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Inside America’s Long Handwringing Over the Armenian Genocide
A veteran diplomat lays out why previous administrations chose not to make the declaration and why Biden’s choice is now the right one.
Armenian honor guards attend a memorial service at the monument to the victims of mass killings by Ottoman Turks, to commemorate the 106th anniversary of the massacre, in Yerevan, Armenia, on Saturday. | Grigor Yepremyan/PAN Photo via AP
By DANIEL FRIED
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Daniel Fried is a distinguished fellow at the Atlantic Council.
For Armenians around the world, April 24 is known as Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day, a day to recall and mourn the victims of the massacre genocide in fact perpetuated by the Ottoman Empire against its ethnic Armenian citizens, starting in 1915. For eight years, first in the Bush administration, then in the Obama administration, I helped draft the U.S. government’s annual statements on that remembrance, none of which used the word “g
Inside America s Long Handwringing Over the Armenian Genocide
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