Mr. Speaker. reading the history of the Armenian genocide Is horrifying. It is a story of struggle for autonomy and Independence against a backdrop of deportation. violence. and exodus. One learns of a systematic pattern of murder and brutality against Armenians from 1915 to 1923: Leaders of the Armenian community--religious. intellectual. and political--were rounded up and brutally murdered. Entire villages were wiped out in systematic destruction. Armenian men of military age were conscripted into the service of the Ottoman army. These men were separated into labor battalions. disarmed. and worked to death or massacred. Hundreds of thousands of Armenians were deported from their homeland. The men were usually murdered. The elderly men. women. and children were either jammed into boxcars without food or water. or were forced to march across Asia Minor to the Syrian desert.
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