Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day  recognized in Los Angeles County  

ArmInfo. The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved a motion to recognize April 24  as Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day within the county. As reported by the Pasadena Now website, the Armenian Genocide took place between 1915 and 1916, when millions of Christians in the Ottoman Empire were  displaced. According to the Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, as many as 1.2 million people were killed. Los Angeles County is  now home to the largest Armenian diaspora outside of Armenia.

Introduced by Supervisors Kathryn Barger and Hilda Solis, the motion  condemned the Turkish government for denying the genocide despite  historical evidence. The petition also made reference to alleged  ethnic cleansing efforts in recent years. In 2020, Azerbaijan  launched a military attack on the Artsakh region, followed by a  10-month blockade of the Lachin corridor. According to the motion, in  2023, over 100,000 Armenians were forcibly displaced from their  ancestral lands. Azerbaijan claimed full control over the region,  which has been in dispute between the two sides since 1918.

Note that the issue of international recognition of the Armenian  Genocide is no longer a priority for the Armenian authorities, as  Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan recently stated.