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    THE KARDASHIANS AND POPE FRANCIS BRING ARMENIAN 'GENOCIDE' BACK TO FOCUS AFTER A CENTURY

    International Business Times AU
    April 14 2015

    By Honey George

    IN PHOTO U.S. television personality Kim Kardashian (L) and her
    sister Khloe Kardashian (C) attend a flower laying ceremony at the
    Tsitsernakaberd Armenian Genocide Memorial Museum in Yerevan April 10,
    2015. Kim Kardashian, visiting her ancestors' homeland of Armenia,
    placed flowers on Friday at a memorial to the 1915 mass killings of
    Armenians by Ottoman soldiers. REUTERS/Vahan Stepanyan

    The century old Armenian genocide is back into focus. Kim Kardashian
    has brought this small landlocked country South of the Caucasus
    into prominence. Kardashians with their media savvy have brought the
    much-wanted focus to the upcoming Genocide Remembrance day on April 24,
    2015. Pope Francis also referred to the Armenian Massacre as Genocide
    resulting in strong protests from Turkey.

    The Armenian Genocide has not been hogging the limelight in spite
    of the UN recognition due to efforts by Turkey which disputes such
    claims. Most of the Armenian genocide descendants have kept the issue
    alive but have not been able to get international recognition as
    the Rwandan massacre or the Holocaust. Hanush Hakobyan, the Minister
    for the Armenian Diaspora feels that the Kardashians would help in
    getting better press for the country. "Majority of the people do not
    know where Armenia is. If Kim Kardashian writes or says anything it
    would be amazing PR," he said.

    For the majority of the people in this conservative nation, the
    Kardashians were a world away. However, today frenzied crowd followed
    every move of Kim and Khloe as they were accompanied by Kim's Husband,
    rapper Kanye West and their daughter North. Local media have displayed
    pictures of Kim and Khloe Kardashian paying their tributes at the
    Genocide memorial on Friday.

    Pope Francis referencing the 2001 declaration of Pope John Paul put
    the Armenian Genocide on par with Holocaust and Stalinist massacres.

    According to CNN, the pope said, "Our Human family has lived through
    three unprecedented tragedies and the first genocide of the 20th
    century struck the Armenian people." Turkey has lodged a strong
    protest and has summoned its ambassador for "consultations" after
    the comments by the Pope.

    The massacre of Armenian Christians during the end of First World War
    is considered to be the first Genocide of the twentieth century. The
    United Nations unanimously passed the convention on the Prevention
    and Punishment of Crime of Genocide in 1948 with the massacres in
    Armenia as the template. Turkey, on the other hand, dismisses the
    allegations of massacres and continue to hold the position that both
    Armenians and Turkish Muslims were killed in a communal flare-up.

    http://au.ibtimes.com/kardashians-pope-francis-bring-armenian-genocide-back-focus-after-century-1438786

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