ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA REPLACES WORDS “ARMENIAN MASSACRES” WITH “ARMENIAN GENOCIDE”

13:55 16/04/2015 >> SOCIETY

The Encyclopædia Britannica has edited the article about the Armenian
Genocide, replacing the words “Armenian massacres” with “Armenian
Genocide.”

The article reads, in part: “Armenian Genocide, brutal campaign
conducted against the Armenian subjects of the Ottoman Empire by the
Young Turk government during World War I (1914-18).The hundreds of
thousands of deaths that occurred are the subject of intense debate
between scholars and governments. Armenians charge that the campaign
was a deliberate attempt to destroy the Armenian people and, thus,
an act of genocide. The Turkish government has resisted calls to
recognize it as such, contending that, although atrocities took place,
there was no official policy of extermination implemented against
the Armenian people as a group.”