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September 27, 1915, Los Angeles Times, "Massacre of Armenians at Height of its Fury.: Confirmation of Slaughter is Received by Prof. Dutton; Report States Five Hundred Thousand Men, Women and Children Have Either been Killed by the Turks or Driven to the Desert to Perish of Starvation--Extermination of Non-Moslems is Programme Decided Upon.
The first Armenian families began to settle in the Los Angeles area starting in the late 19th century. Aram Yeretzian, a social worker and Protestant Christian minister who wrote a 1923 University of Southern California thesis on the Armenians of Los Angeles, stated that the first Armenian in Los Angeles arrived in around 1900.
The Armenian Genocide Martyrs Monument, better known as Montebello Genocide Memorial, is a monument in Montebello, California in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, dedicated to the victims of the Armenian genocide of 1915.
The city of Los Angeles itself had an Armenian population of 64,997 in 2000. [84] Several districts of Los Angeles have high concentrations of Armenians, particularly in San Fernando Valley: North Hollywood, Van Nuys, and Encino. [85] On 6 October 2000, a small community in East Hollywood was named Little Armenia by the Los Angeles City Council ...
The Armenian revolutionary movement: the development of Armenian political parties through the 19th century. Berkeley-Los Angeles: University of California Press. de Waal, Thomas (2003). Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan Through Peace and War. New York: New York University Press. ISBN 978-0-8147-1945-9.
The ceremony was held to coincide with the start of the killings, ending at the symbolic time of 19:15 with a bell ringing 100 times. Armenian churches around the world likewise rang a bell 100 times at 19:15 local time. The ceremony, which created around 1.5 million new saints, was the first canonization by the church in 400 years.
The Armenian genocide [a] was the systematic destruction of the Armenian people and identity in the Ottoman Empire during World War I.Spearheaded by the ruling Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), it was implemented primarily through the mass murder of around one million Armenians during death marches to the Syrian Desert and the forced Islamization of others, primarily women and children.
Garin K. Hovannisian (born 1986) is an Armenian American writer, filmmaker, and producer. He is the director of the award-winning films 1915 (2015), I Am Not Alone (2019), and Truth to Power (2020), and the author of the book Family of Shadows: A century of murder, memory, and the Armenian American dream.