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Rhode Island designates April as Holocaust and Genocide Awareness Month

Rhode Island designates April as Holocaust and Genocide Awareness Month
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Former Cranston Mayor Steve Laffey brought his campaign to make Americans aware “we are leaving no future for our children” to the Ocean State Friday. His Rhode Island stop …

Recognition of Armenian Genocide holds significant meaning for local community

President Biden’s recognition comes 106 years after massacre RHODE ISLAND — The acknowledgment was far overdue, but President Joe Biden’s long awaited recognition of the Armenian Genocide carries significant meaning for the local Armenian community.  On April 24 — Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day — Biden became the first United States President to officially recognize the massacre of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire as genocide.  The recognition comes 106 year later.  For the Armenian National Committee of Rhode Island Co-Chair Stephen Mesrobian, the long awaited recognition brought on a tidal wave of emotions, as well as tears.  “I started thinking about my grandmother, who survived a deportation march through the Syrian Desert, and managed to make her way, eventually, from what was Armenia, or the Ottoman Empire, to Damascus, Syria, to Marcé, France and then Providence, Rhode Island,” Mesrobian said. 

Finally : For RI Armenians, Biden s acknowledgment of genocide means something more

Finally : For RI Armenians, Biden s acknowledgment of genocide means something more Donita Naylor, The Providence Journal © Bob Breidenbach, The Providence Journal Hrag Arakelian, 33, visits the Armenian Monument within the North Burial Ground in Providence. PROVIDENCE  President Biden s deliberate use of a single word on Saturday, April 24, Armenian Remembrance Day, gave Armenians around the world something they have dearly wanted for a century. By using the word, genocide which Turkey has demanded its allies never utter in connection with 1 million to 1.5 million Armenians killed from 1915 to 1923    Biden stepped across a line in the sand. No U.S. president except Ronald Reagan has taken that step.

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