US prepares formal acknowledgement of Armenian genocide
22 Apr, 2021 03:05 AM
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Joe Biden pledged as a candidate to recognise the Armenian genocide of 1915 to 1923, saying at the time "silence is complicity". Photo / AP
Joe Biden pledged as a candidate to recognise the Armenian genocide of 1915 to 1923, saying at the time "silence is complicity". Photo / AP
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By: Matthew Lee and Aamer Madhani
US President Joe Biden is preparing to formally acknowledge that the systematic killing and deportation of hundreds of thousands of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire in modern-day Turkey more than a century ago was genocide, according to US officials.