[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 58 (Friday, April 15, 2016)]
[House]
[Pages H1739-H1740]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
CAMBODIAN GENOCIDE REMEMBRANCE DAY
(Mr. LOWENTHAL asked and was given permission to address the House
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
Mr. LOWENTHAL. Mr. Speaker, this week the Cambodian American
community of Long Beach will observe Remembrance Day, commemorating 41
years since the end of the Cambodian genocide.
This horrific event, in which the Khmer Rouge killed approximately
1.7 million Cambodians from all walks of life, devastated Cambodia for
years, depriving the country of a generation of its best and its
brightest, and leaving a lifetime of trauma for Cambodians living in
the United States and around the world.
I have introduced H. Res. 436, along with over a dozen of my
colleagues, to ensure that we never forget the unspeakable horrors of
the genocide and honor the memory of its many victims.
Today I ask my colleagues and people across this country to join us
in coming together to remember the Cambodian genocide to commemorate
the
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almost 2 million people who were killed.
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