Will They Call It Genocide?
UNITED STATES / AGILITYPR.NEWS / April 13, 2021 / A century ago, the Ottoman Empire exterminated 3.75 million Christians in a mass murder often called the “Armenian Genocide." This atrocity targeted not only Armenians (1.5 million dead) but also Assyrian, Syriac and Greek minorities.
While world leaders at the time did virtually nothing to stop the genocide, current United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s great-grandfather Ali Kemal was a vocal opponent. His courageous stance may have cost him his own life.
U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson (right) and his great-grandfather Ali Kemal
The linked article below, posted by Barnabas Aid (known as Barnabas Fund outside the U.S.) details a letter written to the Prime Minister by Patrick Sookhdeo, International Director of Barnabas Aid, in which he calls on him to fomally recognize the Armenian Genocide:
Even today, world leaders are hesitant to formally recognize what happened as genocide, so as not to disturb relations with the increasingly radicalized modern-day Turkey, where it is illegal to use the term "Armenian Genocide." Recent events in and around Armenia raise the threat of a revival of the past crimes against its people. This has led to a petition to the current U.S. Presidential administration to do what has been requested in the letter to Prime Minister Johnson, as detailed here:
The Armenian Genocide | Barnabas Aid (barnabasfund.org)
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