[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 62 (Tuesday, April 29, 2014)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E625]
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                  COMMEMORATING THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

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                         HON. JOHN P. SARBANES

                              of maryland

                    in the house of representatives

                        Tuesday, April 29, 2014

  Mr. SARBANES. Mr. Speaker, on April 24th we commemorate the Armenian 
Genocide--the deportation, forced march and massacre of 1.5 million 
innocent Armenians at the hands of the Ottoman Turks nearly a century 
ago. In what has become a bitter annual ritual for Armenian-Americans 
and those who stand with them, we once again call upon the Obama 
Administration and the United States Congress to formally and 
officially recognize the Armenian Genocide as a tragic and unambiguous 
fact of history. Such recognition is critical to fortifying America's 
moral standing in the international community and, as we prepare in the 
coming year to mark the 100th anniversary of this tragedy, is long and 
painfully overdue.

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