Madam Speaker. I rise today to commemorate the 93rd anniversary of the Armenian genocide and to celebrate a people who despite murder. hardship. and betrayal have persevered. Throughout three decades in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. millions of Armenians were systematically uprooted from their homeland of three thousand years and deported or massacred. From 1894 through 1896. three hundred thousand Armenians were ruthlessly murdered. Again in 1909. thirty thousand Armenians were massacred in Cilicia. and their villages were destroyed. EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS. Vol. 154. Pt. 5 On April 24. 1915. two hundred Armenian religious. political. and intellectual leaders were arbitrarily arrested. taken to Turkey and murdered.
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