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By Michael W. Chapman | April 27, 2021 | 3:56pm EDT
President Joe Biden (Getty Images)
(CNS News) On Apr. 24, President Joe Biden issued a statement in honor of Armenian Remembrance Day, an official acknowledgement of the Ottoman Turks genocide of the Armenians, which occurred in the early 20th century and killed an estimated 1.5 million Armenians, mostly all of whom were Christians. Armenia first declared itself a Christian nation in the year A.D. 301.
Biden is the first U.S. president to issue an official statement on the Armenian genocide. In 1981, then-President Ronald Reagan referred to the genocide of the Armenians in a speech commemorating the liberation of the Nazi death camps.
The Tablet April 26, 2021
A woman wearing a protective mask prays inside a church in Yerevan, Armenia, Nov. 8, 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Every year, on April 24, Armenians honor as many as 1.5 million ethnic Armenians who were killed by Ottoman Turk soldiers between 1915 and 1923 during the breakup of the Ottoman Empire. (Photo: CNS/Artem Mikryukov, Reuters)
By Engy Magdy, Special to The Tablet
YEREVAN, Armenia Armenia has a rich history. It begins with the story of Noah and Noah’s Ark, which was anchored over Mount Ararat. The surrounding lands make up Greater Armenia, which witnessed the slaughter of millions by the Ottomans and the demolition of churches by the Communists.
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The Armenians of the Ottoman Empire experienced calamity of the greatest degree during World War I. Many males, including young men and boys, were executed outright, whilst women, children and the elderly were deported to barren lands in Iraq and Syria.
Those deported were subjected to every manner of misery - kidnapping, rape, torture, murder and death from exposure, starvation and thirst - by every possible adversary - Ottoman gendarmes, Turkish and Kurdish irregulars, tribesmen, and the army.
Those who escaped deportation, primarily women and children, were forced to convert to Islam, as Muslim identity was considered a cornerstone of the new nation-state, Turkey. Principally perpetrated by the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP, İttihad ve Terakki Cemiyeti) elite, who largely controlled the Ottoman government at the time, these events constitute what we now know as the Armenian Genocide.
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