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Start the Presses: Remembering the Armenian Genocide
Each year Armenians worldwide commemorate the murder of 1.5 million of their ancestors by what was then the Ottoman Empire in the time around World War I. Each year, the United States government – fearing the backlash of Turkish rulers – fails...
Tags: Adam Schiff, Government, National Government, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Politics
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Video: Schiff delivers speech on House floor in Armenian to honor genocide victims
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank), lead sponsor of the Armenian genocide resolution in Congress, delivered his remarks in Armenian on the House floor Wednesday as he honored the 1.5 million Armenians who were massacred in 1915 at the hands of Ottoman Turks....Tags: Adam Schiff, U.S. Congress, Turkey, U.S. House of Representatives, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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U.S. a nation of Islamophobes? Hardly [Blowback]
Three of Robin Abcarian's Perspective columns last week concerned the "new worries" of some American Muslims that the "torrent of post-9/11 harassment and hysteria will be repeated." Abcarian started writing about these "worries" even before the suspected...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Sports, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Islam, Times Square
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Serious problem
A serious problem will keep occurring in society as people are becoming hesitant to report it. Despite growing awareness of hate crimes, the share of those crimes reported to police has fallen in recent years as more victims of violent attacks...Tags: Criminals, Crime, Law and Justice
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Residents have eyes on Sinanyan
I read with some skepticism of Zareh Sinanyan’s change of heart in the matter of the disparaging YouTube comments he had made a few years ago (Zareh Sinanyan admits racist remarks, expresses regret,” Ron Kaye, April 21). I am glad he finally...Tags: Local Elections, Social Issues, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Genocide, Gays and Lesbians
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Across the Armenian-Turkish divide
In 2001, I wrote a story for the Los Angeles Times about April 24, the annual Armenian Day of Remembrance, that had this lead: "The Armenian genocide." That was it, the entire first paragraph. I was proud of it because it didn't say "the alleged...
Tags: Science and Technology, Entertainment Events, Turkey, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Genocide
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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: Turkey, Human Interest, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Genocide, Massacres
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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: Guatemala, Human Rights Watch, Mexico, United Nations, Justice and Rights
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Latino, black leaders unite after alleged hate crime in Compton
L.A. NOWA coalition of Latino and Black community leaders banded together on the steps of Compton City Hall Monday, seeking to unite the city in the aftermath of an attack that law enforcement has labeled a hate crime.... -
Feds now investigating alleged hate crimes in Compton
L.A. NOWThe U.S. attorney's office is considering whether to pursue federal civil rights charges against alleged members of a Compton gang arrested for alleged hate crimes against a black family.... -
Hate crimes suspected in vandalism at 2 Arcadia churches
L.A. NOWPolice are treating two separate incidents of church vandalism and small fires being set in Arcadia as potential religious hate crimes. Arcadia detectives said the first attack occurred either late Jan. 19 or early Jan. 20 at the Church of...... -
Kevin James returns to parking ticket controversy in mayor's race
L.A. NOWLos Angeles is in dire financial straits. Its traffic woes are mounting. Joblessness is high. But at Monday night’s mayoral debate, the five top candidates were repeatedly drawn into a discussion about a less weighty, but more perhaps more rage-...
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