I rise today in support of a resolution introduced by Senator RICHARD DURBIN. calling on the President to recognize the Armenian Genocide. Specifically. this resolution would: encourage the President to incorporate the memory and lessons of the Armenian Genocide into the foreign policies of the United States. and. urge the President to accurately portray this terrible episode as "genocide" in his annual statement. Between 1915 and 1923. as many as 1.5 million Armenians perished and 500.000 were exiled by the Ottoman government in a systematic campaign of murder. deportation. and forced starvation. Ninetytwo years later. nearly all of the survivors are no longer with us. Yet their solemn voices still echo. urging us to remember them and work to ensure that their suffering was not in vain.
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