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George W. Bush: “Today, we commemorate an appalling tragedy of the 20th century, the massacre of as many as 1.5 million Armenians through…”

On the recordApril 23, 2002
Today, we commemorate an appalling tragedy of the 20th century, the massacre of as many as 1.5 million Armenians through forced exile and murder at the end of the Ottoman Empire.
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George W. Bush
Republican · Texas

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Message on the Observance of Armenian Remembrance Day

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