Madam Speaker. on April 24. 1915. the Ottoman Empire set out on a campaign to exterminate the Armenian people. Between 1915 and 1923. the numbers were horrific. One and a half million Armenians were murdered and 500.000 deported from their homelands. At the end of these eight years. the Armenian population of Anatolia and Western Armenia was virtually eliminated. becoming one of the 20th centurys darkest chapters. While acknowledging the role played by the Ottoman Empire in killing Armenians. some have laid doubt to the claim of genocide. citing the subsequent deportation of the survivors as merely a movement of a people from one land to another. Henry Morgenthau. the U.S. Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire from 19131916. saw it much differently.
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