Mr. President. I rise today to recall and to honor the 1.5 million Armenians killed by the Ottoman government between 1915 and 1923. Genocides claimed the lives of some 60 million people in the century just past. 16 million after the end of the Second World War. when we told ourselves. "Never again." The Armenian Genocide was the 20th centurys first genocide. a vicious. organized crime against humanity that included murder. deportation. torture. and slave labor. Some would ignore the Armenian victims and forget how they died. We need to fight against such forgetfulness. An Armenian named Vahram Dadrian was a survivor of the genocide and wrote about his experiences in a moving memoir.
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