Mr. Speaker. I rise today to commemorate the 77th anniversary of the terrible slaughter of Armenian civilians In 1915. The Armenian people have suffered greatly through three decades of persecutions that included both mass deportations and massacres on a wide scale. Massacres in 1896. 1909. and 1915 tested the strength of the Armenian community. A decade of forced relocations shattered the lives of many and stressed spirits to the limit. This year. as we remember the past sufferings of the Armenian people. it Is a commemoration marked by the historic emergence of a new. independent Armenia from the ashes of the former Soviet Union.
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