A month ago tomorrow was the
Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day. On the
Cal Poly campus a commemorative and educational display of vinyl panels placed upon the ground in the area of the
Dexter Lawn was set up for a day. I took these images with my iPhone in a high-glare environment which turned out so-so but will suffice for our purposes here.
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| Numbers encircled by red are estimated casualty counts by region. |
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| The numbers are subject to much contentious debate, but regardless, something terrible happened despite Turkish denials. |
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| More estimated death counts. Of this Hitler wrote in 1939 in smugly referring to his intended genocide of Poles, spoke thus of the Armenian Holocaust: "Who, after all, speaks of the annihilation of the Armenians?" As with so many other things, he was wrong about that, too. |
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| One panel was previously stolen according to organizers, but no mention of when and whom stole it is unknown: Turkish or Armenian thieves? All photos by Kim Patrick Noyes (all rights reserved). |
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