[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 66 (Thursday, April 24, 2008)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E725]
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                   COMMEMORATION OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

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                           HON. PETER T. KING

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, April 24, 2008

  Mr. KING of New York. Madam Speaker, today I rise to mark the 
anniversary of the Armenian genocide which began on this date ninety-
three years ago. From 1915-1923 the Ottoman Empire carried out the 
deportation of approximately 2 million Armenian men, women, and 
children from their homeland of which 1.5 million were killed. And to 
this day, neither the Ottoman nor Turkish governments have been held to 
account for their involvement.
  The 20th century witnessed some of the worst violence and atrocities 
in history: the attempted extermination of the Jewish people during the 
Holocaust, Tutsis slaughtering Hutus in Rwanda, Stalin's campaign of 
mass murder and starvation, the killing fields of Cambodia, and, of 
course, the Armenian genocide. Millions upon millions of innocent 
people were killed solely because of the color of their skin, the tribe 
they belonged to, or the religion they practiced.
  As you know, too often in the past the world has stood by or looked 
the other way when genocide was taking place. And now we see it 
happening once again in Darfur. We most stop this horrible violence 
taking place in Sudan at once and make sure genocide is never repeated 
anywhere around the world. The call of ``never again'' must not just be 
exclaimed but rather acted upon.

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