[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 6]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages 7854-7855]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




      COMMEMORATING THE 90TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

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                     HON. JOHN J.H. ``JOE'' SCHWARZ

                              of michigan

                    in the house of representatives

                        Tuesday, April 26, 2005

  Mr. SCHWARZ of Michigan. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to join my 
colleagues in commemorating the 90th anniversary of the Armenian 
Genocide.
  Beginning on April 24, 1915, the Armenian Genocide was a horrific act 
of mass violence that should be remembered in infamy as one of the most 
egregious violations of human rights to ever befall this planet.
  It is altogether fitting that we should commemorate this horrible 
tragedy, and that we should take note of a further outrage: that the 
government of Turkey, as well as that of these United States, to this 
day--90 years after the crimes began--has failed to recognize the 
slaughter for what it was: genocide.
  We are speaking of the murder of one-and-a-half million people.
  Torture, starvation, death marches, the killing of innocent 
civilians--all crimes against humanity and completely deserving of the 
world's condemnation.
  Today, I join my colleagues from the Congressional Caucus on Armenian 
Issues in calling upon the administration and the government of Turkey 
to formally recognize the Armenian genocide. Its time has come.

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