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    OTTOMAN BAND'S PARADE IN HOLLYWOOD CANCELED AMID ARMENIAN PROTEST

    L.A. Now (Los Angeles Times)
    September 29, 2011 Thursday 4:27 PM EST

    A planned parade with an Ottoman military marching band in Hollywood
    has been canceled amid uproar from Armenian groups.

    The permit for the parade, scheduled for Oct. 3 on Hollywood Boulevard
    between Highland and La Brea avenues, was pulled Wednesday, the
    Glendale News-Press reported, citing an official with the Los Angeles
    Police Commission.

    The reason for the cancellation was not immediately available.

    But the Armenian groups said the event was an affront because of the
    genocidal murders that took place from 1915 to 1923 when roughly 1.5
    million Armenians were killed by Ottoman-Turks. Turkey has refused
    to acknowledge the massacre as genocide.

    Some of the groups condemning the performance were the Armenian Youth
    Federation and Armenian National Committee, which called the march
    "tantamount to hate speech and harassment."

    Los Angeles City Council President Eric Garcetti and Councilman
    Paul Krekorian said in a joint statement that they were "pleased"
    the event was canceled.

    The "Armenian Genocide at the hands of the Ottoman Empire is a wound
    that continues to fester," they said in the statement.




    From: A. Papazian
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