MULTI-MEDIA WEBSITE DEDICATED TO ARMENIAN GENOCIDE SEES RECORD TRAFFIC
Earthtimes, UK
Oct 15 2007
NEW YORK, Oct. 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — With national news
coverage of the Armenian Genocide (1915-1923) reaching a fever pitch
this week on the eve of a U.S. House vote recognizing this crime
against humanity, the number of viewers that have visited the website,
to learn more about the 20th Century’s
first genocide has reached the 2 million visitor mark this week.
Translated into six different languages, the 6-year old site provides
provocative eye-witness and survivor stories, dramatic photographs
and a timeline that details the systematic deportations and massacres
of the Armenian people in the 20th century’s first documented genocide.
With archival footage taken by Armin Wegner, a German army medic who
was stationed in Turkey in April of 1915, and Peter Jenning’s historic
coverage of the Genocide in a special report in 2000 for ABC News,
serves as a definitive resource on this
tragic event.
Launched in 2001, theForgotten was a collaborative effort between
the Armenian National Committee of America and filmmaker Araz Artinian.
The website has been used as a resource in classrooms around the world
from Rome to the Philippines. Araz Artinian went on to launch another
site called 20 Voices, , which focuses on
the lives of survivors in the wake of the genocide.
For more information contact the ANCA at:
Armenian National Committee of America 1711 N Street, NW (202)
775-1918 [email protected]
Armenian National Committee of America