[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 4401]
[From the U.S. 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 almost 2 million people who were killed.

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