It's different, I'll give 'em that.
-Dan
Posted on 04/24/2005 11:46:06 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Actor Dean Cain joined hundreds of Armenian Americans marching in the streets of Hollywood on Sunday to mark the 90th anniversary of the mass killings of Armenians by Turks in the Ottoman Empire.
Wearing black T-shirts emblazoned with the words "We've Had Enough," and hoisting signs saying "Truth always prevails," the crowd marched down Hollywood Boulevard in Little Armenia while leaders released doves into the sky.
Many expressed their desire to have the killings recognized by Turkey and the rest of the world as a genocide.
"People were talking about losing two-thirds of their family, or their entire extended family," Cain told KCBS-TV. "So it's really inspired me to learn a lot more about it."
Ralph Winter, producer of the "X-Men" films, also marched in solidarity with the Armenians.
"This is something that we need to pay attention to and give respect to and not pass off, not ignore," he said.
The Armenian government says up to 1.5 million Armenians ultimately died or were killed over several years as part of a campaign to force them out of Turkey. Turkey does not deny that many Armenians died, but says that most were part of the general unrest during the collapse of the Ottoman Empire.
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Dean Cain is Armenian? Did he change it from Doean Caigorian?
-Dan
Maybe he just got lost, and ended up there.
At least the Germans have acknowledged their atrocities against the Jews. Not so the Turks. They still refuse to acknowledged the slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians. And the U.S. government doesn't press the issue with Turkey - we don't want to upset our good ally you know.
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