Saturday, April 24, 2021

April 24, 1915

 Today marks the day the Armenian Genocide began in 1915.

We post this to commemorate and remember this day and the many victims lost over 100 years ago during this Genocide Awareness month:

Armenian refugees on the deck of a French cruiser that rescued them in 1915 during the massacre of the Armenian populations in the Ottoman Empire.

Photo 12/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

For more information, please visit the npr links below:

https://www.npr.org/2021/04/24/990292454/biden-calls-slaughter-of-armenians-a-genocide-posing-test-for-u-s-ties-with-turk


https://www.npr.org/2021/04/23/989915018/what-it-means-for-the-u-s-to-call-the-atrocities-against-armenians-genocide

No comments:

Post a Comment

Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.

Wednesday February 2, 2022