peaceful Armenians is increasing and from harrowing reports of eye witnesses it appears that a campaign of race extermination is in progress under a pretext of reprisal against rebellion." Later Ambassador Morgenthau wrote "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 sufferings of the Armenian race in 1915." It is said that Adolf Hitler. when contemplating the "final solution" asked "Who remembers the Armenians?" Thus our purpose here today is more profound than simply recalling a tragic episode of history. It is to renew our resolve to do everything we can to ensure that the scourge of genocide is never again visited upon any people anywhere on this Earth.
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