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    US Official News
    February 28, 2014 Friday

    Washington: HON. ANNA G. ESHOO OF CALIFORNIA IN THE HOUSE OF
    REPRESENTATIVES Thursday, February 27, 2014

    Washington

    The Library of Congress, The Government of USA has issued the following Speech:

    Ms. ESHOO. Mr. Speaker, the 27th of February marks the 26th
    anniversary of the horrific attack against Armenians in the town of
    Sumgait in Soviet Azerbaijan. Dozens of Armenians were killed and
    hundreds more were wounded. During the pogrom, Armenian women and
    children were raped, people were set on fire and beaten to death,
    while police stood by unwilling or unable to intervene.

    The violence touched off a broader attack against Azerbaijan's ethnic
    Armenians, ultimately resulting in a war with Nagorno-Karabakh in
    which tens of thousands of people were killed. The conflict remains
    unresolved today and the military blockade of the Nagorno-Karabakh
    Republic continues. The pogroms precipitated a massive refugee
    situation displacing hundreds of thousands of people, virtually
    eliminating Azerbaijan's once-significant Armenian population.

    Mr. Speaker, as people of conscience, this is a remembrance we must
    all engage in. For me, it is also a very personal remembrance. My own
    family fled the slaughter of the Armenian Genocide under the Ottomans,
    and when we learned of the massacres against Armenians in 1988, we saw
    history repeating itself. These vicious acts of murder, targeted at
    ethnic groups, must be forcefully condemned whenever and wherever we
    see them.

    Without our recognition and our forceful condemnation, the cycle of
    violence will continue. Even today, Christians and other minority
    groups are being driven from Syria by extremists, and the once large
    and diverse ethnic mosaic there is all but eradicated. Without our
    attention and action by the world community, there will be no end in
    sight.

    Today, Mr. Speaker, let us remember the Armenians who lost their lives
    in Azerbaijan 26 years ago. And then let us take up the work that our
    principles demand of us, standing united against ethnic violence,
    discrimination, extremism and brutality, wherever we find it.

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