George Mitchell: “Today the Senate honors the memory of 1\1/2\ million Armenians murdered between 1915 and 1923. Each year we stop to…”

“Today the Senate honors the memory of 1\1/2\ million Armenians murdered between 1915 and 1923. Each year we stop to reflect on this heinous crime and remember it with the hope that no future generation will be subjected to such a cruel fate. The massacre of the Armenians was not the last such attempt in this century, rather it was one of many. The 79th anniversary of one people's attempt to eliminate another is especially fitting because it reminds us that the continuing ethnic cleansing in Bosnia and the slaughter in Rwanda are not isolated phenomena and should not be casually dismissed. We condemn genocide everywhere and must remain vigilant of renewed efforts to annihilate a race, a people, or a tribe. ____________________”