WATERTOWN: PROGRAM ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
Christina Pazzanese
Boston Globe, MA
Nov 15 2007
To help sort out the Armenian genocide controversy that has been
widely debated in recent months, the World in Watertown, the town’s
former No Place for Hate Committee, the Wayside Youth Coalition,
and the Armenian National Committee of America will join to host a
program for the public on Nov. 28. The presentation and discussion
will focus on the history of the mass killings, in which up to 1.5
million Armenians were killed by Ottoman Turks between 1915 and 1923,
and its impact around the world, with Turkey disputing the death
toll and its characterization as genocide. A short film featuring
survivors will be shown. George Aghjayan and Sharistan Melkonian,
with the Armenian National Committee, as well as professor Henry
Theriault, director of the Human Rights Center at Worcester State
College, will speak. The free program will be held in the Watertown
High School auditorium from 7 to 9 p.m.
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