Mississippi becomes 50th U.S. state to recognize Armenian Genocide

YEREVAN, May 6. /ARKA/. Mississippi has become the 50th and the last U.S. state to recognize the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire, the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) reported.

It said also that Governor Tate Reeves has proclaimed April as Genocide Awareness and Prevention Month.

U.S. President Joe Biden recognized last year the World War I-era mass killings of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire as genocide after it was recognized by the House of Representatives and Senate. 

In 1915-1923, Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire were subjected to unprecedented mass atrocities - brutal killings, violence and forcible displacement, which were pre-planned and implemented by the Government of Young Turks.

Around 1.5 million men and women, elderly and children were murdered just because they were Armenians, and hundreds of thousands were deprived of their economic, educational and spiritual property.

The Armenian Genocide was the first genocide committed in the 20th by the government of Ottoman Turkey. Turkey rejects the accusation of massacres and the killing of one and a half million Armenians during World War I. The Armenian Genocide is recognized by many countries, particularly by Uruguay, Russia, France, Lithuania, the U.S., as well as by the parliaments of Greece, Cyprus, Argentina, Belgium, Wales, National Council of Switzerland, Common House of Canada, Poland and many other countries. ---0--