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News | 24.04.10 | 20:56

Obama: “Devastating chapter,” but not genocide

By John Hughes
ArmeniaNow Chief Editor
In a statement issued during a weekend retreat in North Carolina, US President Barack Obama on Saturday (April 24) re-affirmed his “own view of what occurred in 1915,” but, as expected, did not use the word “genocide” on this day marked worldwide by Armenians as the startup of a genocidal campaign 95 years ago by Ottoman Turks that killed 1.5 million.

It is "a devastating chapter in the history of the Armenian people, and we must keep its memory alive in honor of those who were murdered and so that we do not repeat the grave mistakes of the past," Obama said in his statement.

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Shawna SXYZ, United States
18.05.2010 03:52
Sentenced to death decades ago, Michael Bueke, ultimately saw his last day. This morning prior to 11 am Michal Bueke was pronounced dead from lethal injection. In 1983 in Ohio he murdered 1 person, paralyzed one more, and critically injured another in 3 individual car robberies providing him the nickname, Mad Hitchhiker. After he was caught he explained that, he wanted to rob an auto to rob a bank so he could settle his lawyer fees for drug charges. A few questioned his peace of mind, and why not who would commit crimes to obtain cash to fund the defense for already committed crimes, but he was found to be sane.
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