Armenian Genocide 100th Anniversary Protest March - Los Angeles

Armenian Genocide 100th Anniversary
 Protest March - Los Angeles

According to the Armenian Genocide Committee, a coalition including nearly 20 churches and groups that organize the march.Marchers and their supporters are calling for the U.S. and Turkey to recognize as genocide the killing of as many as 1.5 million Armenians under the Ottoman Empire a century ago. Turkey denies the killings were an orchestrated genocide, saying fewer died and that the deaths should be considered in the context of the global tumult of World War I. Scholars, on the other hand, have said the killings were an atrocious precursor to later genocides such as the Holocaust.

Marchers gather for the Unified Young Armenians' march in Hollywood on April 24, 2017. (Credit: KTLA)In keeping with past presidential administrations, President Donald Trump on Monday issued a statement on the deaths but declined to label the killings with the term "genocide," The Hill reported.“Today, we remember and honor the memory of those who suffered during the Meds Yeghern, one of the worst mass atrocities of the 20th century,” Trump said, according to The Hill. “I join the Armenian community in America and around the world in mourning the loss of innocent lives and the suffering endured by so many.Schiff, who has sponsored a resolution to recognize the Armenian genocide at a federal level, said that Trump's statement was "disappointing.""President Trump now joins a long line of both Republican and Democratic Presidents unwilling to confront Turkey, and by refusing to do so, he has made the United States once again a party to its campaign of denial," Schiff said in a statement. "How can we speak with the moral clarity we must about the genocidal campaign by ISIS against religious minorities in Syria and Iraq, if we are unwilling to condemn the first genocide of the last century?"President Barack Obama had promised to recognize the genocide as such while he campaigned, but never did so in office, according to The Hill.

Thousands Marched
 Hollywood
 2015


100th Anniversary 
Armenian genocide. 


(Credit: Genaro Molina)
( Los Angeles Times)

Marchers for the

 Unified Young Armenians'

 March in Hollywood 

 April 24, 2017. (Credit: KTLA)