This antecedent for all subsequent 20thcentury genocides began on April 24. 1915. when the rulers of the Ottoman Empire began the systematic and ruthless extermination of the Armenian minonty in Turkey. By the end of the Terror. more than 1 5 million Armenian men. women. and children had been massacred and more than half a million others had been expelled from the homeland that their forbearers had inhabited for three millennia. Last weekend I traveled to the Kosovo war zone with other members of a bipartisan. bicameral Congressional Delegation. The official briefings were important and informative. but the visit to a refugee camp was staggering. I saw whole landscapes of misery. broad vistas of suffering. vast panoramas of despair and destruction. Yet I heard very little.