WEST HOLLYWOOD REMEMBERS ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

CBS2 TV, CA
April 24 2006

(CBS) WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. Flags will fly at half-staff in West
Hollywood Monday to honor Armenian victims of genocide.

Monday is the 91st anniversary of what many Armenians consider the
start of the genocide, when Turkish authorities arrested 200 Armenian
community leaders.

An estimated 1.5 million Armenians died between 1915 and 1923 in the
waning days of Turkey’s Ottoman Empire.

The Turkish government maintains allegations of genocide have never
been proven.

“Armenian allegations of genocide have never been historically or
legally substantiated,” Turkish Ambassador Nabi Sensoy said in response
to the Public Broadcasting Service’s “Armenian Genocide” documentary.

The West Hollywood City Council has passed a resolution “condemning
the human rights violations of the Turkish government,” according to
City Councilman Jeffrey Prang’s office. The resolution was introduced
by Prang and Councilwoman Abbe Land.