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OBAMA MARKS ANNIVERSARY OF ARMENIAN KILLINGS, BUT STILL STOPS SHORT OF CALLING THEM GENOCIDE
Victoria Times Colonist, BC, Canada
April 24 2013
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama is again avoiding the term
"genocide" in marking the anniversary of the massacres of Armenians
nearly a century ago.
Obama called the killings one of the worst atrocities of the 20th
century. He used the same carefully parsed phrasing as in previous
years.
As a candidate for president, Obama vowed to recognize the killings
as genocide when in office. But since his election, Obama has declined
to use the word amid furious resistance from Turkey, a key NATO ally.
Most historians see the killings as the first genocide of the 20th
century. They estimate that about 1.5 million Armenians died. However,
Turkish leaders reject the term. They say that figures are inflated and
that there were deaths on both sides as the Ottoman Empire collapsed.
http://www.timescolonist.com/entertainment/obama-marks-anniversary-of-armenian-killings-but-still-stops-short-of-calling-them-genocide-1.117996
Victoria Times Colonist, BC, Canada
April 24 2013
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama is again avoiding the term
"genocide" in marking the anniversary of the massacres of Armenians
nearly a century ago.
Obama called the killings one of the worst atrocities of the 20th
century. He used the same carefully parsed phrasing as in previous
years.
As a candidate for president, Obama vowed to recognize the killings
as genocide when in office. But since his election, Obama has declined
to use the word amid furious resistance from Turkey, a key NATO ally.
Most historians see the killings as the first genocide of the 20th
century. They estimate that about 1.5 million Armenians died. However,
Turkish leaders reject the term. They say that figures are inflated and
that there were deaths on both sides as the Ottoman Empire collapsed.
http://www.timescolonist.com/entertainment/obama-marks-anniversary-of-armenian-killings-but-still-stops-short-of-calling-them-genocide-1.117996