Mr. Speaker. I rise to remember the Armenian Genocide. which began 101 years ago this month. In nearly a decade of terror that followed. the leaders of the Ottoman Empire systemically exposed the Armenian people to torture. starvation. abduction. deportation. and mass killing. More than 1.5 million innocent Armenian children. women. and men were murdered. And millions more were expelled from their historic homeland. All nations and peoples have a responsibility to recognize this tragedy and the reverberations it has caused for succeeding generations. Unfortunately. the historic fact of the Armenian Genocide has all too often been obscured. downplayed. or simply rejected.
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