U.S. Congressman Adam Schiff made a speech on U.S. House Floor in Armenian language on April 24. The speech was timed to the 98th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey in early 20th century.
The congressman said that he speaks the language of the people that were subjected to annihilation by Turkey, the language of mothers that were killed with kids in their hands, the language of those few people that survived Turkish yataghan and found shelter in the USA.
Today, when nearly a century has passed since that tragedy, Turkey still denies the Genocide of Armenians, but the American people has always had the courage to look reality in the face and call the things by their real names, he said. Rep. Schiff is sure that the U.S. authorities will sooner or later follow the example of the ordinary Americans.
"We are all Armenians today," the congressman said.