Hay Dat: Armenian Americans remain committed to struggle for Genocide affirmation

United States President Barrack Obama again preferred using the Armenian expression "Meds Yeghern" (or Great Calamity) to describe the 1915 massacres and deportations of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey as he commemorated "one of the worst atrocities of the 20th century" late on Saturday. This was also the case in Obama's previous two April 24 statements as U.S. president.

Aram Hamparian, the executive director of the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA), one of the largest and most influential Armenian-American groups, said shortly before Obama's statement that Armenians did not seem to have particularly great expectations to hear the president say the word this time around after he had backpedaled on his election pledge twice before.  Read more... (372 words)

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