Biden recognizes atrocities against Armenians as genocide

about 3 years in LA Review

WILMINGTON, Del. — President Joe Biden has formally recognized that the systematic killings and deportations of hundreds of thousands of Armenians by Ottoman Empire forces in the early 20th century were “genocide” — using a term for the atrocities that his White House predecessors have avoided for decades over concerns of alienating Turkey.

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