My class, along with million forty-two U.S states and a growing number of Turkish citizens, are pleading for you to authorize the "Armenian Massacres" to be recognized as "The Armenian Genocide." What Pope Francis claims to be, "the first genocide of the twentieth century" was a three year event, commencing on April 24 1915, was the murder, torture and implantation of fear for all Armenians under Ottoman rule, due to their race and religious preferences. Victimized under appalling circumstances, Armenians were tortured, raped, beaten, killed and mentally scared. However, America has yet to validate their immense trauma with the recognition it deserves by classifying it to be a genocide, instead substituting it to be a mere massacre that wasn't