, the group said late MondayObama, who pledged to recognize the Armenian claims regarding the 1915 incident during his presidential campaign, refrained from using the word "genocide" while describing the events in his annual April 24 statement to mark the "day of remembrance of the Armenian deaths."
"Your use of Mets Yehern (Great Catastrophe) was an inadequate substitute for Armenian Genocide," Armenian Assembly of America Chairman Hirair Hovnanian said in the letter he sent to Obama.
"It was a regrettable retreat from the expressed promises you made as a candidate
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