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    SOUTHERN CALIFORNIANS REMEMBER THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

    Los Angeles Times, CA
    April 24 2008

    Many of Southern California's more than 300,000 Armenians will today
    gather at memorial services, protests and other events to mark the
    93rd anniversary of the Armenian genocide. The striped Armenian flag
    was already seen fluttering from cars earlier this week as local
    Armenians prepared for the emotional and controversial observance of
    the more than million people who died under Ottoman rule in what is
    now modern Turkey.

    The anniversary has long been denounced by many Turks and others,
    who dispute the larger number of deaths or that the genocide even
    occurred. Last year, the most recent effort to have the U.S. government
    officially recognize the genocide triggered a bitter battle on Capitol
    Hill. The animosity lives on, and one of today's events includes a
    human rights protest outside the Turkish consulate.

    There are also new tensions. On Wednesday, a memorial assembly at Grant
    High School in Van Nuys lead to a shouting match between Armenian
    and Latino students. Several students were sent home and additional
    school district police officers patrol the campus for the remainder
    of the week.

    Today's memorials, however, remain a source of pride for Armenians,
    including a young generation far removed from the pain and suffering
    of nearly a century ago.

    "A lot of people ask me why we care so much, especially the
    youth because we are a few generations out from the genocide,"
    twenty-year-old Caspar Jivalagian told the Times Molly Hennessy-Fisk
    last year year. "Every Armenian we have it in us, under our skin."
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