Republican Adam Schiff Red 1,000 Names of the Victims of the Armenian Genocide

• 04.23.2015, 12:09
•  Diaspora

On April 22, Republican Adam Schiff as declared earlier, spent an hour on the House Floor to read 1,000 names of the people killed during the Armenian Genocide in 1915 by the Ottoman Turkey. The names of the people Adam Schiff read were submitted over the past two weeks to the office through social media and email, Asbarez reports.

 "In a single hour, I was only able to read the names of a mere fraction of those who were killed in the Armenian Genocide. To read all of the names of the more than 1.5 million people murdered at the time, would take many weeks, and I hope that the recitation of the victims will help call attention to the magnitude of the crime. A name, unlike a number, is no abstraction – each was a son or daughter, a mother or father, a grandparent, an aunt or an uncle; each was a precious life," – Asbarez quotes Schiff’s words.