President Joe Biden Becomes the First U.S. President to Declare the Death of Over 1 Million Armenians a Genocide!
AGN.News
April 24, 2021
On April 24, 1915, a day that will live in infamy, as the beginning of the mass murder of Armenians in Istanbul (then Constantinople) that then turned into genocide.
History records the events that lead to genocide. The Ottoman defeat in the Battle of Sarikamish (January 1915), was a loss blamed on Armenian treachery. Ottoman leaders took isolated indications of Armenian resistance as evidence of a nonexistent widespread conspiracy.
Facing this unfounded conspiracy, Ottoman (Turkish) soldiers disarmed their Ottoman (Turkish) Armenian counterparts and killed them all. Afterwards, Ottoman forces or soldiers systematically lead Armenians into the Syrian desert where they perished in the genocide more than a century ago.
Armenians have long wanted this designation of the massacre of their countrymen as a genocide. Today, President Joe Biden said, “The American people honor all those Armenians who perished in the genocide that began 106 years ago today.”
“Beginning on 24 April 1915 with the arrest of Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Constantinople by Ottoman (Turkish) authorities, one and a half million Armenians were deported, massacred or marched to their deaths in a campaign of extermination.”
At the orders of Talat Pasha, leader of the Committee of Union and Progress, an estimated 800,000 to 1.2 million Armenian women, children, and elderly or infirm people were sent on death marches leading to the Syrian Desert in 1915 and 1916.
President Biden called the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, on Friday, to inform him of this designation and it would be announced on the 106th anniversary of the genocide.
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