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Armenian billboards put touchy topic on the road
Four striking billboards, crowded in among beer and cosmetic surgery ads along two South Florida highways, contain one sentence starkly lettered in white on a black background: "Thank you for officially recognizing the Armenian Genocide — April 24,...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Boca Raton, Politics, Palm Beach (Palm Beach, Florida), Religion and Belief
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Armenian genocide commemoration events scheduled citywide
Several events commemorating the anniversary of the Armenian genocide will be held in Glendale over the next several days. The genocide resulted in the murder of 1.5 million Armenians at the hands of the Ottoman Turks from 1915 to 1918. The main local...Tags: Human Interest, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Turkey, Hate Crimes, Genocide
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Protests follow judges' rulings in Guatemalan war crimes trial
MEXICO CITY – Contradictory court judgments in the war crimes trial of former Guatemalan dictator Gen. Efrain Rios Montt this week set off protests in Guatemala City and prompted rebukes from human rights organizations. On Friday, Judge Jazmin...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Politics, Central Intelligence Agency, Crime, Law and Justice, Judges
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Guatemala war crimes trial rulings spur protests
MEXICO CITY — Contradictory court judgments in the war crimes trial of former Guatemalan dictator Gen. Efrain Rios Montt this week set off protests in Guatemala City and prompted rebukes from human rights organizations around the world. On Friday,...
Tags: Prosecution, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Politics, Witnesses, Crime, Law and Justice
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FDR's Holocaust lapse
Responding to Rafael Medoff's Op-Ed article Sunday detailing FDR's reaction to Jews facing persecution in Nazi Germany, reader Robert Ouriel wrote in a letter published Friday that "as an American and a Jew, I found [Medoff's] criticism of Franklin D....
Tags: Judaism, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Politics, Immigration, Religion and Belief
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In Guatemala, a twist as genocide trial nears end
MEXICO CITY — On the first day of trial, a witness named Bernardo Bernal recounted how, as a 9-year-old in the spring of 1983, he hid in a stream and watched Guatemalan soldiers kill his parents and two younger brothers. On the second day of...Tags: Politics, Culture, Crime, Law and Justice, Civil Rights, Judges
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Again, Rep. Schiff urges Obama to officially recognize Armenian genocide
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank) on Wednesday once again called on President Obama to officially recognize the Armenian genocide of 1915 – a request that for years has gone unfulfilled amid political pressure from a key NATO ally, Turkey. The...
Tags: Turkey (animal), World War I (1914-1918), Adam Schiff, Barack Obama, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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He's got Armenia under his skin, and we get a guidebook
By some measures, Matthew Karanian was a Connecticut Yankee: a 34-year-old litigator in Hartford, American-born and bred. But he had a wild idea. So he took a summer off, headed for the rustic land of his ancestors, and soon found that Armenia was...
Tags: Tourism and Leisure, Russia, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Yerevan (Armenia), Turkey
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Judge rules against Turkish banks
A U.S. District Court judge has ruled that the federal court system has jurisdiction to hold Turkish banks accountable for seizing land from Armenians during the Armenian Genocide. This ruling was attached to judge Dolly M. Gee's dismissal of a...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Justice System, Turkey, Crime, Law and Justice, Judges
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Glendale school board candidates talk diversity, funding and Armenian genocide
At the first Glendale Unified school board election forum of the season Wednesday night, candidates discussed districtwide diversity, language programs and commemorating the Armenian genocide. About 20 people attended the event hosted and televised by...
Tags: Media Industry, Elections, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Teachers, Politics
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Chris Bohjalian sets love amid horror
Chris Bohjalian's novel "The Sandcastle Girls" has many traditional elements of compelling fiction — people with secrets, shocking plot twists, compulsively likable characters and a rich love story. It also describes the 1915 mass killing of...
Tags: Human Interest, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Turkey, Clubs and Associations, Authors
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Former Guatemalan dictator to stand trial on genocide charges
MEXICO CITY – Former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt will stand trial on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity, a Guatemalan judge ruled Monday, in incidents that took place during the height of the Central American nation's brutal...
Tags: Prosecution, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Politics, Government, Crime, Law and Justice
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