U.S. Congress Recognizes Armenian Killings As Genocide December 12, 2019 at 2:00 pm Updated: February 1st, 2021 at 1:57 pm News Armenian News Tweet Share Reddit +1 Pocket LinkedIn The U.S. Senate has unanimously passed a resolution recognizing the mass killing of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire a century ago as genocide, a move Armenia’s prime minister hailed as a “victory of justice and truth.”