Memories still haunting on genocide anniversary
GLENDALE - The blood-stained carriage and the smoldering city still seemed fresh to the Rev. Vartan Dulgarian as he recalled personal memories of what many believe was the first genocide of the 20th century.
"The garbage wagon -- all the bodies just piled up -- the blood was flowing for three days," Dulgarian, 96, said Monday as he recounted memories of a massacre of Armenian in Izmir in 1922. The city on Turkey's Aegean coast, then held by Greeks, was set ablaze by invading Turks.
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