Biden Finally Acknowledges the Armenian Genocide and Ignores Communist Mass Murder in China and Cambodia

U.S. soldiers stand guard on the roof of the U.S. Embassy in Ankara on April 26, 2021, after the the United States closed its Ankara embassy and the consulate in Istanbul and two other cities for citizen and visa services as a precaution for April 26 and April 27. The closure came after Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan on April 26, 2021, denounced U.S. President Joe Biden's recognition of the Armenian genocide as "groundless" and harmful to bilateral ties. Adem Altan/AFP via Getty Images

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“Each year on this day,” reads an April 24 statement from the Biden White House, “we remember the lives of all those who died in the Ottoman-era Armenian genocide and recommit ourselves to preventing such an atrocity from ever again occurring.” Readers might wonder who the White House means by “we.”