Tuesday, April 24, 2012

On Armenian Remembrance Day, Obama again avoids the word ‘Genocide=?UTF-8?B?4oCZIA==?=despite campaign promise to contrary

le=”text-align: justify; “>On the fourth Armenian Remembrance Day of his presidency, President Obama has for the fourth time in a row broken his promise to the Armenian community to use the word “genocide” in describing what happened at the hands of the Turks roughly a century ago, ABCNews reports.

As a senator, and then as a presidential candidate, Barack Obama often talked about how bold he was to call the slaughter of an estimated 1.5 million Armenians at the hands of the Ottoman Empire just what it was: a genocide.

Armenian News

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