US President Donald Trump;s statement on the occasion of the Day of Remembrance of the Armenian genocide.
President Trump paid tribute Monday to more than one million Armenians killed during the Ottoman Empire, but followed his predecessors in stopping short of calling the century-old killings a genocide.
Mr. Trump called the deaths “one of the worst mass atrocities of the 20th century,” with about 1.5 million Armenians “deported, massacred, or marched to their deaths” beginning in 1915.
“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,” the president said in a statement. “We must remember atrocities to prevent them from occurring again.”
