President. I rise to commemorate the 84th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. This weekend. members of Armenian communities around the world will gather together to remember the spring morning of April 24. 1915. when the Ottoman Empire and the successor Turkish nationalist regime began a brutal policy of deportation and murder. Over the next eight years. 1.5 million Armenians would be massacred at the hands of the Turks and another 500.000 would have their property confiscated and be driven from their homeland. Despite having already undergone such terrible persecution and hardship. the people of the Armenian Republic still suffer today.
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