Congress Should Recognize the Armenian Christian Genocide

More than a century after the Ottoman Empire's systematic and deliberate destruction of millions of its Christian subjects – including Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians, Chaldeans, Syriacs, Arameans, and Maronites – the United States, under pressure from Turkey – has not officially condemned or formally commemorated this crime as a clear case of genocide. Congress will likely have a chance to correct this shameful fact this week with a vote on Armenian Genocide recogniztion. In 2007, the International Association of Genocide Scholars unanimously affirmed that: "the Ottoman campaign against Christian minorities of the Empire between 1914 and 1923 constituted a genocide against Armenians, Assyrians, and Pontian and Anatolian Greeks."