Results for: Genocide Prevention

April is Genocide Prevention and Awareness Month, and April 24 is Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day. In 1915, the Ottoman Turkish government instituted a systematic extermination campaign targeting ethnic Armenians and other Christian minorities within the Ottoman empire. This included Greeks, Assyrians, Chaldeans, Syriacs, Arameans and Maronites. By 1923, approximately 1.5 million Armenians were murdered and 300,000 deported. This genocide is recognized in 2019 U.S. House Resolution 296, 2019 U.S. Senate Resolution 150, and annually by President Biden.

On the 109th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide Day of Remembrance, co-founder Ruben Vardanyan has issued a global call to action. Vardanyan urges the international community to recognize the atrocities that took place 109 years ago and those that are happening again today, emphasizing the importance of preventing a second Armenian genocide.