President Joe Biden recognized the Armenian genocide on Saturday. On May 7, 2015, President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan, then-Vice President Biden and then-Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power attend the National Commemoration of the Armenian Genocide Centennial Ecumenical Service at Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.
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WASHINGTON President Joe Biden on Saturday made good on a campaign pledge when he acknowledged that the mass slaughter of Armenians during the Ottoman era that started 106 years ago was genocide.
U.S. presidents have been reluctant to use the word genocide a powerful, particular term invented in 1944 after the Holocaust by Raphael Lemkin, a Polish-Jewish lawyer who moved to the U.S. two years before.
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Samantha Power knows what it’s like to take risks. President Joe Biden’s new pick for a post on his National Security Council, Samantha started out as a war correspondent in her early twenties, reporting from the Balkans. Later, she spoke out against the way governments handle genocide in her Pulitzer Prize-winning book
A Problem From Hell a book that caught Barack Obama’s attention when he was Senator. Samantha ended up working for Obama, first in the Senate, then in the White House, finally serving as U.N. Ambassador in Obama’s second term. But as she writes in her memoir,
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Power is "a world-renowned voice of conscience and moral clarity," President-elect Joe Biden said of the former U.N. ambassador. The post will be elevated to become a National Security Council member.