Rep. Adam Schiff spoke in support of the resolution to recognize the Armenian Genocide put to vote at the House of Representatives. Schiff said that it is more than ever the right time to recognize the Armenian Genocide, when the Kurds flee Turkish bombs in Syria.
"The facts of the genocide are horrific, and undisputed by historians. They were recorded by American diplomats serving in the Ottoman Empire at the time, who bore witness in official cables to the annihilation of the Armenian population in the Ottoman Empire, a crime that at the time had no name. And though it lacked a name, there was no doubt in the observers of the time that they were witnessing a crime on an industrial scale. To deny genocide is profane. It is a 'double killing'," said the Congressman, adding that only decades later that Rafael Lemkin, a Holocaust survivor, coined the term “genocide” to describe the atrocities that had been visited upon the Jews as well as the Armenians.
