President. I rise today to commemorate the anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. Ninetytwo years ago today. on the night of April 24. 1915. the Ottoman government launched a series of raids in which hundreds of Armenian leaders and intellectuals were arrested and subsequently deported or killed. This event marked the beginning of a systematic campaign of murder. deportation. and forced starvation. during which as many as 1.5 million Armenians perished and 500.000 were exiled by the Ottoman government. We are obliged to remember and speak about their suffering because silence about such atrocities plants the seed for another tragedy. On the eve of the 1939 Nazi invasion of Poland. seeking to allay the fears of his aides.
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