[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5376]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    ANNIVERSARY OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

  (Mr. POLIS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in solemn recognition of the 
100-year anniversary of the genocide of over 1 million Armenians at the 
hands of the Ottoman Turks.
  The Armenian genocide began April 24, 1915, when 250 Armenian 
intellectuals and community leaders were arrested. By 1918, between 
800,000 and 1.5 million Armenians had disappeared, been killed through 
massacres, or subjected to forced labor and death marches in the 
desert.
  The Armenian genocide joins other great human tragedies of the 20th 
century, including the Holocaust perpetuated by Nazi Germany against 
Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, Christians, and political opponents; the 
massacre of the Tutsis in the Rwandan genocide; the Khmer Rouge; and 
Joseph Stalin's mass murders.
  I rise today to remember those whose lives perished in the Armenian 
genocide and to recognize the Armenian Americans in their ongoing quest 
to ensure that those who perished are remembered for their loss of life 
in one of the most tragic genocides of the 20th century.

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