President. once again I join my colleagues in pausing to reflect upon. and remember the victims of. this centurys first example of the horrendous crime of genocide. the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire. April 24. 1995. marked the 80th anniversary of the beginning of this tragedy. On that day in 1915. some 200 Armenian religious. political. and intellectual leaders were arrested in Constantinople and exiled or taken to the interior and executed. For the next several years. Armenians were systematically expelled and deported. Some were killed and others left to die of deprivation. When the horror ended in 1923. 1.5 million Armenians had perished and another 500.000 had fled their homeland.
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