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Armenia: Alternative Genocide Action

Thursday, April 24th, 2008 @ 07:29 UTC

by Onnik Krikorian

Countries:: Armenia, U.S.A., Turkey
Topics:: Diaspora, Ethnicity, History, Photography, Protest, War & Conflict, International Relations, Politics
Languages:: English

Hrag Vartanian remembers an unconventional action staged thirty-nine years ago by American-Armenian artist Kardash Onnig outside an Armenian Church in New York. The protest which called on ethnic Armenians to “Un-hate a Turk” was held on 24 April, the day Armenians worldwide remember the 1915 Armenian Genocide.

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