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Genocide Persuasive Speech

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I am writing to you today to express my disappointment with the United States Government, specifically around the Armenian Massacre. I along with many other citizens of this country, believe that it is unjust to not acknowledge this mass killing for what it is, a genocide. The United States is home to roughly 1,400,000 people of Armenian descent, giving us a greater population of Armenians than most countries. Countries with half the Armenian population as us, have no trouble acknowledging what happened in 1915-1917 as a genocide, then why do we? A genocide is described as “the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation.” This event falls under that definition without a smidgen of

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