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Under pressure from a growing group of people, the Anti-Defamation League has changed its position on whether the massacres of Armenians in the early 20th century were genocide:
http://www.adl.org/PresRele/Mise_00/5114_00.htm
There's certainly reasons to be dissatisfied with the statement, but it's a big change, which started a week or so ago in a town meeting in Watertown. The Boston Globe has been following the story. It's amazing to watch these things happen.