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US Cong adopts resolution recognizing Armenian genocide

Last Updated 13 December 2019, 05:44 IST

The US Congress on Thursday formally recognized the 1915-1917 murder of up to 1.5 million Armenians as genocide.

The Senate's passage of the repeatedly stalled resolution is expected to anger Turkey, which denies there was a genocidal mass murder, insisting the Armenians died as a result of World War I.

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(Published 13 December 2019, 04:01 IST)

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