Congressman Brad Sherman (D-CA), Senior Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and Member of the Congressional Armenia Caucus, spoke passionately on the House Floor claiming now is the time to finally recognize the Armenian Genocide.
After decades of struggle, the House of Representatives will finally recognize the Armenian Genocide, Rep. Sherman said.
“Today is a great day because after decades of struggle, this house will recognize the Armenian genocide. Just in time to be viewed by the last survivors of the first genocide of the 20th century,” he stated.
” It is time that we recognize the genocide because genocide denial is the last act of the genocide. First you obliterate a people. Then, you seek to obliterate their memory. Finally, you seek to obliterate the memory of the obliteration. But genocide denial is also the first step in the next genocide,” he stated.
