Mr. Speaker. today I join with my colleagues to commemorate this day. April 24. as the day of the Armenian genocide carried out by the young Turk government of the Ottoman Empire in 1915. It was on that day in 1915 when 300 Armenian leaders. writers and thinkers were rounded up. deported and killed. and 5000 of the poorest Armenians were killed in their homes. Between 1894 and 1921 there were 1.5 million Armenians in the Ottoman Empire that were killed. and 500.000 were deported. This Armenian genocide was carried out in a tragically inhumane and systematic fashion. First. Armenians in the army were disarmed. placed into labor battalions and then killed.
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