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Multi-Media Website Dedicated to Armenian Genocide Sees Record Traffic
NEW YORK, October 15 /PRNewswire/ --
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
+1-202-775-1918
anca@anca.org
www.anca.org
Web site: http://www.anca.org
http://www.20voices.com
http://www.theforgotten.org
