Mr. Speaker. I rise In memory of people killed In an event so horrific that at the time. there was no word to describe it. I am referring to the mass slaughter of Armenians that began on April 24. 1915. The Armenian people endured a forced deportation from their homes that turned into a death march. It is estimated that more than 1 million Armenians died during this tragic event. Today we have a word for crimes like this: genocide. And we have learned as well the result when genocide is allowed to be carded out with Impunity. Adolf Hitler asked rhetorically. "Who remembers the Armenians?" He used the example of the atrocities against the Armenians to reassure his followers that no one would care if he exterminated the Jewish people.
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