Representative Chris Smith (R-NJ), who last year managed the passage of legislation that, for the first time ever, put the U.S. House of Representatives on record condemning the Genocide of the Armenian people in 1915, today released the following statement again condemning the Genocide in the strongest of terms, as Friday, April 24^th  marks the 105^th commemoration of the death march and slaughter of the Armenian people.  In his strong statement, Smith also rebukes the Government of Turkey’s continued denial of the genocide in the face of appalling and well-documented facts: