For. t Is only be remembering past horrors that we wt inot allow them to be repeated. As many of my colleagues know. 1.5 million Armenians were subjected to this centurys first systematic extermination based on their ethnity. something we know all to commonly now as genocide. Between 1915 end 1923. the Ottoman empire Implemented a deliberate pokly of deporting. torturing. starving and massacring Armenians throughout the lands under their rule. Many of the Armenian survivors and those deported emigrated to the United States. At that time. the United States condemned the brutal acts of the Ottoman Empire and even provided humanitarian assistance to Survivors. in the largest relief effort ever organized by out country. Today. there are those that refuse to recognize the sins of the past--despite the overwhelming evidence of the Armenian Genocide.
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