Staff Reporter: The Genocide Ekattar Foundation in the United States has thanked and congratulated US President Joe Biden for officially recognizing the Armenian genocide. US President Joe Biden has officially acknowledged the “indiscriminate killing” of Armenians by Ottoman Turkys during World War I. This is the first time any US president has acknowledged this.
From 1915 to 1917, about 1.5 million Armenians lost their lives in the Ottoman Empire. Biden was the first U.S. president to speak out against the recognition of ‘genocide.’
Turkey has claimed responsibility for World War I, but is reluctant to call it a “genocide.”
On April 24, 1915, hundreds of Armenian leaders and intellectuals were arrested in Constantinople (present-day Istanbul) on suspicion of being enemies of the Ottoman government. Most of them were later killed and deported. Armenians have been observing April 24 as the day of genocide. For a long time, they have been pushing for international recognition of the massacre as genocide.
Joe Biden developed close ties with the Armenian-American and Greek-American communities while he was a senator. He also promised to recognize the Armenian genocide during his presidential campaign.
However, Turkey has always said that the genocide and expulsion of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire was not genocide, but the result of the great conflict of the First World War.
On behalf of the United States, the Genocide Ekattar Foundation President Pradip Ranjan Kar and General Secretary Manjur Chowdhury. thanked and congratulated the President of the United States, Joe Biden, for this historic decision.
At the same time, they demanded that Bangladesh take effective steps like the Armenians in gaining international recognition of the genocide of 1971, including the brutal and barbaric killing of 3 million innocent people by the Pakistani aggressors in 1971 and the rape and torture of 2-4 lakh women as genocide.
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