I want to thank my colleagues Congressmen FRANK PALLONE and JOHN PORTER for organizing this Special Order to commemorate the victims of one of the most tragic events in history. On this day in 1915. a group of distinguished Armenian leadersintellectual. political. and religiouswere arrested and brutally murdered by the Ottoman Empire. This began a long and abysmal process by which 1.5 million Armenians lost their lives. A disgraceful and inhuman process which also resulted in more than 500.000 deportations. The accounts by survivors go beyond the massive killings. there were rapes. forced slavery and the deprivation of land and homes. Unfortunately. the infringement on Armenian human rights continues today with the conflict over NagornoKarabagh.
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