Multi-Media Website Dedicated to Armenian Genocide Sees Record Traffic

Multi-Media Website Dedicated to Armenian Genocide Sees Record Traffic

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, www.theforgotten.org 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, www.theforgotten.org 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, www.20voices.com, 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   anca@anca.org   www.anca.org  

Source: Armenian National Committee of America

CONTACT: Elizabeth S. Chouldjian, Communications Director of Armenian
National Committee of America, +1-202-775-1918

Web site: http://www.anca.org/
http://www.20voices.com/
http://www.theforgotten.org/

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