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April 25, 2013 Thursday
Washington: SPEECH OF HON. DEVIN NUNES OF CALIFORNIA IN THE HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 2013
Washington
The Library of Congress, The Government of USA has issued the following Speech:
Mr. NUNES. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to commemorate the Armenian
Genocide, one of the bloodiest, most tragic occurrences of the
twentieth century.
In 1915, the Ottoman Empire began implementing a program to
systematically exterminate its Armenian population. Committing crimes
so vast that they nearly defy belief, the Ottomans resorted to death
marches, human burnings, mass starvation, extermination camps, and
other outrages that still shock the human conscience. More than a
million people were slaughtered in the carnage.
It is hard to image anyone today visiting Armenia's Tzidzemagapert,
the genocide monument and memorial, without being shaken by the
experience, as I was. The site is a permanent reminder of the
horrifying depravity mankind is capable of when unshackled from any
notion of mercy or compassion.
That the Armenian people could recover from such a tragedy, and
recover from the ensuing decades of Soviet rule, to establish an
independent state in which they control their own destiny, is a
tribute to the amazing resiliency and love of freedom harbored by the
Armenian nation.
On this anniversary of the beginning of the Genocide, let us remember
and honor the victims of this terrible crime.
For more information please visit: http://thomas.loc.gov/
April 25, 2013 Thursday
Washington: SPEECH OF HON. DEVIN NUNES OF CALIFORNIA IN THE HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 2013
Washington
The Library of Congress, The Government of USA has issued the following Speech:
Mr. NUNES. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to commemorate the Armenian
Genocide, one of the bloodiest, most tragic occurrences of the
twentieth century.
In 1915, the Ottoman Empire began implementing a program to
systematically exterminate its Armenian population. Committing crimes
so vast that they nearly defy belief, the Ottomans resorted to death
marches, human burnings, mass starvation, extermination camps, and
other outrages that still shock the human conscience. More than a
million people were slaughtered in the carnage.
It is hard to image anyone today visiting Armenia's Tzidzemagapert,
the genocide monument and memorial, without being shaken by the
experience, as I was. The site is a permanent reminder of the
horrifying depravity mankind is capable of when unshackled from any
notion of mercy or compassion.
That the Armenian people could recover from such a tragedy, and
recover from the ensuing decades of Soviet rule, to establish an
independent state in which they control their own destiny, is a
tribute to the amazing resiliency and love of freedom harbored by the
Armenian nation.
On this anniversary of the beginning of the Genocide, let us remember
and honor the victims of this terrible crime.
For more information please visit: http://thomas.loc.gov/