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April 25 2014
Celebrity Author Remembers Armenian Genocide
Thursday, April 24, 2014 marked the 99 year anniversary of the start
of a genocide that led to the deaths of more than a million Armenians.
Vermonters of Armenian descent went to the state capital for
"Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day."
Social media was full of references to the event that unfolded
during World War I across the Ottoman Empire; an area now encompassing
Turkey and the Middle East.
According to New York Times best selling novelist, Chris
Bohjalian, it was widely covered in the U.S. at the time.
"I'm the grandson of survivors of the Armenian genocide. My
novel, Sandcastle Girls, is about the genocide. It's the slaughter
you know next to nothing about. Once upon a time Americans knew all
about the Armenian genocide. There were 154 articles in the New York
Times alone," said Bohjalian.
Some nations deny it ever happened, but many historians said it
ranks second only to the Holocaust in the number of dead.
http://www.wptz.com/news/vermont-new-york/burlington/celebrity-author-remembers-armenian-genocide/25664080
April 25 2014
Celebrity Author Remembers Armenian Genocide
Thursday, April 24, 2014 marked the 99 year anniversary of the start
of a genocide that led to the deaths of more than a million Armenians.
Vermonters of Armenian descent went to the state capital for
"Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day."
Social media was full of references to the event that unfolded
during World War I across the Ottoman Empire; an area now encompassing
Turkey and the Middle East.
According to New York Times best selling novelist, Chris
Bohjalian, it was widely covered in the U.S. at the time.
"I'm the grandson of survivors of the Armenian genocide. My
novel, Sandcastle Girls, is about the genocide. It's the slaughter
you know next to nothing about. Once upon a time Americans knew all
about the Armenian genocide. There were 154 articles in the New York
Times alone," said Bohjalian.
Some nations deny it ever happened, but many historians said it
ranks second only to the Holocaust in the number of dead.
http://www.wptz.com/news/vermont-new-york/burlington/celebrity-author-remembers-armenian-genocide/25664080