April 24 is the Official Day of Recognition in the United States for the Armenian Genocide and on March 4, 2010 the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs has Recognized the Massacres of 1915 as ‘The Armenian Genocide’.

The Ottoman government is a pioneer and a leader in planning and successfully executing the first Genocide of the 20th. Century, the Armenian Genocide. It carried out its policy of eliminating its minority Christian Armenian population between 1915-1918. This tragedy was preceded by several massacres between 1894-1896, 1909, and then again in 1920. During the 1915 Genocide, Armenians were forced out of their homeland and into the desserts of Der El Zor, being raped, tortured and killed in masses in the process. 1.5 million lives were violently eliminated during the Turkish atrocities.
Rafael Limkin a Warsaw public prosecutor, became interested in the concept of crime, which prompted him to study the killing of Armenians in depth, and campaigned in the League of Nations to put an end to what he called (barbarity & vandalism). In 1943 he created the word Genocide from the root words genos (Greek for family, tribe, race) & cide (Latin for killing) to describe the mass killing of Armenians.
April 24th. Is the official day of commemoration of the Armenian Genocide. On that day in 1915 the Ottoman authorities arrested 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders who were eventually killed.
Armenians all around the world gather every year on April 24th. to remember, honor, reflect, and demand that the powers that be live up to its obligation and recognize its shameful and barbaric act against its citizens. The current government of Turkey still fervently denies they committed a Genocide against its Armenian minority.

Roar remembers the Armenian Genocide this April and every April. To learn about the history and bring more recognition to the Genocide visit the following sites:

www.genocideproject.net
www.twentyvoices.com
www.genocideeducation.org
www.armeniafund.org
www.armenian-genocide.org