Mr. Speaker. I rise today in remembrance of the 78th anniversary of the massive slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Armenians. During 1915 and 1916. in the midst of a world at war. Armenians were subject to arbitrary arrests. torture. deportations. and even murder. Women. children. and older men were rounded up. village aflter village. and forced to march through the Anatolian mountains toward the Syrian desert. Eyewitness accounts describe the exhausted. diseased. halfstarved survivors forced to leave the weaker to die along the roadside. Thousands of Armenians were. even. reported to have been sent out on ships to the Black Sea. and forced overboard to drown.
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