At the initiative of the Armenian-American Cultural Center, a memorial of the Armenian Genocide will be erected in Las Vegas. The City Council of the City agreed. The memorial will be placed in Sunset Park, one of the largest parks in Las Vegas with 57,000 sqm. It is the newspaper “Kantsassar” appearing in Aleppo (Syria) gives this information. The Armenian-American Cultural Center will undertake the financing of this memorial and its security, 200 000 dollars. And the tens of millions of tourists and residents of the capital of the world games, will be remembered that in 1915 nearly 2 million Armenians succumbed to the barbarism of the Ottoman Empire. Remember also that Las Vegas has a small Armenian community of nearly a thousand members.
Krikor Amirzayan