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May 1915 Triple Entente declaration
Declaration condemning the Armenian Genocide / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
On 24 May 1915, on the initiative of Russia, the Triple Entente—Russia, France, and the United Kingdom—issued a declaration condemning the ongoing Armenian genocide carried out in the Ottoman Empire and threatening to hold the perpetrators accountable.[1] This was the first use of the phrase "crimes against humanity" in international diplomacy,[2][3] which later became a category of international criminal law after World War II.[4]
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