[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 57 (Thursday, April 19, 2012)]
[House]
[Page H1980]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    ANNIVERSARY OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

  (Mr. DOLD asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DOLD. Madam Speaker, about 97 years ago, the government of the 
Ottoman Empire killed over 1.5 million people during the Armenian 
genocide. The Turkish state has never accepted responsibility for the 
acts of its predecessor government and maintains that the genocide 
never took place.
  For the past 90 years, the Armenian people have sought justice, yet 
the Turkish Government has continued to actively obstruct any attempt 
to recognize what has happened to the Armenian people.
  The United States can help bring closure to this longstanding moral 
issue by recognizing the Armenian genocide. That's why I'm proud to be 
a sponsor of House Resolution 304, which would formally recognize this 
atrocity. To date, 88 Members of this body have joined me in support of 
the resolution.
  I urge all of my other colleagues to support what is a very important 
resolution.
  If we do nothing, the victims of this horrible genocide may be 
forgotten. We cannot allow that to happen.

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