A photo from the National Archives of Norway depicts the Armenian leader Papasyan seeing what s left after the horrendous murders near Deir-ez-Zor in 1915-1916. (Image: Bodil Katharine Biørn - National Archives of Norway/Wikipedia)
Just one week prior to his 1939 invasion of Poland and the mass slaughter that followed, Adolf Hitler asked rhetorically, “Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?” Such a depraved sentiment indicates why it is so significant that President Joe Biden, this past Saturday, became the first US President to formally classify the persecution committed against the Armenian Christians in Ottoman Turkey from 1915-1923 as “genocide”.