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Article: "Screamers" Serj Tankian and Carla Garapedian Denounce Cancellation of UN Genocide Exhibition Mentioning Armenians.
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- April 10, 2007
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LOS ANGELES -- Following the UN Secretary General's request to remove a sentence referring to a million Armenians being murdered during the Ottoman Empire from the Aegis Trust exhibition "Lessons from Rwanda," and the exhibition's subsequent cancellation, Serj Tankian and Carla Garapedian have issued the following statement:
"We are very shocked by this decision by the Secretary General to remove mention of a historical event which is well-documented by thousands of official records of the United States and nations around the world, including Turkey's wartime allies, Germany, Austria and Hungary; by Ottoman court martial records; and by eyewitness accounts of ...