Several streets south of West Hollywood will be closed at various times on Tuesday for the Armenian Genocide March for Justice.
The march will begin at Pan Pacific Park at noon and end in front of the Turkish Consulate at 6300 Wilshire Blvd.
Wilshire from San Vicente Boulevard to Fairfax Avenue will be closed to traffic from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. There will rolling closures on the following streets during the march:
–Southbound on The Grove Drive to 3rd Street
–Westbound on 3rd Street to Fairfax Ave, and
–Southbound on Fairfax Avenue to Wilshire Boulevard.
The March 4 Justice is held to commemorate and demand justice from Turkey for the Ottoman government’s murder of 1.5 million Armenians, most of whom were living within the Ottoman Empire and its successor state, the Republic of Turkey. The genocide began in 1915 and extended through World War I.
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