Turkey was guilty of attempted genocide, and should be held to account

I fail to see why this resolution concerning the events of 1915 to 1923 should be of paramount importance.

It is totally honorable and correct that the Armenian annihilation be recorded truthfully, as a historical event. But since when is our Congress' foremost role being the paper of record for History?

Why this event, instead of the slaughter of the Tibetans by the Chinese, murdering monks in their tens of thousands in 1959? Or the slaughter of Buddhists throughout eastern India and Europe by the Muslim hordes in th eoriginal Jihad? Or the slaughter of tens of thousands of Sioux, Shawnee, Mohican, Nez Perce, Pawnee, Shoshone, Seminole, Blackfoot and Sioux by the United States citizenry and Army just a few decades earlier? What is it about this time and place that makes this issue salient? I don't get it.

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