Simplify the following text for a Grade 7 native English-speaking person.
Original: In the interview , Pamuk said , `` Thirty thousand Kurds , and a million Armenians were killed in these lands and nobody dares to talk about it . ''
Simplified: In the interview , Pamuk stated , `` Thirty thousand Kurds have been killed here , and a million Armenians . And almost nobody dares to mention that .