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KIM KARDASHIAN TO PAY TRIBUTE TO VICTIMS OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE ON TRIP TO YEREVAN
Reality star, husband Kanye West and her family visit Armenia to mark
100th anniversary of the mass slaughter of ethnic Armenians in the
Ottoman Empire
Kim Kardashian, Kanye West and their daughter North at LAX airport, Los
Angeles on route to Armenia. Photograph: Broadimage/REX Shutterstock
Wednesday 8 April 2015 14.15 BST Last modified on Wednesday 8 April
2015 14.17 BST
Kim Kardashian will pay tribute to the victims of the Armenian genocide
on a trip to the country beginning today.
The Armenian-American reality TV star will be joined by her husband
Kanye West and her sister Khloe as she makes the journey to mark the
100th anniversary of the mass slaughter of ethnic Armenians in the
Ottoman Empire.
They will be followed by camera crews from broadcaster E! to film
several episodes of the reality series Keeping Up With The Kardashians,
but no official meetings or press conferences are planned.
Kardashian, West, their daughter North and several other members
of her family arrived at LAX airports Wednesday morning to begin
the pilgrimage to Armenia, where she will visit the Tsitsernakaberd
Memorial in the capital, Yerevan.
Her late father Robert was a third-generation Armenian American,
and on several occasions she has publicly supported international
recognition of the Armenians' systematic extermination at the hands
of the Ottoman government.
The US government, apparently wary of spoiling relations with Turkey,
is yet to join the 22 countries that have formally recognised the
event as genocide, although 43 American states have accepted its
status as such.
The word "genocide" was specifically coined and defined by Polish
lawyer Raphael Lemkin in 1943 to describe the extermination of ethnic
Armenians by Ottoman authorities in Turkey.
As many as 1.5 million people are thought to have been killed in
the mass slaughter, which Armenians say began on 24 April 1915,
when Ottoman security forces rounded up and arrested 250 Armenian
intellectuals in Constantinople, and continued throughout the First
World War. Turkey still denies that genocide is an appropriate term
for the killings.
In 2011, Kardashian broke from her usual frivolous image to write a
blog post calling on Americans to recognise Armenian genocide. "Until
this crime is resolved truthfully and fairly, the Armenian people
will live with the pain of what happened to their families and the
fear of what might happen again to their homeland," she wrote.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/08/kim-kardashian-to-pay-tribute-to-victims-of-armenian-genocide-on-trip-to-yerevan
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
Reality star, husband Kanye West and her family visit Armenia to mark
100th anniversary of the mass slaughter of ethnic Armenians in the
Ottoman Empire
Kim Kardashian, Kanye West and their daughter North at LAX airport, Los
Angeles on route to Armenia. Photograph: Broadimage/REX Shutterstock
Wednesday 8 April 2015 14.15 BST Last modified on Wednesday 8 April
2015 14.17 BST
Kim Kardashian will pay tribute to the victims of the Armenian genocide
on a trip to the country beginning today.
The Armenian-American reality TV star will be joined by her husband
Kanye West and her sister Khloe as she makes the journey to mark the
100th anniversary of the mass slaughter of ethnic Armenians in the
Ottoman Empire.
They will be followed by camera crews from broadcaster E! to film
several episodes of the reality series Keeping Up With The Kardashians,
but no official meetings or press conferences are planned.
Kardashian, West, their daughter North and several other members
of her family arrived at LAX airports Wednesday morning to begin
the pilgrimage to Armenia, where she will visit the Tsitsernakaberd
Memorial in the capital, Yerevan.
Her late father Robert was a third-generation Armenian American,
and on several occasions she has publicly supported international
recognition of the Armenians' systematic extermination at the hands
of the Ottoman government.
The US government, apparently wary of spoiling relations with Turkey,
is yet to join the 22 countries that have formally recognised the
event as genocide, although 43 American states have accepted its
status as such.
The word "genocide" was specifically coined and defined by Polish
lawyer Raphael Lemkin in 1943 to describe the extermination of ethnic
Armenians by Ottoman authorities in Turkey.
As many as 1.5 million people are thought to have been killed in
the mass slaughter, which Armenians say began on 24 April 1915,
when Ottoman security forces rounded up and arrested 250 Armenian
intellectuals in Constantinople, and continued throughout the First
World War. Turkey still denies that genocide is an appropriate term
for the killings.
In 2011, Kardashian broke from her usual frivolous image to write a
blog post calling on Americans to recognise Armenian genocide. "Until
this crime is resolved truthfully and fairly, the Armenian people
will live with the pain of what happened to their families and the
fear of what might happen again to their homeland," she wrote.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/08/kim-kardashian-to-pay-tribute-to-victims-of-armenian-genocide-on-trip-to-yerevan
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress