1: The decimation of our people , too , was reduced to a footnote -- if we were lucky -- in tomes about World War I , when more than one million Armenians were killed during the last days of the Ottoman Empire . 2: As Kim Kardashian , sister Khloe and their two cousins recently toured Armenia -- on the eve of the 100th anniversary of the mass killings , which is marked on April 24 -- they spotlighted a humanitarian crime that Pope Francis recently called  the first genocide of the 20th century .  3: Dawn MacKeen : 2015 marks 100th anniversary of slaughter of Armenians by Ottoman Empire . Kim Kardashian has used fame to spotlight this .
1: more than one million Armenians were killed 2: the mass killings 3: slaughter of Armenians by Ottoman Empire