Mr. Speaker. I rise today to join with my colleagues in commemorating one of the most heinous atrocities committed against humanity: the Armenian genocide. In 1915. the Armenian people of the Ottoman Empire were subjected to systematic extermination through a policy of deportation and massacre. It Is estimated that a million and a half Armenians eventually perished because of the atrocities committed against them by agents of the Ottoman Turks. This terrible event Is known as the first genocide of the 20th century. and we must never forget it. Elie Wiesel. chairman of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council and a survivor of the Holocaust. summed up the reason why.
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