He then celebrated the conscientious objectors throughout history, those who stood up against genocide from within. He cited Irena Sendler and Raoul Wallenberg during the Holocaust, Paul Rusesabagina during the Rwandan genocide and Van Chhuon during the Cambodian genocide. As for the Armenian genocide, he said that “the Armenian people has not forgotten and is grateful to those Kurds and Turks who covertly saved the lives of their Armenian neighbors.”