LA MAYOR SAYS TO ‘NEVER FORGET’ ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

KNX1070, CA
April 26 2007

LOS ANGELES, CA (AP) — LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa called for
Americans to "never forget" the deaths of up to 1.5 million Armenians
at the end of the Ottoman empire

Marking the killings yesterday, Villaraigosa said he urged "all
Angelenos to reflect not only on the vast scale and ruthlessness of
the genocide, but on the horror of the global silence under which it
took place."

Also yesterday, demonstrators marched through Hollywood and held a
rally at the Turkish Consulate on Wilshire Boulevard.

The Armenians were killed between 1915 and 1919 in what is now eastern
Turkey. The event is widely considered by scholars to be the first
genocide of the 20th Century.

Turkey denies the deaths constituted genocide, saying that the toll
has been inflated and that those killed were victims of civil war
and unrest.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress