Armenians were systematically murdered. tortured. forced out of their homes and left to die. under the Ottoman Empire. In a July 16 telegram to the Secretary of State in 1915. the United States Ambassador. Henry Morgenthau stated that "Deportation of and excesses against peaceful Armenians is increasing and from the harrowing reports of eyewitnesses it appears that a campaign of race extermination is in progress under a pretext of reprisal against rebellion." Obvious similarities with modernday tragedies from Saddam Husseins programs against the Kurds to ethnic cleansing in BosniaHerzegovina show that we do well to mark this day. Surely. those who have been the victims of genocidal campaigns must mourn that we who are left to remember seem determined to forget and to turn away. We honor the memory of these Armenians by rededicating ourselves to remembrance.
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