I am confident that the whole history of the human race contains no such horrible episode as this. The great massacres and persecutions of the past seem almost insignificant when compared with the sufferings of the Armenian race in 1915. The American Near East Relief Committee. a relief organization for refugees in the Middle East. raised over $102 million for Armenians both during and after the genocide. As I have said in this Chamber before. the response to the atrocities was the birth of the American international human rights movement. Official recognition of the role Americans played in confronting the Armenian Genocide over 90 years ago will reaffirm our tradition of protecting the vulnerable and inspire us to not stand by and watch as genocide occurs in our time.
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