Serj Tankian Praises President Biden For Acknowledging Armenian Genocide
Serj Tankian has publicly applauded U.S. President Joe Biden for breaking with precedent and officially recognising the Armenian Genocide of 1915.
On Saturday, the Democratic leader marked Armenian Remembrance Day by issuing a statement remembering the estimated 1.5 million people who are believed to have been murdered or displaced by Ottoman Empire leaders.
As such, Biden became the first sitting president to refer to the mass killings as “genocide”, 18 months after members of the U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution formally acknowledging the tragedy – even though Turkish government officials continue to deny it ever happened.