KCRW Reports
House vote on Armenian Genocide a somber milestone in Glendale
This week, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution officially recognizing the Armenian Genocide. For the diaspora, the decision is both long-overdue and bittersweet.
For the first time in U.S. history, a chamber of Congress has passed a resolution officially recognizing the Armenian Genocide, when roughly 1.5 million Armenians died at the hands of the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. For the diaspora, the decision is a long-overdue milestone. But it is also bittersweet. KCRW's Benjamin Gottlieb spoke with Shant Sahakian, who heads up the future Armenian American Museum in Glendale about the Armenian diaspora's nuanced reaction to the House vote.