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U.S. announces recognition of historic tragedy on 106
th anniversary of its start
U.S. president Joe Biden’s historic declaration last Saturday that the Ottoman Empire’s systematic killing and deportation of 1.5 million Armenians in the early 20
th century was a genocide came just a few hours before Montreal-area Armenians gathered at the Armenian monument on the edge of Autoroute 440 in Laval to mark Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day.
Official U.S. position
The mid-afternoon event drew not only people of all ages from the Armenian community, but also many elected officials from the federal, provincial and municipal governments.
Biden’s declaration, which now reflects the official U.S. government position, came after five successive U.S. presidents danced for decades around the Armenian issue, while specifically avoiding use of the word “genocide.”
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The US, under the Biden administration, is making progress in tackling the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic with millions of vaccine doses having already been administered. Joe Biden is now determined to send help to other countries like India, as it tackles a spike in coronavirus cases.
Biden took to social media to give his assurance that the US would be sending assistance to India as it faces a spike in COVID-19 cases. Biden cited India’s assistance to the US in 2020, when it shipped 50 million tablets of hydroxychloroquine under the Trump administration, as Donald Trump touted it as a possible cure. Over the weekend, the US also announced that it will be sending the raw material required for India’s manufacturing of the Covishield vaccine.
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Note: Soon after this article was published, President Biden became the first sitting U.S. president formally to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide. Ramifications of this will be discussed in another article by Mr. Ibrahim later this week. April 24 was Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day, marking 106 years since the start of the Armenian Genocide, when the Ottoman Turks massacred approximately 1.5 million Armenians during World War I. Most objective historians who have examined the topic unequivocally agree that it was a deliberate, calculated genocide. According to the Genocide Education Project: More than one million Armenians perished as the result of execution, starvation, disease, the harsh environment, and physical abuse. A people who lived in eastern Turkey for nearly 3,000 years [more than double the amount of time the invading Islamic Turks had occupied Anatolia, now known as “Turkey”] lost its homeland and was profoundly decimated in the first large