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KIM KARDASHIAN LAYS FLOWERS AT ARMENIAN MEMORIAL
Reuters
April 10 2015
YEREVAN, April 10
YEREVAN, April 10 (Reuters) - U.S. reality TV star Kim Kardashian,
visiting her ancestors' homeland of Armenia, placed flowers on
Friday at a memorial to the 1915 mass killings of Armenians by
Ottoman soldiers.
Wearing a long red dress, Kardashian laid red tulips near the eternal
flame of the Armenian Genocide Memorial Complex on the outskirts of
the capital Yerevan.
She and her sister Khloe then stood in silence in honour of the
victims and spent about 10 minutes near the eternal flame.
Kardashian arrived with her rapper husband Kanye West, their child
North West and Khloe on Wednesday and were greeted by hundreds of fans.
Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamyan received Kardashian and her family
in Yerevan on Thursday.
"It was an honor to meet the Prime Minister of Armenia, Hovik
Abrahamyan who expressed how proud they are that we are proud Armenians
and we have not forgotten our roots! #NeverForget," Kardashian wrote
on her Instagram account.
The 100th anniversary of the mass killings in World War One will be
commemorated by Armenia on April 24.
Armenia, some Western historians and some foreign parliaments refer to
the mass killings as genocide. Muslim Turkey accepts many Christian
Armenians died in partisan fighting beginning in 1915, but it denies
that up to 1.5 million were killed and that it amounted to genocide.
(Reporting by Hasmik Lazarian; Writing by Polina Devitt; Editing by
Timothy Heritage and Tom Heneghan)
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/04/10/people-kardashian-armenia-idUKL5N0X73Q020150410
Reuters
April 10 2015
YEREVAN, April 10
YEREVAN, April 10 (Reuters) - U.S. reality TV star Kim Kardashian,
visiting her ancestors' homeland of Armenia, placed flowers on
Friday at a memorial to the 1915 mass killings of Armenians by
Ottoman soldiers.
Wearing a long red dress, Kardashian laid red tulips near the eternal
flame of the Armenian Genocide Memorial Complex on the outskirts of
the capital Yerevan.
She and her sister Khloe then stood in silence in honour of the
victims and spent about 10 minutes near the eternal flame.
Kardashian arrived with her rapper husband Kanye West, their child
North West and Khloe on Wednesday and were greeted by hundreds of fans.
Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamyan received Kardashian and her family
in Yerevan on Thursday.
"It was an honor to meet the Prime Minister of Armenia, Hovik
Abrahamyan who expressed how proud they are that we are proud Armenians
and we have not forgotten our roots! #NeverForget," Kardashian wrote
on her Instagram account.
The 100th anniversary of the mass killings in World War One will be
commemorated by Armenia on April 24.
Armenia, some Western historians and some foreign parliaments refer to
the mass killings as genocide. Muslim Turkey accepts many Christian
Armenians died in partisan fighting beginning in 1915, but it denies
that up to 1.5 million were killed and that it amounted to genocide.
(Reporting by Hasmik Lazarian; Writing by Polina Devitt; Editing by
Timothy Heritage and Tom Heneghan)
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/04/10/people-kardashian-armenia-idUKL5N0X73Q020150410