Why the name "Siriel" ?

In Armenian, 'siriel' is the infinitive verb 'to love'.

The Armenian genocide (by the Turkish army between 1915 and 1918, during W.W.I) was actively ignored by governments at the time and even for many decades after and, even today, many governments attempt to avoid the subject, such is the case of the Turkish government.

It is a classical and important example of a crime against humanity which had been ignored, if not somewhat hidden, for a rather long time. To have this crime officially recognized as a genocide and to make people aware that it occured, it took the determined hard work of many world citizens and historians.

This media/network of world citizens is therefore named Siriel-Media in honor of the ignored victims and to denounce crimes against humanity that the mass media ignore.

( On a lighter note, I also discovered that the word 'siriel' means "child (or daughter) of the water" in one of the elvish tongues in the work of J.R.R. Tolkien "The Lord of the Rings".)

- Michaël Lessard,
webmaster & founder of Siriel-Media