[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 43 (Tuesday, April 19, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: April 19, 1994]
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                           ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

  Mr. MITCHELL. Mr. President, today the Senate honors the memory of 
1\1/2\ million Armenians murdered between 1915 and 1923. Each year we 
stop to reflect on this heinous crime and remember it with the hope 
that no future generation will be subjected to such a cruel fate.
  The massacre of the Armenians was not the last such attempt in this 
century, rather it was one of many. The 79th anniversary of one 
people's attempt to eliminate another is especially fitting because it 
reminds us that the continuing ethnic cleansing in Bosnia and the 
slaughter in Rwanda are not isolated phenomena and should not be 
casually dismissed. We condemn genocide everywhere and must remain 
vigilant of renewed efforts to annihilate a race, a people, or a tribe.

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