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Sainthood for Armenians who died 100 years ago

Sainthood for Armenians who died 100 years ago

They prayed for the lost and the forgotten. They prayed for the martyrs and the survivors. They prayed for those who died and whose deaths have been denied.

On Sunday, the congregation of the Soorp Haroutiun Armenian Church near Windermere held a requiem for the estimated 1.5 million Armenians killed between 1915 and 1923. It marks the 100th anniversary of what the Armenians call genocide.

The disappearance of two-thirds of the Christian Armenian population from Muslim Turkey is explained by the Turks as both an exaggeration and a voluntary exodus brought on by World War I. If atrocities occurred, Turkish officials say, it was the byproduct of war. But they insist there was no...