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Summary: After decades of agonizing, a U.S. president has called the massacre and deportation of the Ottoman Armenians in 1915 and 1916 a genocide. Does it make a difference, and what happens next?
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U.S. President Joe Biden’s dignified statement honoring the more than 1 million Armenians who died in 1915 and 1916 in the Ottoman Empire differed from those of his predecessors only in the use of one word: “genocide.”
The first thing to say is how much this means to Armenian Americans whose grandparents died in the slaughter in eastern Anatolia during those years. The Armenian diaspora after all
VIEW GALLERY: Armenia Alliance kicks off election efforts
An election alliance headed by Armenia’s former president Robert Kocharian and including the Armenian Revolutionary Federation and the newly-established “Reborn Armenia” Party kicked off its campaign on Sunday with an official ceremony where a declaration was signed between the parties. The event was followed by a rally at Yerevan’s Freedom Square where thousands of supporters cheered on the alliance, which hopes to garner seats during the upcoming June snap elections in Armenia.
The political alliance held its first public event at Yerevan’s Grand Hotel, where Kocharian explained the genesis of the alliance with the ARF and the Reborn Armenia parties.