Today, Rep. Adam Schiff (CA-29) sent a letter to President Obama urging him to properly characterize the murder of 1.5 million Armenian men, women and children as "genocide" in his statement marking the April 24 anniversary of the start of the genocide.
"Mr. President, you have always been a leader on the important issue of human rights," Rep. Schiff said. "Unfortunately, both last year and in 2009, you did not use the term 'genocide' to describe the events of 1915-23. I ask you to return to the clarity you so forcefully expressed in 2008, and stand with the ever-dwindling number of survivors, as well as the descendants of others, who survived the Armenian Genocide and continue to suffer the 'double killing' of denial, by referring to it as a genocide."
