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applegrove

(118,712 posts) Wed Apr 21, 2021, 08:03 PM Apr 2021

Biden Will Declare Atrocities Against Armenia As Genocide

Biden Will Declare Atrocities Against Armenia As Genocide

April 21, 2021 at 7:36 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 50 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2021/04/21/biden-will-declare-atrocities-against-armenia-as-genocide/

"SNIP.....

“More than a century after the Ottoman Empire’s killing of an estimated 1.5 million Armenian civilians, President Biden is preparing to declare that the atrocities were an act of genocide,” the New York Times reports.

“The action would signal that the American commitment to human rights outweighs the risk of further fraying the U.S. alliance with Turkey.”

......SNIP"

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Biden Will Declare Atrocities Against Armenia As Genocide (Original Post) applegrove Apr 2021 OP

That's huge. And long past due. Scrivener7 Apr 2021 #1

Erdoğan's gonna be unhappy... backscatter712 Apr 2021 #2

Amazing. srobertss Apr 2021 #3

"The Forty Days of Musa Dagh" is a novel describing the atrocities against the Armenians question everything Apr 2021 #4

Scrivener7

(50,957 posts)

1. That's huge. And long past due.

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Wed Apr 21, 2021, 09:19 PM

Apr 2021

backscatter712

(26,355 posts)

2. Erdoğan's gonna be unhappy...

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Wed Apr 21, 2021, 09:22 PM

Apr 2021

GOOD!

srobertss

(261 posts)

3. Amazing.

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Thu Apr 22, 2021, 04:59 AM

Apr 2021

I have been on the lookout for this since Carter was in office. Nobody else has had the nerve to do this. I am just floored. I never thought it would happen. Whew. Something in me just melted.

question everything

(47,490 posts)

4. "The Forty Days of Musa Dagh" is a novel describing the atrocities against the Armenians