Speech #1050127299

I rise today to commemorate the first of this centurys many examples of mans inhumanity to man: the brutal suppression perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire against 1.5 million Armenian men. women. and children at the beginning of this century. On April 24. 1915. Ottoman authorities arrested 200 political. religious. and intellectual leaders of the Armenian community of Constantinople. In the eight long years that followed. the Armenian population of Asia Minor was subjected to forced privation. deportation. torture. and death. Mr. Speaker. it is important to remember this event. just as it is important to remember the suffering of millions of other victims of hatred and violence.