The gesture, more symbolic than concrete, recognised that around one million Armenians were killed by Turkish Ottoman troops during those years. Behaving in a way complicit with the Turks, the Allied sailors prevented those drowning souls from boarding Allied ships. Violence against women and children is a crime. “Violence against women and children is a crime. Though it took the US a century to call genocide a genocide, the wriggle room on these issues is not as abundant as it was.

Source: Irish Examiner April 28, 2021 07:02 UTC