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This Concurrent Resolution acknowledges the historical genocide committed against Assyrians between 1915 and 1933, a period marked by mass killings and persecution by Ottoman Turks and later by the Iraqi army and associated forces, and it urges the governments of Turkey and Iraq to officially recognize these atrocities. The resolution emphasizes the importance of acknowledging such historical events to prevent future violence and to allow scholars access to historical records, noting that the Assyrian genocide was part of a broader campaign against Christian minorities and has largely been denied by the involved governments. The term "genocide" refers to the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, ethnic, or religious group.