article_snippet.sent: The decimation of our people, too, was reduced to a footnote -- if we were lucky -- in tomes about World War I, when more than one million Armenians were killed during the last days of the Ottoman Empire.
article_snippet.sent: Most of the time, though, the coverage was about how Armenians and Turks hate each other like cats and dogs, that Turks continue to deny that ethnic cleansing occurred, saying the Armenians had hatched a rebellion, and that the leaders had no choice but to deport the leaders from the leaders homes and put the leaders on the road that led to the leaders deaths.
article_snippet.sent: "Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?
article_snippet.sent: As Kim Kardashian, sister Khloe and their two cousins recently toured Armenia -- on the eve of the 100th anniversary of the mass killings, which is marked on April 24 -- their spotlighted a humanitarian crime that Pope Francis recently called "the first genocide of the 20th century.
article_snippet.sent: Suddenly, the poor landlocked country of Armenia was trending.
article_snippet.sent: Armenian Genocide is all over the news!
article_snippet.sent: Meanwhile, many Armenians continued to brainstorm about how to convince Turkey to acknowledge the truth about what happened, and how to persuade the President Barack Obama to label the killings "genocide," as he promised when first campaigning for the highest office.
article_snippet.sent: And every April 24, the day in 1915 when Ottoman Turks began rounding up the community's intellectual leaders, we mobilized.
article_snippet.sent: And We will do so again this year, holding candlelight vigils, concerts, and protest marches, while waving the Armenian flag, even though many of We have never been to the country We.
article_snippet.sent: Despite all the setbacks, the Armenians will continue to speak out, and hopefully find some hallowed ground, too, to stand with Ottoman Turks to heal.
article_snippet.sent: this year, this year took a reality star, famous for balancing a cocktail on her rump, to catapult her rump to the top of the news once again, like it was on December 15, 1915, when headlines like "Million Armenians Killed or in Exile," splashed across the New York Times and other international media.
highlights_snippet.sent: 2015 marks 100th anniversary of slaughter of Armenians by Ottoman Empire.